List of cemeteries in New York City

This is a list of cemeteries in New York City.

Manhattan

African Burial Ground National Monument, Civic Center[1]
First Shearith Israel Graveyard (Chatham Square Cemetery), Chinatown[2]
New York Marble Cemetery,[3] East Village, the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City
New York City Marble Cemetery,[4] East Village, the second oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City.
Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Midtown Manhattan – Lillian Gish
St. John's Burying Ground[5]
Second Shearith Israel Cemetery, West Village[6]
Third Shearith Israel Cemetery, Chelsea[7]
Trinity Church Cemetery,[8] Financial District – John Jacob Astor IV, Cuba Gooding Sr., Alexander Hamilton, Ed Koch, Jerry Orbach

Brooklyn

Cypress Hills Cemetery, Cypress Hills – Lee Falk, Nella Larsen, Jackie Robinson, Mae West
Friends Quaker Cemetery, Windsor Terrace – Montgomery Clift
Green-Wood Cemetery[9] – 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
Mount Hope Cemetery, Cypress Hills
Salem Fields Cemetery, Cypress Hills
Washington Cemetery, Mapleton

Brooklyn and Queens

Beth Olam Cemetery,[10] 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 – Edward G. Robinson
Calvary Cemetery, Woodside – Dom DeLuise, Una O'Connor, Joe Spinell
Cedar Grove Cemetery, Flushing
Cold Springs Cemetery, near Carlisle Gardens
Flushing Cemetery, Flushing – Louis Armstrong,[11] Dizzy Gillespie,[12] Jo Van Fleet
Hungarian Union Field Cemetery, Glendale
Knollwood Park Cemetery, Ridgewood
Linden Hill Cemetery, Ridgewood
Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery, Middle Village
Machpelah Cemetery, Ridgewood – Harry Houdini[13]
Maple Grove Cemetery, Kew Gardens
Mokom Sholom Cemetery, Ozone Park
Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens – Fyvush Finkel, Alexander Granach
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale – Stella Adler[14]
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing – Alfred Eisenstaedt, Sergei Dovlatov, Alan King
Mount Judah Cemetery, Ridgewood
Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Ridgewood
Mount Neboh Cemetery, Glendale
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Maspeth
Mount Zion Cemetery (Elmweir), Maspeth – Marvin Hamlisch
New Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale
St. John Cemetery, Middle Village – Mario Cuomo, Geraldine Ferraro, John Gotti, Robert Mapplethorpe
St. Michael's Cemetery, East Elmhurst[15]
Union Field, Ridgewood – Bert Lahr

The Bronx

Hart Island[16]
St. Peter's Church, Chapel, and Cemetery,[17] Westchester Square
Saint Raymond's Cemetery,[18] Throggs Neck – Héctor Camacho, Billie Holiday, Frankie Lymon, Lois Nettleton, Dave Valentin
Woodlawn Cemetery,[19] Woodlawn – Nellie Bly, Harry Carey, Miles Davis, E. L. Doctorow, Vernon Duke, Duke Ellington, Herman Melville, Otto Preminger, Joseph Pulitzer

Staten Island

Baron Hirsch Cemetery[20]
Cemetery of the Resurrection[21]
Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp – Richard Jeni, Cornelius Vanderbilt
Mount Richmond Cemetery, Richmondtown (second cemetery of the Hebrew Free Burial Association – 23 victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
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

References

"African Burial Ground National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
"Chatham Square Cemetery". shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
"New York Marble Cemetery" (PDF). Retrieved November 10, 2018.
"New York City Marble Cemetery" (PDF). Retrieved November 10, 2018.
"James J Walker Park Highlights : NYC Parks". www.nycgovparks.org. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
"West 11th Street Cemetery". shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
"21st Street Cemetery". shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
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.
"Green-Wood Cemetery". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. September 14, 2007. Archived from the original on December 24, 2007.
"Beth Olam Cemetery". shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
Krebs, Albin (July 7, 1971). "Louis Armstrong, Jazz Trumpeter and Singer, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
"Event: Flushing Cemetery Walking Tour at Flushing Cemetery". NYC Parks. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
Leduff, Charlie (November 24, 1996). "Houdinis' Plot Is Cleared Up, and Then Thickens". The New York Times. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. McFarland. p. 11. ISBN 9781476625997.
"St. Michael's Cemetery". Retrieved May 13, 2020.
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.
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. "St. Peter's Church, Chapel, and Cemetery" (PDF). www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
"Church of Saint Raymond — Cemetery". straymondparish.org. Archived from the original on February 28, 2014. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
"NPGallery Asset Detail Woodlawn Cemetery". npgallery.nps.gov. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
Aldermen, New York (N Y. ) Board of (1906). Proceedings of the Board of Aldermen. The Board. p. 1091. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
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.

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[1] "African Burial Ground National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved November 10, 2018.

[2] "Chatham Square Cemetery". shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved November 10, 2018.

[3] "New York Marble Cemetery" (PDF). Retrieved November 10, 2018.

[4] "New York City Marble Cemetery" (PDF). Retrieved November 10, 2018.

[5] "James J Walker Park Highlights : NYC Parks". www.nycgovparks.org. Retrieved November 10, 2018.

[6] "West 11th Street Cemetery". shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved November 10, 2018.

[7] "21st Street Cemetery". shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved November 10, 2018.

[8] 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.

[9] "Green-Wood Cemetery". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. September 14, 2007. Archived from the original on December 24, 2007.

[BethOlam-10] "Beth Olam Cemetery". shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved November 10, 2018.

[11] Krebs, Albin (July 7, 1971). "Louis Armstrong, Jazz Trumpeter and Singer, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved November 13, 2018.

[12] "Event: Flushing Cemetery Walking Tour at Flushing Cemetery". NYC Parks. Retrieved November 13, 2018.

[13] Leduff, Charlie (November 24, 1996). "Houdinis' Plot Is Cleared Up, and Then Thickens". The New York Times. Retrieved November 13, 2018.

[14] Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. McFarland. p. 11. ISBN 9781476625997.

[15] "St. Michael's Cemetery". Retrieved May 13, 2020.

[kilgannon-16] 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.

[17] New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. "St. Peter's Church, Chapel, and Cemetery" (PDF). www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org. Retrieved January 10, 2019.

[18] "Church of Saint Raymond — Cemetery". straymondparish.org. Archived from the original on February 28, 2014. Retrieved November 10, 2018.

[19] "NPGallery Asset Detail Woodlawn Cemetery". npgallery.nps.gov. Retrieved November 10, 2018.

[20] Aldermen, New York (N Y. ) Board of (1906). Proceedings of the Board of Aldermen. The Board. p. 1091. Retrieved November 10, 2018.

[Cutolo-21] 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.