List of cemeteries in New York

This is a list of cemeteries in New York.

Cemeteries in New York

A

• Acacia Cemetery, Ozone Park, Queens
• Agudas Achim Cemetery, Livingston Manor
• Agudat Achim Cemetery, Rotterdam
• Agudath Achim Cemetery, East Setauket
• Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands (one of the oldest in New York) – President Chester A. Arthur
• Assumption Cemetery, Syracuse

B

• Bard College Cemetery, Annadale-on-Hudson – Hannah Arendt, Philip Roth
• Baron Hirsch Cemetery, Graniteville, Staten Island
• Batavia Cemetery, Batavia – Joseph Ellicott
• Bayside Cemetery, Ozone Park, Queens
• Beechwoods Cemetery, New Rochelle
• Bentley Cemetery, Lakewood – George Stoneman
• Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, Long Island – Joyce Brothers, Bernard Herrmann, Andy Kaufman, Martin Landau, Sidney Lumet, Abe Vigoda, Herman Wouk
• Beth Moses Cemetery, West Babylon
• Beth El Cemetery (New Union Field), Ridgewood, Queens – Edward G. Robinson
• Beth Olom Cemetery, Brooklyn and Queens
• Breslau Cemetery, Lindenhurst

C

• Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, Queens – Dom DeLuise, Una O'Connor, Martin Sheridan, Joe Spinell
• Cedar Grove Cemetery (Queens, New York), Flushing, Queens
• Cedar Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Newburgh – Eric Carr
• Cedar Lawn Cemetery, East Hampton – Joseph Brooks, Childe Hassam, Joseph Heller, Cliff Robertson
• Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn – John Bunny, William Hickey, Winsor McCay, Bill Robinson
• Cemetery of the Holy Rood, Westbury, New York – Margaret Brown, Terig Tucci
• Cold Springs Cemetery, near Carlisle Gardens
• Colden Family Cemetery, in the town of Montgomery.
• Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn and Queens – Eubie Blake, James J. Corbett, Lee Falk, Nella Larsen, Piet Mondrian, Victor Moore, Jackie Robinson, Mae West

E

• Evergreen Cemetery (Pine Plains, New York)

F

• Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale – Aaliyah, James Baldwin, Richard Barthelmess, Cab Calloway, Joan Crawford, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Robert Evans, Midhat Frashëri, Oscar Hammerstein II, Heavy D, Alberta Hunter, Jam Master Jay, William Moulton Marston, Otto Rank, Basil Rathbone, Ed Sullivan, Conrad Veidt, Cornell Woolrich, Malcolm X
• Ferndale Cemetery, Johnstown – Helen Broderick, Broderick Crawford
• First Shearith Israel Graveyard (Chatham Square Cemetery), Chinatown, Manhattan
• Flushing Cemetery, Queens – Louis Armstrong, Laurie Bird, Dizzy Gillespie, Jo Van Fleet
• Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo – Willis Carrier, Shirley Chisholm, William Fargo, Millard Fillmore, Rick James, Kristen Pfaff, Red Jacket
• Forest Park Cemetery, Brunswick
• Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn – Harriet Tubman
• Friends Quaker Cemetery, Brooklyn – Montgomery Clift

G

• Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne – Fred Allen, James Cagney, Dorothy Kilgallen, Sal Mineo, Babe Ruth
• Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery, Stillwater
• Good Ground Cemetery, Hampton Bays – Greg Giraldo
• Goodleburg Cemetery, Wales
• Green River Cemetery, Springs – Peter Boyle, Alan J. Pakula, Jackson Pollock
• Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn – Jean-Michel Basquiat, Richard Rodney Bennett, Leonard Bernstein, John Costelloe, Richard Isay, Frank Morgan, Samuel Morse, F.A.O. Schwarz, Pop Smoke, Boss Tweed
• Greenwood Union Cemetery, Rye
• Grove Cemetery, Trumansburg

H

• Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, New Rochelle
• Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester – Louise Brooks, George Mogridge, Johnny Palermo
• Hungarian Union Field Cemetery, Glendale, Queens
• Huntington Rural Cemetery, Huntington – Harry Chapin
• Independent Jewish Cemetery Association, Sag Harbor

