Greenwood Heights

Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn’s largest burial ground, is officially on the hunt for its newest in-house artist.

A group of local elected officials has joined the effort made by Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery to raise $34 million for the construction of its new Education and Welcome Center.

Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a revered holiday celebrated in many Hispanic cultures throughout Mexico and Latin America and is deeply rooted in pre-Hispanic tradition and Roman Catholicism.

For a brief time, the construction fence came down and the historic Weir Greenhouse — the centerpiece of the long-awaited Green-Wood Cemetery visitor center — was visible in all its restored beauty.

Green-Wood Cemetery is getting $4.5 million in capital funding as part of an “historic” $127 million investment in the city’s arts and cultural centers.