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_{Green-Wood Cemetery}

• Green-Wood Cemetery's President is Richard J. Moylen
• The Green-Wood Cemetery is one of the first rural cemeteries in the nation.
• It was founded in 1838 by notable New Yorkers who thought it was necessary to build a cemetery in Brooklyn because Manhattan had overcrowded churchyards.
• Green-Wood Cemetery has 478 acres of land filled with approximately 7000 trees and 560,000 graves.
• It became more popular after the transfer of DeWitt Clinton’s body from Albany.
• It even inspired a competition to design a “Central Park” for NYC.
• Before this cemetery even existed, it was the site of an important battle of American history: The Battle of Long Island.

• Since the creation of the Green-Wood Cemetery in 1838, it has been open for 178 years (- Present 2016).
• Green-Wood Cemetery was damaged by vandalism and Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
  • The vandalism on August 21, 2012 was one of the worst cases encountered in Green-Wood. Individual(s) was said to have jumped the fence and damage about 50 monuments and memorials.
  • Hurricane Sandy destroyed or seriously damaged about 300 trees, and damaged 210 gravestones and 2 mausoleums.

• Also in 2012, Green-Wood Cemetery became the new home of Civic Virtue after much effort and controversy.
• Another sculpture, the Angel of Music made by Giancarlo Biagi and Jill Burkee, was revealed and memorialized Louis Moreau Gottschalk, America’s first matinee idol and international music superstar.
• The Historic Fund’s Civil War Project, an effort to identify and remember Civil War veterans buried at Green-Wood, was born of the enthusiasm felt at the rededication ceremony of Civil War Soldiers' Monument. These early graves have either sunk into the soil, been damaged, or have their markers erased.