About Union Field Cemetery
Union Field Cemetery is a jewish cemetery near Queens, Queens County, New York. It lies about 2.9 mi east of Queens. It is operated by Congregation Rodeph Sholom. The grounds sit at about 144 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 26 notable people buried here, including Roy Cohn, Bert Lahr and Arnold Rothstein. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 968192. The nearest other listed cemetery is Machpelah Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Schwille-D'Angelo Funeral Home in New York, about 0.6 mi away. It is one of 49 cemeteries we list in Queens County, and 92 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 Union Field Cemetery
Among them: 6 writers, 3 business leaders, 3 US representatives, 2 actors, 1 artist, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 journalist, 1 musician.
- Roy Cohn1927-1986American lawyer
- Bert Lahr1895-1967American actor
- Arnold Rothstein1882-1928American mobster
- Robert Lansing1928-1994American actor
- Charles Frohman1856-1915American theatrical producer
- Nahum Meir Schaikewitz1849-1905Yiddish writer
- Daniel Frohman1851-1940American theatrical and film producer
- Fredericka Mandelbaum1825-1894American fence and gang boss of German origin
- Henry M. Goldfogle1856-1929American politician
- Samuel Dickstein1885-1954American politician
- Ann Brewster1918-2005American cartoonist
- Kasriel Hirsch Sarasohn1835-1905American publisher
Show all 26 notable burials
- Louis Israel Newman1893-1972American rabbi and author
- Abraham Baer Dobsewitch1843-1900Russian Hebraist and exegete
- Joshua Lionel Cowen1877-1965American inventor
- Ludwig Teller1911-1965American politician
- Abraham Hayyim Rosenberg1837-1925Rabbi and Judaic scholar
- Samuel H. Hofstadter1894-1970American politician in New York
- Sydney S. Cohen1885-1935American trade association president
- Alonzo Rothschild1862-1915American writer
- Arnold Munk1888-1957Publisher and author
- Marcus Neustaedter1871-1947American neurologist
- Bernard Kent Marcus1890-1954American banker
- Maurice B. Blumenthal1871-1948American lawyer
- Samson Jacob Rothschild1818-1899
- Sigmund W. A. Franken1888-1933American oral surgeon
People whose Wikidata entry gives Union Field 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.
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What Union Field 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
- Machpelah CemeteryQueens, NYJewish cemetery0.2 mi
- New Union Field CemeteryQueens, NYCemetery0.2 mi
- Beth El CemeteryQueens, NYJewish cemetery0.2 mi
- Mount Judah CemeteryQueens, NYJewish cemetery0.2 mi
- Hungarian CemeteryQueens, NYCemetery0.2 mi
- Mount Neboh Cemetery82-07 Cypress Hills Street, Queens, NYJewish cemetery0.3 mi
- Mount Carmel CemeteryQueens, NYJewish cemetery0.5 mi
- Knollwood Park CemeteryQueens, NYJewish cemetery0.5 mi
- B'nai Jeshurum and Shereth Israel Cemetery2 Cypress Hills Street, Queens, NYJewish cemetery0.5 mi
- Cypress Hills National Cemetery625 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn, NYNational cemetery0.5 mi
Funeral homes near Union Field Cemetery
- Schwille-D'Angelo Funeral Home0.6 miFuneral home · New York · (718) 821-2616
- Koch Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Ridgewood · (718) 366-1300
- George Werst Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Queens
- Werst & LaBella Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Glendale · (718) 821-8777
- Glendale Walsh-LaBella & Son Funeral Homes0.9 miFuneral home · New York · (718) 366-7200
- Paak Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Ridgewood · (718) 418-7225
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 Union Field 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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