| Cypress Hills Cemetery | |
 Cypress Hills Cemetery Main Office |
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| Cemetery Details | |
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| Country: | USA |
| Location: | Brooklyn, New York |
| Website: | http://www.cypresshillscemetery.org/ |
Cypress Hills Cemetery was the first nonsectarian cemetery corporation organized in the Brooklyn/Queens area of New York City. It is located at 833 Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn. Established in 1848 east of the Ridgewood Reservoir, a section of the cemetery was designated as the Cypress Hills National Cemetery in 1862 as a military burial ground for soldiers of the American Civil War, which in 1941 received the bodies of 235 Confederate prisoners who died on Hart Island. [1] In Marvel Comics, Cypress Hill Cemetery served as the headquarters of the supernatural superhero team, The Midnight Sons.
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Features
The cemetery features such notable sights as:
- Cypress Hills Abbey, near the Cooper Avenue entrance. Locked lead doors; not open to the public.[2]
- Memorial Abbey
- Melrose Memorial Garden
- An urn garden
- War of 1812 Memorial
- Civil War Soldiers plot
Notable burials
- Vytautas Bacevičius (1905-1970), Lithuanian pianist and composer[3]
- Eubie Blake (1883-1983), jazz musician
- Homer Lusk Collyer (1881-1947), recluse and hoarder
- Langley Collyer (1885-1947), recluse and hoarder
- James J. Corbett (1866-1933), World Heavyweight boxing champion
- Hiram Cronk (1800-1905), last surviving veteran of the War of 1812
- Mock Duck (1879-1941), New York Chinese gang leader
- Monk Eastman, real name Edward Osterman, (1873-1920), notorious New York Gang leader
- Lee Falk (1911-1999), cartoonist, creator of The Phantom
- Bob "Death to Flying Things" Ferguson (1845-1894), major league baseball player, manager
- Gloria Foster (1933-2001), actress
- Kate Fox (1837-1892), spiritualist
- Maggie Fox (1833-1893), spiritualist
- Irving Lehman (1876-1945), Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals
- Rosetta Lenoire (1911-2002), actress, National Medal of the Arts winner
- George H. Mills (1843-1885), murderer
- Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Dutch painter
- Victor Moore (1876-1962), actor, vaudeville comic
- Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), Hall of Fame baseball player, the first African-American player in the major leagues
- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938), founder of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City
- Mae West (1893-1980), actress; second floor of the Cypress Hills Abbey
- Josh White (1914-1969), musician
- John B. Wood (1827-1884), journalist
References
- ^ "New Woe for Troubled Cemetery". New York Times. December 3, 2003. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05EFD91F3AF930A35751C1A9659C8B63. Retrieved 2008-03-30. "After years of mismanagement and controversy, Cypress Hills Cemetery, one of the city's largest, is out of receivership and emerging from bankruptcy. But new charges arose yesterday as one of its former court-appointed guardians accused another of trying to seize control through stealth and self-dealing. In court papers filed yesterday in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, the former receiver, Ravi Batra, claims that the former court-appointed managing agent installed its own employee as president of the cemetery's re-formed board of directors in a bid to gain control of the 200-acre (0.81 km2) cemetery."
- ^ Alex Witchel (May 8, 2000). "Blown Sideways, but Landing on Broadway". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/08/theater/blown-sideways-but-landing-on-broadway.html?pagewanted=all.
- ^ Cahiers Lithuaniens, 30 Nov 2005
Map
- Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn is at coordinates 40°41′21″N 73°52′31″W / 40.68904°N 73.875251°WCoordinates: 40°41′21″N 73°52′31″W / 40.68904°N 73.875251°W
See also
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- List of United States cemeteries
- List of famous cemeteries
- Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn
- Cypress Hills, Brooklyn
- Rural Cemetery Act
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