List of cemeteries in New York City

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Many notable cemeteries are (or were) located in New York City. In 1847, the Rural Cemetery Act authorized commercial burial grounds in rural New York state, and in 1852 the Common Council of New York City passed a law prohibiting new burials in the city, which then consisted only of Manhattan Island. [1] The two laws caused many cemeteries in Manhattan to be demolished, and spurred the development of a large number of cemeteries in Queens and Brooklyn, often called the "Cemetery Belt". [2]

Contents

Manhattan

Brooklyn

Brooklyn and Queens

Queens

The Bronx

Staten Island

See also

References

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  9. "21st Street Cemetery". shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
  10. Julie Besonen (February 6, 2015). "Resting Place for the High and the Low: The Trinity Church Cemetery in Washington Heights Holds Plenty of History". New York Times.
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  19. "Church of Saint Raymond — Cemetery". straymondparish.org. Archived from the original on February 28, 2014. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
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  23. Feuer, Alan (October 8, 2008). "Awaiting a Burial, This Time an Actual One". The New York Times . Retrieved November 10, 2018. 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.