Editing Green-Wood Cemetery (section)

==== 25th Street gate ====
The main entrance to the cemetery, a double-gate located at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue near its northwestern corner, was built in 1861–65, though the entrance itself opened in 1862.{{sfn|Quennell Rothschild & Partners|Paul Cowie & Associates|2007|p=15}} It is composed of [[Belleville, New Jersey]] brownstone. The sculptured groups on Nova Scotia limestone panels depicting biblical scenes of death and resurrection from the New Testament including [[Raising of Lazarus|Lazarus]], [[Young man from Nain|The Widow's Son]], and [[Resurrection of Jesus|Jesus' Resurrection]] over the gateways are the work of sculptor John M. Moffitt.<ref name="encnyc" /><ref name="NYCL-0149">{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0149.pdf|title=Green-Wood Cemetery Gates|date=April 19, 1966|publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]]|access-date=July 28, 2019}}</ref> In between the two gateways is a clock tower in the [[Flamboyant]] style.<ref name="Reynolds p. 318" /><ref name="NYCL-0149" /> The tower measures {{convert|106|ft}} tall.<ref name="Reynolds p. 318" /> A cemetery office is to one side of the gate, while the chapel and reception room are on the opposite side.<ref name="Reynolds p. 318" /><ref name="NYCL-0149" /> A descendant colony of [[monk parakeet]]s that are believed to have escaped their containers while in transit now nests in the spires of the gate, as well as other areas in Brooklyn.<ref>{{cite web |title=BrooklynParrots.com: A Web Site About the Wild Parrots of Brooklyn |url=http://www.brooklynparrots.com/2006/03/greenwood-cemetery-parrots.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070909103704/http://www.brooklynparrots.com/2006/03/greenwood-cemetery-parrots.html |archive-date=September 9, 2007 |access-date=September 23, 2007 |quote=The beautiful Civil War-era gate to Greenwood Cemetery is spectacular in its own right; add vociferous parrots and you've got one of the most sublime, most surreal locales on the planet.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Pesquarelli |first=Adrianne |title=Gotham Gigs; Birdman |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-163984399.html |access-date=September 23, 2007 |publisher=[[Crain's New York Business]]}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} The article presents information concerning the year-round tours led by Steve Baldwin in Brooklyn, New York to the nests of parrots. Baldwin volunteers to lead walking tours to the nests of an extended family of wild Quaker parrots that escaped from a shipping crate at JFK International Airport in the late 1960s.</ref>

[[The New York Community Trust]] placed a Designated Landmarks of New York plaque on the gate in 1958, and the gate was designated an official [[New York City landmark]] in 1966.<ref name="nycland" />