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One of the first designed public landscapes in the United States, Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery was a favorite resort of New Yorkers throughout the 19th century, rivaling Niagara Falls as a tourist destination. Director of Horticulture Joseph Charap tells how Green-Wood has re-discovered its heritage as green-space for the community, re-inventing itself as an arboretum and as a center for environmental research to serve the living as well as dead.
