Okay, maybe it’s a little early in the morning for Kraftwerk, but this is a vid shot last night by Lost in Brooklyn on Flickr: “12.01.08 during the “conjunction” (a close configuration of planets/stars and the moon) of the early December’s crescent moon and the planets Venus and Jupiter from our view through Green-Wood Cemetery. [...]

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[Photo courtesy of megunski/GL Flickr Pool]
The view from Green-Wood Cemetery.

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Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights, who have been on top of the wretched energy scams being run all over Brooklyn (and the whole city for that matter), went to CB7 to give “a brief overview as to what the scams IDT Energy (and other ESCOS) have been perpetrating on our communities, how not to get [...]

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Per an email from Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights, who were among the first to sound the alarm about the scam-like practices which IDT energy is engaging all over Brooklyn: “our ever vigilante crew on 23rd St. (don’t mess with us man!) was on the tip as the boys and girls of IDT Energy (most [...]

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Last week, we featured utility scammers working around Greenwood Heights courtesy of warning from Aaron Brashear of Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights. We had this story and this follow up the very same day. In those cases, reps from IDT Energy were switching people from Con Ed without their consent. (We don’t have a love [...]

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Early today, we had the story of a scam being run by sub-contractors working for IDT Energy in Brooklyn that are switching people from Con Ed without their knowledge. Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights just emailed to say they are out working Greenwood Heights again this very minute:
If it could not be more IRONIC, an [...]

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Here’s a fairly scuzzy interesting story that came to us via Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights about a scam-like situation going on to get people to unwittingly transfer the electrical supplier from Con Edison to a company called IDT Energy. What’s at issue is what appears to be very slimy, if not unethical and possibly [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Lost in Brooklyn/Flickr]
The annual reenactment of the Battle of Brooklyn took place at Green-Wood Cemetery this weekend, as part of a series of events commemorating that bloody bit of local history. (In case you missed it, yesterday, Ruth Edebohls from CUE posted a fascinating item about the location of a burial ground [...]

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The latest installment of Forgotten New York takes a look at Green-Wood Cemetery environs (with the environs being in the image above). Here’s a sample:
For years, Green-Wood Cemetery was called just plain Greenwood Cemetery, on most maps, anyway, and though officially, it’s always been Green-Wood, the hyphen has begun to make more inroads of late. [...]

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If you enjoy reenactments of and events commemorating the Battle of Brooklyn, your time is almost at hand. The Battle was fought on August 27, 1776, turning places where we live, shop and recreate into, well, battlefields. The commemoration takes place on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at Green-Wood Cemetery. At 10:00 A.M. there’s a Tribute [...]

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[Photo courtesy of lostinbrookyn/GL Flickr Pool]
Here’s an image of the always lovely, yet somber, Green-Wood Cemetery, which is one of many new shots of that verdant and quiet place put into our GL Photo Pool by lostinbrooklyn. If you’ve never been to Green-Wood, it’s definitely worth a visit. There’s always more information about it here.

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Have you joined our GL Photo Pool on flickr yet and started contributing? We hope you will because we’d love to see your pics and to feature them on GL.

[Photo courtesy of itsnotthatfar/flickr]
Here’s a gorgeous shot of dusk in Greenwood Heights that landed in our flickr photo pool courtesy of itsnotthatfar.

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[Photo courtesy of lostinbrooklyn]
This is another shot from beautiful Green-Wood Cemetery, which is the final resting place of many, many people and would be one of the nicest parks in the city if it wasn’t, you know, a cemetery. As such, it’s still a very cool place. This came to us via our Gowanus Lounge [...]

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So, if the beach or a barbecue isn’t your thing on Memorial Day, how about a free concert in Green-Wood Cemetery? It’s green and peaceful and historic. The 10th Annual Concert takes place on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, at 2:30PM on what promises to be a gorgeous day. Here are some details:
Our annual concert [...]

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As we’ve noted, Greenwood Heights is having its “Third Annual Mega Stoop Sale” on 23rd Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. It takes place from 11AM-5PM. Per an email: “Houses will have lots of stuff for sale, at, of course, *very reasonable prices!* (or you can just haggle with everyone). On sale: Housewares, Tchotchkes, Books/CDs, [...]

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Have you joined our new Gowanus Lounge flickr pool yet? Please do. And don’t forget to tag the photos you’d like us and other readers to see by tagging them “gowanuslounge.”

This gorgeous slice of spring comes from Green-Wood Cemetery, which is about so much more than being a final resting place. It comes from Lost [...]

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There’s an unusual event taking place today at the site of what was called the Minerva Building. The former Robert Scarano building is coming back as eleven four-story buildings and this morning at 11 there’s a “building mock-up” test to show that the new buildings at Seventh Avenue and 23rd Street won’t obstruct the view [...]

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These dogwood trees come from Green-Wood Cemetery. They were shot by GL Contributor Deborah Matlack, who’s been providing us with superb shots of springtime glory all season long.

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One of the regular contributions we’ll be getting from the Center for the Urban Environment are posts about the great tours they run. Here’s this week’s inaugural post:
Underground Muses of Green-Wood: Sunday, May 4, 1:00- 3:30 pm – with Ruth Edebohls
Many famous and fascinating artists, actors and composers have made Green–Wood Cemetery their place of [...]

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[Photo courtesy Deborah Matlack/Matlack Photography]
We return to Green-Wood Cemetery courtesy of GL Contributing Photographer Deborah Matlack for this image of its lake in Spring. “Quietest place in town,” she writes. And, if it wasn’t, we’d be worried. All kidding aside, Green-Wood, which very popular as a park back in the day, is a very beautiful [...]

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[Photo courtesy of lostinbrooklyn/flickr]
One of the often unrecognized beautiful spots in Brooklyn in spring is Green-Wood Cemetery. This photo is from a full flickr set which can be viewed here. The blossoms are gorgeous.

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Mark the calenders for a very, very big stoop sale in Greenwood Heights. It’s the 3rd Annual 23rd St. Mega Stoop Sale (23rd St. between 6th & 7th Avenues). It will take place on Saturday, May 17 from 11AM-5PM. Per an email: “Houses will have lots of stuff for sale, at, of course, very [...]

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If you enjoy the idea of books and Green-Wood Cemetery, this could be your event: On Sunday (4/6), the Green-Wood Historic Fund will be presenting a book talk with author David H. Jones about his book Two Brothers: One North, One South. It will take place at 1:00 PM Green-Wood Cemetery’s Historic Chapel, which is [...]

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It’s time for another Green-Wood Cemetery photo contest. Details have been posted over at the brooklynian site about a contest for photos. (The contest is not connected to Green-Wood Cemetery.) Here are the details as posted:
We are working on the Spring 2008 version of Green-Wood’s bi-annual magazine The Arch. While we have a cache of [...]

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Sixth Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn

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