Quaker Cemetery, Prospect Park

GGP: 1st Aug 2005 - 14:24 GMT

I love this shot, with its magical colorations. And I didn't know that about Monty Clift!

Peter: 1st Aug 2005 - 14:30 GMT

i was in p. park the other day, looking for the place and rather fortuitously happened upon a quaker who filled me in on the whereabouts and tons of backstory... yay brooklyn!

kc: 4th Aug 2005 - 02:18 GMT

It's looking very pretty. I took a walking tour there once, but they wouldn't show the grave...alas. Don't know why I wanted to see it, but I did. I think Basquiat's in Greenwood, I like that too.

Barbara Wagoner: 9th Aug 2005 - 18:21 GMT

I have relatives buried here and wonder who would I contact to be able to enter the cemetary.

GGP: 9th Aug 2005 - 20:08 GMT

Barbara, you might start by contacting the Prospect Park Alliance. I would imagine someone there could hook you up with the appropriate parties.

GGP: 9th Aug 2005 - 20:09 GMT

www.prospectpark.org/

Roger: 14th Sep 2005 - 02:15 GMT

If anyone knows of upcoming tours, I would be greatly interested.

Thanks.

roger2229427@yahoo.com

John: 29th Sep 2005 - 14:52 GMT

To gain entrance to the Cemetary, I would actually contect the Friends before I would contact the park. As far as I know, the cemetary is controlled by the Friends.
From time to time they take volunteers to go and maintain the area and you don't have to be a member of the meeting to join them.

BROOKLYN FRIENDS MEETING
110 Schermerhorn Street
Brooklyn, NY, 11202
(212)777-8866
www.brooklynmeeting.org

jamie: 18th Oct 2005 - 21:17 GMT

quaker oats! quaker oats!
flying kites and sailing boats
riding bikes a wearing coats
eating chips and loving goats

Peter: 19th Oct 2005 - 23:29 GMT

milk of goats! milk of goats!
milk of goats in my quaker oats!

jamie, i love your poetry. i hope you finally got something to eat when you were so bloody pissed!

Jamie: 21st Nov 2005 - 13:02 GMT

heh, just seen this for the first time. funnily enough, speaking of food. it's lunchtime and i'm off to bag me some chips

lynn from chicopee ma.: 22nd Jan 2006 - 04:46 GMT

I LOVE CEMETARIES, THEY ARE SO PEACEFUL AND I FEEL THE PRESENCE OF GOD WHEN I VISIT THEM.

john higginsi wonder if the : 1st Apr 2006 - 03:46 GMT

iwonder if any of an old dutch family named drake are buried in this cemetery

Peggy: 2nd Jul 2006 - 03:08 GMT

To Barbara Wagoner
I too have relatives buried in Prospect. First you need to call Friends in Manhattan and make an appointment with them to have someone meet you at the cemetery. When you call, be sure to get the info on where your relative is buried because from what I've been told, there are two sides or sections. pluvera@optonline.net

ROBERT: 14th Jan 2007 - 07:33 GMT

I LIVE ACROSS THE STREET FROM PROSPECT PARK AND WAS JUST WATCHING MONTY CLIFT BIOGRAPHY AND IT MENTIONED THE CEMETERY. WAS MY PARTNER AND I SHOCKED AND HAPPY CLIFT IS NEAR US. I WISH I COULD ENTER THE CEMETERY. GREENWOOD CEMETERY IS ALSO FULL OF FAMOUS PEOPLE. AND PEACEFUL AS WELL. LEONARD BERNSTEIN IS BURIED THERE AND BASQUAT

Madeline: 1st Mar 2007 - 18:35 GMT

I'm going to try and find his grave this weekend. I'll let you know if I manage to find the Quaker cemetary.

Me: 5th May 2007 - 03:47 GMT

The cemetery in Prospect Park has been used for decades by devil worshipers.
When I was a kid, a few friends & I found dead chickens & voodoo dolls in this cemetery. We would watch from across the road as they would walk around with torches
I'm sure they still use this place for their worship
BTW -I have lived in this area for 40yrs - not like you yuppie scum invaders!

Peter: 7th May 2007 - 16:10 GMT

not so much "devil worshipers" as Santeria, id imagine...

Kelly: 8th Mar 2008 - 01:32 GMT

Did yall see the story about Brooklyn Geist on Curbed? apparently theres some all girl ghost hunting group that got EVP recordings from this cemetery, weird stuff.

ppg: 18th Apr 2008 - 02:41 GMT

You still can find dead chickens and santeria things in this area, just a bit further up the road, heading into the ravine.

Are new people still buried here? It's beautiful and peaceful, I'd love to become a Quaker to be buried there.

YoYo: 4th May 2008 - 05:12 GMT

I'll never forget coming upon this cemetery as a child with my brother. While exploring Prospect park we just happen to come across it. We were in awe. My brother and I tried to climb a fence to enter it when Lo and behold a man with a shotgun bolted out of I don't know where and ran after us. He scared the S*&t out of us. We never went near the cemetery again.

Brian Donahue: 25th Feb 2009 - 14:53 GMT

In the sixties we would climb into the cemetary and get high have sex then piss on the graves. A true story.

Non-yuppie scum, non-invading, returnin' brooklyn bum: 19th May 2009 - 14:20 GMT

I remember folk setting fishing line across the paths near the cemetery to deter off-roaders. Brutal and decidedly un-quaker behavior. As for Devil worshipers, I really don't think that they do much there these days. I'd love to check it out again. Pity they don't treat aboriginal grounds the same way, you know, build a park around 'em.