About Riverside Cemetery
Riverside Cemetery is a jewish cemetery near Saddle Brook, Bergen County, New Jersey. It lies about 0.7 mi northwest of Saddle Brook. The grounds sit at about 52 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 16 notable people buried here, including Isidor Isaac Rabi, Stanley Milgram and Ervin Drake. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 879718. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Di Chiara Funeral Home in Lodi, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 55 cemeteries we list in Bergen County, and 84 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Saddle Brook. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Riverside Cemetery
Among them: 2 musicians, 1 Nobel laureate, 1 scientist, 1 US representative, 1 World War I veteran.
- Isidor Isaac Rabi1898-1988American physicist
- Stanley Milgram1933-1984American social psychologist
- Ervin Drake1919-2015American songwriter
- Benjamin J. Rabin1896-1969American politician
- Tehilla Lichtenstein1893-1973American theologian
- Mitchell Fisher1903-1990American rabbi and lawyer
- Moshe Cotel1943-2008American pianist, composer, and rabbi
- Abraham H. Fromenson1874-1935Newspaper editor
- Alice Glazer1940-2020Early victim of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Elijah Gordon1865-1932Rabbi
- Gus L. Wolf1881-1965Art collector
- Ivar Levinsohn1870-1941
Show all 16 notable burials
- Jack Crystal1909-1963American jazz promoter and record dealer
- Paul Bleier1922-2018
- Philip Fox1914-1994American basketball referee
- Philip Wohlstetter1870-1918
People whose Wikidata entry gives Riverside Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
40.89300, -74.08173
What Riverside Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Saints Peter and Paul CemeterySaddle Brook, NJOrthodox cemetery0.5 mi
- Saint Marys CemeteryLodi, NJCatholic cemetery0.6 mi
- Passaic Junction CemeteriesSaddle Brook, NJJewish cemetery0.8 mi
- Lodi Burial GroundsLodi, NJCemetery1.0 mi
- Lodi CemeteryLodi, NJChristian cemetery1.6 mi
- Saint Nicholas CemeteryLodi, NJChristian cemetery1.7 mi
- Saint Peters CemeteryGarfield, NJOrthodox cemetery1.8 mi
- B'Nai Israel CemeteryElmwood Park, NJJewish cemetery1.9 mi
- Americus CemeteryElmwood Park, NJCemetery2.0 mi
- Saint Michael's CemeteryHasbrouck Heights, NJChristian cemetery2.1 mi
Funeral homes near Riverside Cemetery
- Di Chiara Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Lodi · (973) 779-2386
- Kugler Community Home-Funerals0.9 miFuneral home · Saddle Brook · (973) 478-2500
- Trinka-faustini Funeral Services1.1 miFuneral home · Maywood · (201) 487-3050
- Vander Plaat Memorial Home1.4 miFuneral home · Paramus · (201) 843-3100
- Aloia Funeral Home and Attentive Cremation Service1.7 miFuneral home · Garfield · (973) 340-7077
- Earl I Jones Funeral Home Inc1.7 miFuneral home · Hackensack · (201) 487-8822
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
Frequently asked questions
Is Riverside Cemetery a Jewish cemetery?
Our records list a Jewish affiliation, based on the recorded religion of the cemetery. Burial rules for people outside the congregation vary, so ask the cemetery.
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