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,[1] Menands (one of the oldest and largest in New York) – President Chester A. Arthur
- Assumption Cemetery, Syracuse
B
- Baron Hirsch Cemetery, Graniteville, Staten Island
- Batavia Cemetery, Batavia – Joseph Ellicott
- Bayside Cemetery, Ozone Park, Queens
- Beechwoods Cemetery, New Rochelle
- Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, Long Island
- Beth Moses Cemetery, West Babylon
- Beth El Cemetery (New Union Field), Ridgewood, Queens
- Beth Olom Cemetery, Brooklyn and Queens
- Breslau Cemetery, Lindenhurst
C
- Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, Queens
- Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn
- Cemetery of the Holy Rood, Westbury, New York
- Cold Springs Cemetery, near Carlisle Gardens
- Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn
E
F
- Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale – Aaliyah, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Malcolm X
- First Shearith Israel Graveyard (Chatham Square Cemetery), Chinatown, Manhattan
- Flushing Cemetery, Queens – Louis Armstrong
- Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo – Willis Carrier, Shirley Chisholm, William Fargo, President Millard Fillmore, Rick James, Kristen Pfaff, Red Jacket
- Forest Park Cemetery, Brunswick
G
- Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne – James Cagney, Babe Ruth
- Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery, Stillwater
- Goodleburg Cemetery, Wales
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn – Jean-Michel Basquiat, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Morse, F.A.O. Schwarz, William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, Richard Isay
- Greenwood Union Cemetery, Rye
- Grove Cemetery, Trumansburg
H
- Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, New Rochelle
- Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester – Louise Brooks, George Mogridge
- Hungarian Union Field Cemetery, Glendale, Queens
- Huntington Jewish Center Cemetery, Huntington
- Independent Jewish Cemetery Association, Sag Harbor
J
K
- Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla – Tommy Dorsey, Lou Gehrig, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ayn Rand
- Kings Park Jewish Cemetery, Kings Park
- Knollwood Park Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens
L
- Linden Hill Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens
- Locust Valley Cemetery, Locust Valley
- Long Island National Cemetery, Pinelawn
- 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
- Mokom Sholom Cemetery, Ozone Park, Queens
- Monfort Cemetery, Port Washington
- Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens
- Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island – several members of the Vanderbilt family
- Mount Albion Cemetery, Albion
- Mount Ararat Cemetery, Farmingdale
- Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, Queens
- Mount Golda Cemetery, Huntington Station
- Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens
- 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 Richmond Cemetery, Staten Island (second cemetery of the Hebrew Free Burial Association – 23 victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
- Mount Zion Cemetery (Elmweir), Maspeth, Queens
N
- National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York City
- New Montefiore Cemetery, West Babylon, New York
- New Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, Queens
- 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.
O
- Oakland Cemetery, Sag Harbor
- Oakwood Cemetery (Bay Shore, New York), 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
R
- Revolutionary War Cemetery, Salem, many veterans of that conflict.
- Rockville Cemetery, Rockville Centre, New York
S
- Saint Anthony's Lutheran Cemetery, Sanborn
- Saint Charles Cemetery, East Farmingdale
- St. James Church Cemetery, Hyde Park, New York (Dr. Samuel Bard, James Roosevelt I (father of POTUS FDR), et al)[2]
- Saint Peter's Cemetery, West New Brighton, Staten Island. Oldest Catholic Cemetery on Staten Island, dating from 1848.
- Salem Fields Cemetery, Cypress Hills, Brooklyn
- 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 (named by Washington Irving) – 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 – Astor family members, Blair family members, Alexander Hamilton
U
- Union Cemetery, Fort Edward
- Union Field, Ridgewood, Queens
- United Hebrew Cemetery, Staten Island
- United Synagogue Cemetery, Calverton
V
W
- Washington Cemetery, Mapleton, Brooklyn
- Washington Memorial Park, Mount Sinai
- Wellwood Cemetery, West Babylon
- West Hill Cemetery, Sherburne
- Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson – George Gershwin
- Witmer Road Cemetery, Niagara Falls
- Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx – Duke Ellington, Herman Melville, Joseph Pulitzer
- Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira – Samuel Clemens, Ernie Davis, John W. Jones, Ross Gilmore Marvin, Alexander Randall, Hal Roach, Lucius Robinson
- Woodlawn Cemetery, Syracuse, New York
See also
References
- ^ Howell, George Rogers & Tenney, Jonathan (Eds.) (1886). Bi-centennial History of Albany: History of the County of Albany, N.Y., from 1609 to 1886. New York: W. W. Munsell & Co. p. 645. Google Book Search. Retrieved on October 4, 2010.
- ^ "Old Gravestones of Dutchess County, New York". Retrieved 2016-11-25.