At Green-Wood, 9/11 victims lie beside New York City legends
Brooklyn’s iconic graveyard provides solace for families of victims
From Jean-Michel Basquiat to Henry Ward Beecher, DeWitt Clinton to Horace Greeley, many luminaries lie in rest at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery.
Like Basquiat, the famed painter and Brooklynite, who died at the tender age of 27, thousands of others were also taken from this earth far too early exactly 17 years ago.
Sept. 11, 2001 remains a bleak date in American history, but Green-Wood was able to offer solace to dozens of families who chose to bury and remember their loved ones at the landmarked cemetery in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.