List of cemeteries in New York City explained

This is a list of notable cemeteries in New York City.

Manhattan

• African Burial Ground National Monument, Civic Center^[1]
• First Shearith Israel Graveyard (Chatham Square Cemetery), Chinatown^[2]
• New York Marble Cemetery,^[3] East Village, the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City
• New York City Marble Cemetery,^[4] East Village, the second oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City.
  • Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Midtown Manhattan St. John's Burying Ground^[5]
• Second Shearith Israel Cemetery, West Village^[6]
• Third Shearith Israel Cemetery, Chelsea^[7]
• Trinity Church Cemetery,^[8] Financial District

Brooklyn

• • Cypress Hills Cemetery, Cypress Hills Flatbush African Burial Ground, Flatbush
  • Friends Quaker Cemetery, Windsor Terrace Green-Wood Cemetery^[9]
• Holy Cross Cemetery, East Flatbush
• Maimonides Cemetery, Cypress Hills
• Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, Bushwick
• Mount Hope Cemetery, Cypress Hills
• Salem Fields Cemetery, Cypress Hills
• Washington Cemetery, Mapleton
• Naval Cemetery Landscape Memorial park NAVY YARD

Brooklyn and Queens

• Beth Olam Cemetery,^[10] Brooklyn and Queens
• Cemetery of the Evergreens and Queens

Queens

• Acacia Cemetery, Ozone Park
• Bayside Cemetery, Ozone Park
  • • Beth El Cemetery (New Union Field), Ridgewood Calvary Cemetery, Woodside Cedar Grove Cemetery, Flushing
• Cold Springs Cemetery, near Carlisle Gardens
• Flushing Cemetery, Flushing^[11]
• Hungarian Union Field Cemetery, Glendale
• Knollwood Park Cemetery, Ridgewood
• Linden Hill Cemetery, Ridgewood
• Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery, Middle Village
• Machpelah Cemetery, Ridgewood^[12]
• Maple Grove Cemetery, Kew Gardens
• Mokom Sholom Cemetery, Ozone Park
• Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens
• Moore-Jackson Cemetery, Woodside
• Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale^[13]
• Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing
• Mount Judah Cemetery, Ridgewood
• Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Ridgewood
• Mount Neboh Cemetery, Glendale
• Mount Olivet Cemetery, Maspeth
• Mount St. Mary’s Cemetery,Flushing
  • Mount Zion Cemetery (Elmweir), Maspeth New Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale
• Remsen Cemetery, Whitepot
• St. George Churchyard Cemetery, Astoria
  • St. John Cemetery, Middle Village St. Michael's Cemetery, East Elmhurst^[14]
• Union Field, Ridgewood

The Bronx

• Hart Island^[15]
• Pelham Cemetery, City Island
• St. Peter's Church, Chapel, and Cemetery,^[16] Westchester Square
  • Saint Raymond's Cemetery,^[17] Throggs Neck West Farms Soldiers Cemetery,^[18] West Farms
• Woodlawn Cemetery,^[19] Woodlawn

Staten Island

• Baron Hirsch Cemetery^[20]
• Cemetery of the Resurrection^[21]
  • • Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp Mount Richmond Cemetery, Richmondtown (second cemetery of the Hebrew Free Burial Association Ocean View Cemetery, Richmondtown
• Saint Peter's Cemetery, West New Brighton. Oldest Catholic Cemetery on Staten Island, dating from 1848.
• Silver Lake Cemetery, Silver Lake (first cemetery of the Hebrew Free Burial Association)
• United Hebrew Cemetery, Richmondtown

See also

• 1973 New York City gravediggers' strike
• List of cemeteries in New York
• List of cemeteries in the United States

External links

• Inskeep, Carol. The Graveyard Shift – A Family Historian's Guide to New York City Cemeteries. . Ancestry Publishing. Orem, Utah. 2000.

Notes and References

1. Web site: African Burial Ground National Monument . U.S. National Park Service . November 10, 2018 . en.
2. Web site: Chatham Square Cemetery. shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. November 10, 2018.
3. Web site: New York Marble Cemetery . November 10, 2018 .
4. Web site: New York City Marble Cemetery . November 10, 2018 .
5. Web site: James J Walker Park Highlights : NYC Parks . www.nycgovparks.org . November 10, 2018 . en.
6. Web site: West 11th Street Cemetery. shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. November 10, 2018.
7. Web site: 21st Street Cemetery. shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. November 10, 2018.
8. News: Resting Place for the High and the Low: The Trinity Church Cemetery in Washington Heights Holds Plenty of History. February 6, 2015. New York Times. Julie Besonen.
9. Web site: Green-Wood Cemetery. 2007-09-14. National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071224184223/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-730429415&ResourceType=District. December 24, 2007.
10. Web site: Beth Olam Cemetery. shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. November 10, 2018.
11. Web site: Event: Flushing Cemetery Walking Tour at Flushing Cemetery . NYC Parks . November 13, 2018 . en.
12. News: Leduff . Charlie . Houdinis' Plot Is Cleared Up, and Then Thickens . November 13, 2018 . The New York Times . November 24, 1996 . en.
13. Book: Wilson . Scott . Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons. 3d . 2016 . McFarland . 978-1476625997 . 11 . en.
14. Web site: St. Michael's Cemetery. May 13, 2020 . en.
15. News: Corey Kilgannon . Visiting the Island of the Dead. A Rare Visit to New York's Potter's Field on Hart Island . . November 15, 2013 . January 10, 2019.
16. Web site: New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission . St. Peter's Church, Chapel, and Cemetery . www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org . January 10, 2019 .
17. Web site: Church of Saint Raymond — Cemetery . straymondparish.org . November 10, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140228073623/http://www.straymondparish.org/cemetery.html . February 28, 2014 . dead .
18. Web site: August 2, 1967 . Old West Farms Cemetery . August 13, 2022 . New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission . LP-0624.
19. Web site: NPGallery Asset Detail Woodlawn Cemetery . npgallery.nps.gov . November 10, 2018 . en.
20. Book: Aldermen . New York (N Y.) Board of . Proceedings of the Board of Aldermen . 1906 . The Board . 1091 . November 10, 2018 . en.
21. News: Alan. Feuer. Awaiting a Burial, This Time an Actual One . In section 37 of the Cemetery of the Resurrection, a Roman Catholic graveyard on the southern shore of Staten Island, there is an empty grave. Its epitaph is touching: "We love you beyond the moon." Its dates suggest a much-too-early passing: June 6, 1949, to May 26, 1999.. . October 8, 2008 . 2018-11-10 .