Soak Up Some Knowledge With a Green-Wood Cemetery Black History Month Trolley Tour

Step aboard a trolley for a guided tour through Green-Wood Cemetery and a celebration of the lives of some prominent Black New Yorkers.

In time for Black History Month, the ‘Black in Brooklyn’ tour winds through the scenic grounds to the resting places of history makers like Susan Smith McKinney Steward, a Weeksville resident and the first Black female doctor in the state, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jeremiah Hamilton, New York’s first Black millionaire.

The tour, led by Green-Wood Historian Jeff Richman, takes place on February 26 from 10 a.m. to noon. Tickets are $30, and $25 for members. Participants must be masked. If the tour does need to be canceled because of Covid concerns, tickets will be refunded. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.

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