The green option, also called “natural organic reduction,” transforms a body into nutrient-dense soil in just a few weeks.

The historic cemetery is running out of space for new graves, and plans to offer a more sustainable alternative to cremation ...

In what could be a first for our area, Green-Wood Cemetery is Brooklyn is planning to offer so-called "human composting." Some say it's an environmentally conscious way to care for the dead, but not ...

Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery is set to become the first on the East Coast to offer human composting.

Brooklyn’s chief cultural leaders came together at Green-Wood Cemetery on Monday to celebrate the cemetery’s coming Welcome and Education Center — and a handful of other city investments into ...

"Cemeteries are not just for the dead, they're for the living." Charlotte Canda was coming home from her 17th birthday party in the winter of 1845 in New York when she was thrown from her horse-drawn ...

GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY — Richard J. Moylan served as the president of Green-Wood Cemetery since 1986 and announced his decision to retire in 2025. As the head of one of the nation’s most storied ...

NAMING THE LOST Memorials (NTLM), along with City Lore, Great Small Works, Mano A Mano, and The Green-Wood Cemetery, held their fifth COVID-19 public art memorial activation and dedication ceremony on ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Decades before New York’s Central Park was created, Green-Wood Cemetery’s ponds, hills and winding paths provided not only a pastoral final resting place for the nation’s elite but ...