J

• Jewish Association of United Brethren Cemetery, Sag Harbor

K

• Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla – Anne Bancroft, Wendy Barrie, Billie Burke, Paddy Chayefsky, Tommy Dorsey, Gloria Foster, Lou Gehrig, Al Hirschfeld, Jill Haworth, Danny Kaye, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ayn Rand, Soupy Sales, Gil Scott-Heron, Elie Wiesel, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
• Kinderhook Reformed Church Cemetery, Kinderhook – Martin Van Buren
• Kings Park Jewish Cemetery, Kings Park
• Knollwood Park Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens

L

• Lake View Cemetery, Ithaca – Carl Sagan
• Lake View Cemetery, Interlaken – Rod Serling
• Lake View Cemetery, Jamestown – Lucille Ball
• Linden Hill Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens
• Locust Valley Cemetery, Locust Valley, New York – Rocky Graziano
• Long Island National Cemetery, East Farmingdale – Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, Helen Kane, Wynton Kelly, Jules Munshin, Frank Silvera, Joe Simon, Zutty Singleton
• Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens

M

• Machpelah Cemetery, Le Roy
• Machpelah Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens – Harry Houdini
• Maimonides Cemetery, Cypress Hills, Brooklyn
• Maimonides Cemetery, Elmont
• Maple Grove Cemetery, Kew Gardens, Queens
• Melville Cemetery, Melville
• Middle Patent Rural Cemetery, Bedford – E. G. Marshall
• Mokom Sholom Cemetery, Ozone Park, Queens
• Monfort Cemetery, Port Washington
• Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens – Herb Edelman, Fyvush Finkel, Alexander Granach, Oscar Lewis, Barnett Newman, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Sholom Secunda
• Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island – Richard Jeni, Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Mount Albion Cemetery, Albion
• Mount Ararat Cemetery, Farmingdale
• Mount Calvary Cemetery, White Plains – Kevin Meaney
• Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, Queens – Bella Abzug, Stella Adler
• Mount Golda Cemetery, Huntington Station
• Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens – Alfred Eisenstaedt, Sergei Dovlatov, Alan King
• Mount Holiness Church Cemetery, Inwood – Robert Ludlum
• Mount Hope Cemetery, Cypress Hills, Brooklyn
• Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester – Susan B. Anthony, John Jacob Bausch, Hartwell Carver, Frederick Douglass, Frank E. Gannett, Myron Holley, Henry Lomb, Lewis Henry Morgan, George B. Selden, Hiram Sibley
• Mount Judah Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens
• Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens
• Mount Neboh Cemetery, Glendale, Queens
• Mount Olivet Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens
• Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Hawthorne – Will Eisner, Guido Fubini, Aline MacMahon, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Henry Morgenthau Sr., Lillian Roth
• Mount Richmond Cemetery, Staten Island (second cemetery of the Hebrew Free Burial Association – 23 victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

N

• Nassau Knolls Cemetery, Port Washington – Bobby Riggs
• National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York City
• New Montefiore Cemetery, West Babylon, New York – Herb Abrams, Morton Gould, Mae Questel, Tommy Ramone, Emily Remler, Ossie Schectman, Zecharia Sitchin
• New Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, Queens
• New Paltz Rural Cemetery, New Paltz – Floyd Patterson
• New York Marble Cemetery, East Village, Manhattan, the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City
• New York City Marble Cemetery, East Village, Manhattan, the second oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City.
• North Babylon Cemetery, Babylon – Jovan Belcher, Mario Puzo

O

• Oak Hill Cemtery, Nyack – Helen Hayes, Edward Hopper, James MacArthur, Don Pardo
• Oakland Cemetery, Sag Harbor – Nelson Algren, Spalding Gray, D. A. Pennebaker, James Salter
• Oakwood Cemetery, Bay Shore
• Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls – Annie Edson Taylor, Augustus Seymour Porter, Peter Buell Porter, Matthew Webb
• Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse
• Oakwood Cemetery, Troy – Samuel Wilson aka Uncle Sam
• Ocean View Cemetery, Staten Island
• Old Colonial Cemetery, Johnstown – many Revolutionary War soldiers
• Old Sloatsburg Cemetery, Sloatsburg
• Old Town Cemetery, Newburgh
• Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery, Moore's Mill

