Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens, New York)
Mount Carmel Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located in Queens, New York that opened in 1906.
The main section is in Glendale, Queens, and has more than 85,000 occupied plots. A new section was opened in nearby Ridgewood.
History
A New York City ban on new Manhattan cemeteries, effective 1850, led to the opening of new ones in Brooklyn and Queens areas that form an area collectively called Cemetery Belt.[1]
Over a dozen major Jewish cemeteries opened. Some of these[2] have web sites that allow searching for buried friends and relatives.
Famous burials
References
- ↑ Howard Kramer. "The Complete Pilgrim, Religious Travel Site".
- ↑ ex. www.MountHebronCemetery.com/search.asp
External links
- official web site
- A blogger's sampling of Famous Lower East Siders buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery
- Some info re other Cemetery Belt cemeteries
Coordinates: 40°41′57″N 73°53′22″W / 40.6991692°N 73.8893293°W
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