Green-Wood Cemetery's Victorian graves and ghost lore

Green-Wood Cemetery, established in 1838 and designated a National Historic Landmark, is known for its extensive Victorian funerary art, rolling landscape, and graves of notable figures such as Boss Tweed and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The cemetery has long been the subject of local ghost stories and reported unexplained experiences by visitors and staff; those accounts are anecdotal and part of the site's folklore. Green-Wood also hosts guided historical tours and documented events about its architecture, monuments, and 19th-century cemetery culture.