P

• Patchogue Hebrew Cemetery, Holbrook
• Pinelawn Memorial Park, Farmingdale
• Pleasant Lawn Cemetery, Parish
• Pound Ridge Cemetery, Pound Ridge – Neil Simon

R

• Rensselaerville Cemetery, Rensselaerville – Andy Rooney
• Revolutionary War Cemetery, Salem, many veterans of that conflict.
• Rockville Cemetery, Rockville Centre, New York
• Rose Hills Memorial Park, Putnam Valley – Lou Albano, Jackie Curtis
• Roslyn Cemetery, Greenvale – William Cullen Bryant, Frances Hodgson Burnett

S

• Sacred Hearts Cemetery, Southampton – Gary Cooper
• Saint Agnes Cemetery, Lake Placid – James B. Donovan, Artur Rodziński, Jack Shea, Kate Smith
• Saint Anthony's Lutheran Cemetery, Sanborn
• Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Manhattan – Lillian Gish
• Saint Charles Cemetery, East Farmingdale – Vincent Gardenia, Lenny Montana, Ray Sharkey, Peter Steele, Carol Ann Susi
• St. James Church Cemetery, Hyde Park, New York (Dr. Samuel Bard, James Roosevelt I (father of POTUS FDR), et al)
• St. John Cemetery, Middle Village – Emile Ardolino, Mario Cuomo, Geraldine Ferraro, John Gotti, Carmine Infantino, Robert Mapplethorpe
• Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Troy – Maureen Stapleton
• Saint Patrick’s Cemetery, Watervliet – Joe Alaskey
• Saint Peter's Cemetery, West New Brighton, Staten Island. Oldest Catholic Cemetery on Staten Island, dating from 1848.
• Saint Peter's Episcopal Cemetery, Lithgow – Lynn Redgrave, Natasha Richardson
• Saint Raymond's Cemetery, Throggs Neck, The Bronx – Héctor Camacho, Billie Holiday, Frankie Lymon, Lois Nettleton, Dave Valentin
• Salem Fields Cemetery, Cypress Hills, Brooklyn – William Fox
• Sandusky Cemetery, Sandusky, Cattaraugus County
• Second Shearith Israel Cemetery, Manhattan
• Shaarey Pardes Accabonic Grove Cemetery, East Hampton
• Silver Lake Cemetery, Staten Island (first cemetery of the Hebrew Free Burial Association)
• Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow – Elizabeth Arden, Andrew Carnegie, Walter Chrysler, Samuel Gompers, Washington Irving, William Rockefeller
• Sparta Cemetery, Ossining

T

• Third Shearith Israel Cemetery, Manhattan
• Trinity Church Cemetery, New York City – John Jacob Astor IV, Cuba Gooding Sr., Alexander Hamilton, Ed Koch, Jerry Orbach

U

• Union Cemetery, Fort Edward
• Union Field Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens – Roy Cohn, Bert Lahr, Robert Lansing
• United Hebrew Cemetery, Staten Island
• United Synagogue Cemetery, Calverton

V

• Vale Cemetery, Schenectady – Charles Steinmetz

W

• Washington Cemetery, Mapleton, Brooklyn
• Washington Memorial Park, Mount Sinai
• Wellwood Cemetery, West Babylon – Danny Leiner, Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg
• West Hill Cemetery, Sherburne
• West Point Cemetery, West Point – Ed White
• Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson – John Garfield, George Gershwin, Judy Holliday, Tony Randall, Ron Silver, Lee Strasberg
• Westhampton Cemetery, Westhampton – Budd Schulberg
• White Plains Rural Cemetery, White Plains – Ralph Waite
• Witmer Road Cemetery, Niagara Falls
• Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx – Princess Anastasia, Irving Berlin, Nellie Bly, Harry Carey, Miles Davis, E. L. Doctorow, Vernon Duke, Duke Ellington, Herman Melville, Otto Preminger, Joseph Pulitzer
• Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira – Ernie Davis, John W. Jones, Ross Gilmore Marvin, Alexander Randall, Hal Roach, Lucius Robinson, Mark Twain
• Woodlawn Cemetery, Syracuse, New York
• Woodstock Cemetery, Woodstock – Leonardo Cimino, Rick Danko, Levon Helm

Y

• Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay – Theodore Roosevelt

See also

• List of cemeteries in California
• List of cemeteries in the United States