About Cypress Hills Cemetery
Cypress Hills Cemetery is a cemetery near Queens, Queens County, New York. It lies about 2.3 mi southeast of Queens. The grounds sit at about 151 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 116 notable people buried here, including Mae West, Piet Mondrian and Jackie Robinson. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 947976. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Carmel Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Glendale Walsh-LaBella & Son Funeral Homes in New York, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 49 cemeteries we list in Queens County, and 90 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 20 of the 49 listings in Queens County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Queens. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery
Among them: 16 actors, 15 writers, 8 Medal of Honor recipients, 6 artists, 6 baseball players, 6 journalists, 6 musicians, 6 US representatives.
- Mae West1893-1980American actress, singer, screenwriter, and writer
- Piet Mondrian1872-1944Dutch painter
- Jackie Robinson1919-1972American baseball player
- Nella Larsen1891-1964American novelist, librarian, nurse
- James John Corbett1866-1933American boxer
- Lee Falk1911-1999American comics writer
- Eubie Blake1887-1983American jazz pianist
- Josh White1914-1969American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist
- Helen Westley1875-1942American actress
- Victor Moore1876-1962American stage and film actor
- Alexander Crummell1819-1898American minister, academic and African nationalist
- James McCune Smith1813-1865American physician and abolitionist
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- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster1838-1912American poet, author, journalist, editor 1838-1912
- Monk Eastman1875-1920American mobster
- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg1874-1938Puerto Rican historian, writer and activist
- Rosetta LeNoire1911-2002American actress
- Tommy Davis1939-2022American professional baseball player and coach
- Andrew J. Russell1829-1902American photographer
- Capital Steez1993-2012American rapper
- Frances Ginsberg1955-2010American opera soprano
- Jesús Alou1942-2023Baseball player
- Morris Jacob Raphall1798-1868British-born American rabbi
- Tad Dorgan1877-1929American cartoonist
- William Ross Wallace1819-1881American poet
- Andrew Petersen1870-1952American politician
- Edmund H. Driggs1865-1946American politician
- Homer Lusk Collyer1881-1947American compulsive hoarder
- Jacob Ralph Abarbanell1852-1922American lawyer, author, and playwright
- Jefferson Monroe Levy1852-1924U.S. Congressman from New York
- Aaron Burr Rollins1818-1878American coroner, deputy sheriff
- Archibald M. Bliss1838-1922American congressman for New York
- Benjamin Levy1845-1921American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
- Bob Ferguson1845-1894Major League Baseball player, manager, umpire, executive
- Edwin Einstein1842-1905American politician
- Langley Collyer1885-1947American compulsive hoarder
- Peter Luger1866-1941German-American restaurateur
- Candy Nelson1849-1910Major League Baseball player
- Charles Bennett Ray1807-1886American activist
- Charles G. Halpine1829-1868Union Army officer
- Edmund Simpson1784-1848American actor and theatre manager
- Edward Simpson1824-1888United States Navy officer
- Emanuel B. Hart1809-1897American politician
- Giovanni Martino1852-1922Italian-American soldier
- Irving Lehman1876-1945American judge
- John Alexander Kennedy1803-1873New York police superintendent; provost; marshal
- John Brockington1948-2023Player of American football
- Joseph John Franklin1870-1940United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- William F. C. Nindemann1850-1913American sailor and explorer
- David Bruce1802-1892American printer and inventor
- George Samuel Dougherty1865-1931American law enforcement officer and writer (1865-1931); private detective for the Pinkerton Detective Agency / head of NYPD Detectives
- Harry C. Adriance1864-1934Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- John Cook1830-1859American abolitionist
- Theodore D. Wilson1840-1896American naval architect
- Albro Lyons1814-1896African American landowner
- Alexander A. Forman1843-1922Medal of Honor recipient
- Alexander Walters1858-1917American civil rights activist
- Bill Slater1902-1965American sports announcer
- Carrie Langston1873-1938American writer and actress
- Charles W. Sutherland1860-1943American newspaper editor and politician
- Charlotte B. Ray1813-1891African-American suffragist
- Cornelius Van Cott1838-1904American baseball executive, postmaster
- David Nunes Carvalho1848-1925Photographer
- Frederick Strange Kolle1871-1929German-American physician
- George Holland1791-1870British actor
- Henry Kiddle1824-1891American spiritualist
- Ivan Chabert1792-1859
- John G. Morrison1838-1897United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- John Steeple Davis1841-1917American illustrator of books
