Green-Wood To Get $500K For New Welcome Center, BP Announces

GREENW-WOOD CEMETERY — Green-Wood Cemetery will receive funding for a new welcome center, officials announced Tuesday.

A $500,000 capital grant from the borough president will be put toward a welcome center with classroom and community meeting space, the borough president said. The 20,000-square-foot facility is set to be built across the street from the cemetery's 25th St. and 5th Avenue entrance at a property the cemetery recently bought, according to a cemetery representative.

"A historic park dating back to the Revolutionary War deserves a truly state-of-the-art center," Borough President Eric Adams said. “We are so excited that we are announcing a $500,000 project to go to the visitor centers here. This is one of our most historic landmarks."

“As we see the skyline is changing in Brooklyn, we must remember within the crevices of the skyline, there are real places that hold the secrets to Brooklyn’s past, and we’re glad to be a part of it,” the borough president added.

Richard Moylan, Green-Wood Cemetery's president, said he was "very grateful" for the cash the cemetery is getting from Adams.

"This is all very exciting," he said. "It’ll be a welcome center for the people of Brooklyn, New York City and the world to learn about Green-Wood and Brooklyn and New York City before they come out here and experience what’s in our 478 acres.”

“What we do here is really meaningful to the Brooklyn and New York City," said Moylan. "We will always be a cemetery, we will always bury people, but we’re much more than that.”

The cemetery— which spans Kensington, Windsor Terrace, South Slope, Sunset Park and other neighborhoods —attracted 330,000 visitors in 2018, according to the borough president. The cemetery hopes to break ground on the project in 2021 and complete it in 2022.