CATEGORY: GRAVESITES NYC

In the 19th century, when the city had few public parks and little public sculpture, cemeteries were major tourist attractions. In the 1860s, a trip to this cemetery in Brooklyn was as popular as one to Niagara Falls, when half a million people visited every year. In 1866, the New York Times even declared that this cemetery β€œis as permanently associated with the fame of our city as the Fifth Avenue or the Central Park.” Name the Cemetery.

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Answer: Green-Wood Cemetery

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