Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure [Hardcover]

Jeffrey I. Richman (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 241 pages
• Publisher: Green Wood Cemetery; 1st edition (May 31, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966343506
• ISBN-13: 978-0966343502
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #270,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great capsule of New York City history!, May 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure (Hardcover)

I found this book to be an interesting chronology of the individuals who, at some point in time, were the bedrock (sorry about that) of New York's high society as well as its underworld (well, maybe I'm not so sorry).

In addition to its well prepared text, the book is a wealth of contemporary photographs and a rich collection of historically significant pictures and illustrations.

A major portion of the book is devoted to the magnificent monuments, memorials, and statuary that make Green-Wood the "buried treasure" that is it.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely wonderful !!!, December 27, 2001

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Linda Diglio (Brooklyn, New York United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure (Hardcover)

I purchased this book directly through Greenwood Cemetery. Greenwood is the most magnificent cemetery and this books uncovers so much of it's rich history. I live very close to it and visit it regularly. It's full of great photographs and you'd be wise to get yourself a copy. Jeff Richman thoroughly explores this Greenwood. I have a framed picture of the Niblo Lion monument hanging on my wall that Mr. Richman was kind enough to inscribe for me. Just one of his many beautiful photographs. Highly recommended.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Book, August 27, 2002

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John C. Martine "Book Junky" (Near Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure (Hardcover)

You don't really have to be from New York to buy this. It's a very nice history of the individuals who populate the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. I picked it up after my first trip[ to Green Wood and found it very useful on the second trip. Though it lacks much in the way of maps to find the markers were you planning to seek them out, it is lavishly illustrated with short biographical bits on the more prominent people there mixed into a history of the cemetery.