List of cemeteries in New York City

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]

Manhattan

• African Burial Ground National Monument, Civic Center ^[3]
• First Shearith Israel Graveyard (Chatham Square Cemetery), Chinatown ^[4]
• New York Marble Cemetery, ^[5] East Village, the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City
• New York City Marble Cemetery, ^[6] East Village, the second oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City.
• Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Midtown Manhattan
• St. John's Burying Ground ^[7]
• Second Shearith Israel Cemetery, West Village ^[8]
• Third Shearith Israel Cemetery, Chelsea ^[9]
• Trinity Church Cemetery, ^[10] Hamilton Heights
• Potter's Field (now Washington Square Park)
• Potter's Field at Randalls and Wards Islands (one on each island)

Brooklyn

• Cypress Hills Cemetery, Cypress Hills
• Flatbush African Burial Ground, Flatbush
• Friends Quaker Cemetery, Windsor Terrace
• Green-Wood Cemetery ^[11]
• Holy Cross Cemetery, East Flatbush
• Kings County Cemetery, also known as Kings County Farm Cemetery and Potter's Field (not to be confused with Potter's Field on Hart Island, Bronx), was located on Clarkson Avenue, East Flatbush
• Maimonides Cemetery, Cypress Hills
• Most Holy Trinity Cemetery (Brooklyn), 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, ^[12] 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 ^[13]
• Hungarian Union Field Cemetery, Glendale
• Knollwood Park Cemetery, Ridgewood
• Linden Hill Cemetery, Ridgewood
• Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery, Middle Village
• Machpelah Cemetery, Ridgewood ^[14]
• Maple Grove Cemetery, Kew Gardens
• Mokom Sholom Cemetery, Ozone Park
• Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens
• Moore-Jackson Cemetery, Woodside
• Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale ^[15]
• 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 ^[16]
• Union Field, Ridgewood
• Zion Episcopal Church (Douglaston-Little Neck, Queens)

The Bronx

• Hart Island, also known as Potter's Field (not to be confused with Potter's Field, Brooklyn ^[17]
• Pelham Cemetery, City Island
• St. Peter's Church, Chapel, and Cemetery, ^[18] Westchester Square
• Saint Raymond's Cemetery, ^[19] Throggs Neck
• West Farms Soldiers Cemetery, ^[20] West Farms
• Woodlawn Cemetery, ^[21] Woodlawn

Staten Island

• Baron Hirsch Cemetery ^[22]
• Cemetery of the Resurrection ^[23]
• 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

References

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7. "James J Walker Park Highlights : NYC Parks". www.nycgovparks.org. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
8. "West 11th Street Cemetery". shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
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.
11. "Green-Wood Cemetery". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. September 14, 2007. Archived from the original on December 24, 2007.
12. "Beth Olam Cemetery". shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
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14. Leduff, Charlie (November 24, 1996). "Houdinis' Plot Is Cleared Up, and Then Thickens". The New York Times. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
15. Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3d ed.). McFarland. p. 11. ISBN   978-1476625997.
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17. Corey Kilgannon (November 15, 2013). "Visiting the Island of the Dead. A Rare Visit to New York's Potter's Field on Hart Island". New York Times . Retrieved January 10, 2019.
18. New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. "St. Peter's Church, Chapel, and Cemetery" (PDF). www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
19. "Church of Saint Raymond — Cemetery". straymondparish.org. Archived from the original on February 28, 2014. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
20. "Old West Farms Cemetery" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. August 2, 1967. LP-0624. Retrieved August 13, 2022.
21. "NPGallery Asset Detail Woodlawn Cemetery". npgallery.nps.gov. 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.

External links

• Inskeep, Carol. The Graveyard Shift – A Family Historian's Guide to New York City Cemeteries. ISBN   0-916489-89-2. Ancestry Publishing. Orem, Utah. 2000.