- Joseph C. Hibson1843-1911American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
- Mary Sheehan1842-1888(1842-1888) wife of Louis Julius Lindauer
- Nellie Carney1853-1887(1853-1887) wife of John Jacob Lindauer
- Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer1815-1866(1815-1866) German-American businessman
- Rufus L. Perry1834-1895American educator, journalist, and minister
- Sai Wing Mock1879-1941American mobster
- Alfred G. Badger1815-1892American flutemaker
- George Willis Bardwell1868-1937Artist 1868-1937
- Helen R. Stobbe1902-1982Geologist
- Henry Lee Hargrove1868-1938Professor of English and translator
- Herbert Raubenheimer1896-1978American football player and coach
- J. W. Watson1824-1890American poet, and Harper's contributor
- James H. Gribben1839-1878Medal of Honor recipient
- James Horton1840-1894
- Jenny Gertrude Freudenberg1888-1888
- Jerome B. Peterson1859-1943American newspaper editor, and federal employee
- John van Salee de Grasse1825-1868American doctor
- Julia Douglas Fay Waldenburg1844-1894American poet
- Kate Fox1837-1892Spirit medium
- Leo Merzbacher1809-1856German-American rabbi
- Louise Florence Webb1883-1943(1883-1943) wife of Jacob Henry Stark
- Margaret Fox1833-1893Spirit medium
- Max S. Freudenberg II1881-1881
- Sam Collyer1842-1904United States Army Medal of Honor recipient, boxer
- Thomas Holmes1817-1899American mortician
- William C. Gover1815-1891American coroner, politician
- Adrian Martense Suydam1825-1894Brooklyn millionaire
- Adrian Onderdonk1795-183119th c. Dutch inhabitant of Queens
- Andrew Jackson Allen1776-1853American actor and costumer
- Charles Thomas Parsloe1804-1870English actor and theatrical agent
- Elizabeth Francis Schomburg1878-1900First wife of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, born 1878, died 1900
- Frederick M. Kent1829-1857American actor
- Gertrude Tate1872-1962American teacher
- Henry Magnus Traphagen1809-1884Millionaire
- Herman Livingston Collyer1857-1923American physician
- Jackie Robinson Junior1946-1971Son of American baseball player Jackie Robinson
- Jacob Suydam1740-1811
- Jacob Suydam1773-1847
- James W. Lingard1823-1870Theatre manager and actor
- Julia Elizabeth Jones1800-1870Actress
- Lysander Thompson1817-1854English actor
- Margaret Clements Lockyer1832-1861English-American actress
- Mary Joseph Marshall1814-1894Wife of Albro Lyons
- Morris Phillips1834-1904American journalist and writer
- Robert M. Eberle1840-1912American actor and manager
- Robert Weeks Nathan1831-18881831 - 30 Dec 1888
- William Kemble1813-1870
- Willis Arthur Bardwell1840-1908American librarian, 1840-1908
People whose Wikidata entry gives Cypress Hills 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
40.69628, -73.87684
What Cypress Hills 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
- Mount Carmel CemeteryQueens, NYJewish cemetery0.2 mi
- Mount Lebanon Cemetery7800 Myrtle Avenue, Queens, NYJewish cemetery0.3 mi
- Mount Neboh Cemetery82-07 Cypress Hills Street, Queens, NYJewish cemetery0.4 mi
- Maimonides CemeteryQueens, NYJewish cemetery0.4 mi
- Mount Hope CemeteryQueens, NYJewish cemetery0.4 mi
- B'nai Jeshurum and Shereth Israel Cemetery2 Cypress Hills Street, Queens, NYJewish cemetery0.4 mi
- Hungarian CemeteryQueens, NYCemetery0.5 mi
- Machpelah CemeteryQueens, NYJewish cemetery0.5 mi
- Beth El CemeteryQueens, NYJewish cemetery0.5 mi
- New Union Field CemeteryQueens, NYCemetery0.5 mi
Funeral homes near Cypress Hills Cemetery
- Glendale Walsh-LaBella & Son Funeral Homes0.5 miFuneral home · New York · (718) 366-7200
- Werst & LaBella Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · Glendale · (718) 821-8777
- George Werst Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · Queens
- Lewis Monument Co0.5 miMonument dealer · New York · (718) 821-1775
- Schwille-D'Angelo Funeral Home0.6 miFuneral home · New York · (718) 821-2616
- N F Walker of Queens Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Woodhaven · (718) 296-4343
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
Where is Cypress Hills Cemetery located?
Cypress Hills Cemetery is at 833 Jamaica Avenue, Queens, NY 11208 in Queens County. GPS coordinates: 40.69628, -73.87684.
What are the visiting hours of Cypress Hills Cemetery?
The recorded hours are: Mo-Su 08:00-16:30. Hours can change on holidays, so confirm with the cemetery.
Related guides
- How Are Cemetery Plots Organized?Sections, lots, rows and graves explained, plus how to read a cemetery map and a plot deed.
- How Deep Is a Grave?Where "six feet under" comes from, typical depths today, and what state rules actually require.
- What Happens When a Cemetery Is Full?Closed and inactive cemeteries, who maintains them, and what it means for families with existing plots.
- What Does a Headstone Cost?Flat markers, upright headstones and monuments, materials, engraving, installation fees and the cemetery's foundation charge.