List of cemeteries in New York City
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This is a list of cemeteries in New York City.
Manhattan
- African Burial Ground National Monument[1]
- First Shearith Israel Graveyard (Chatham Square Cemetery), Chinatown, Manhattan[2]
- National September 11 Memorial & Museum[3], Manhattan
- New York Marble Cemetery[4], East Village, Manhattan, the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City
- New York City Marble Cemetery[5], East Village, Manhattan, the second oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City.
- Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Manhattan – Lillian Gish
- St. John's Burying Ground[6]
- Second Shearith Israel Cemetery, Manhattan[7]
- Third Shearith Israel Cemetery, Manhattan[8]
- Trinity Church Cemetery[9], New York City – John Jacob Astor IV, Cuba Gooding Sr., Alexander Hamilton, Ed Koch, Jerry Orbach
Brooklyn
- Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn – Lee Falk, Nella Larsen, Jackie Robinson, Mae West
- Friends Quaker Cemetery, Brooklyn – Montgomery Clift
- Green-Wood Cemetery[10], Brooklyn – Jean-Michel Basquiat, Richard Rodney Bennett, Leonard Bernstein, John Costelloe, Richard Isay, Frank Morgan, Samuel Morse, F.A.O. Schwarz, Boss Tweed
- Maimonides Cemetery, Cypress Hills, Brooklyn
- Mount Hope Cemetery, Cypress Hills, Brooklyn
- Salem Fields Cemetery, Cypress Hills, Brooklyn
- Washington Cemetery, Mapleton, Brooklyn
Brooklyn and Queens
Queens
- Acacia Cemetery, Ozone Park, Queens
- Bayside Cemetery, Ozone Park, Queens
- Beth El Cemetery (New Union Field), Ridgewood, Queens – Edward G. Robinson
- Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, Queens – Dom DeLuise, Una O'Connor, Joe Spinell
- Cedar Grove Cemetery (Queens, New York), Flushing, Queens
- Cold Springs Cemetery, near Carlisle Gardens
- Flushing Cemetery, Queens – Louis Armstrong[12], Dizzy Gillespie[13], Jo Van Fleet
- Hungarian Union Field Cemetery, Glendale, Queens
- Knollwood Park Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens
- Linden Hill Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens
- Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens
- Machpelah Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens – Harry Houdini[14]
- Maple Grove Cemetery, Kew Gardens, Queens
- Mokom Sholom Cemetery, Ozone Park, Queens
- Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens – Fyvush Finkel, Alexander Granach
- Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, Queens – Stella Adler[15]
- Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens – Alfred Eisenstaedt, Sergei Dovlatov, Alan King
- Mount Judah Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens
- Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens
- Mount Neboh Cemetery, Glendale, Queens
- Mount Olivet Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens
- Mount Zion Cemetery (Elmweir), Maspeth, Queens – Marvin Hamlisch
- New Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, Queens
- St. John Cemetery, Middle Village – Mario Cuomo, Geraldine Ferraro, John Gotti, Robert Mapplethorpe
- Union Field, Ridgewood, Queens – Bert Lahr
The Bronx
- Saint Raymond's Cemetery[16], Throggs Neck, The Bronx – Héctor Camacho, Billie Holiday, Frankie Lymon, Lois Nettleton, Dave Valentin
- Woodlawn Cemetery[17], The Bronx – Nellie Bly, Harry Carey, Miles Davis, E. L. Doctorow, Vernon Duke, Duke Ellington, Herman Melville, Otto Preminger, Joseph Pulitzer
Staten Island
- Baron Hirsch Cemetery[18]
- Cemetery of the Resurrection[19]
- Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island – Richard Jeni, Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Mount Richmond Cemetery, Staten Island (second cemetery of the Hebrew Free Burial Association – 23 victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
- Ocean View Cemetery, Staten Island
- Saint Peter's Cemetery, West New Brighton, Staten Island. Oldest Catholic Cemetery on Staten Island, dating from 1848.
- Silver Lake Cemetery, Staten Island (first cemetery of the Hebrew Free Burial Association)
- United Hebrew Cemetery, Staten Island
See also
References
- ^ "African Burial Ground National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ "Chatham Square Cemetery". shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ "Remains Repository at the World Trade Center Site". National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ "New York Marble Cemetery" (PDF). Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ "New York City Marble Cemetery" (PDF). Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ "James J Walker Park Highlights : NYC Parks". www.nycgovparks.org. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ "West 11th Street Cemetery". shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ "21st Street Cemetery". shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ {cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/nyregion/the-trinity-church-cemetery-in-washington-heights-holds-plenty-of-history.html?_r=0%7Ctitle=Resting Place for the High and the Low: The Trinity Church Cemetery in Washington Heights Holds Plenty of History|date=February 6, 2015|work=New York Times|author=Julie Besonen}}
- ^ "Green-Wood Cemetery". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. September 14, 2007. Archived from the original on December 24, 2007.
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- ^ Krebs, Albin (July 7, 1971). "Louis Armstrong, Jazz Trumpeter and Singer, Dies". www.nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
- ^ "Event: Flushing Cemetery Walking Tour at Flushing Cemetery". NYC Parks. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
- ^ Leduff, Charlie (November 24, 1996). "Houdinis' Plot Is Cleared Up, and Then Thickens". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
- ^ Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. McFarland. p. 11. ISBN 9781476625997.
- ^ "Church of Saint Raymond — Cemetery". straymondparish.org. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ "NPGallery Asset Detail Woodawn Cementary". npgallery.nps.gov. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ Aldermen, New York (N Y. ) Board of (1906). Proceedings of the Board of Aldermen. The Board. p. 1091. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ Feuer, Alan (October 8, 2008). "Awaiting a Burial, This Time an Actual One". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-11-10.
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