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Description: "The cemetery, incorporated in 1831, was the first non-sectarian burial place in New York City open to the public. The organizer was Perkins Nichols, with Anthony Dey and George W. Strong handling the conveyances. Its popularity was so great that another one--the New York City Marble Cemetery--was soon built just around the corner. Although there are many similarities between the two, they have always been independent of each other."
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Subject: Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: New York Marble Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
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Subject: Cemeteries , African American cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground Conservancy
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Queens
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "St. Michael’s Cemetery is situated in the borough of Queens in New York City. Established in 1852, St. Michael’s is one of the oldest religious, nonprofit cemeteries in the New York City metropolitan area which is open to people of all faiths. It is owned and operated by St. Michael’s Church, an Episcopal congregation located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan."
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Subject: Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: St. Michael's Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Queens
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Founded in 1838 and now a National Historic Landmark, Green-Wood was one of the first rural cemeteries in America. By the early 1860s, it had earned an international reputation for its magnificent beauty and became the prestigious place to be buried, attracting 500,000 visitors a year, second only to Niagara Falls as the nation's greatest tourist attraction."
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Subject: Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.), Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Green-Wood Historic Fund
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Brooklyn
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
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Subject: Moravian Cemetery (New York, N.Y.), Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Moravian Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Staten Island
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Ocean View Cemetery is a non-sectarian cemetery serving the needs of people of all religions and nationalities. We have been serving these needs for over 100 years and our cemetery is the resting place for over 50,000 loved ones."
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Subject: Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Ocean View Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Staten Island
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Congregation Shaare Zedek was founded on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1837. In the middle of the 19th century, Shaare Zedek acquired land in Ozone Park, Queens where it established Bayside Cemetery. Over the ensuing decades, and particularly during the massive waves of Jewish immigration into New York around the turn of the 20th century, Shaare Zedek sold the exclusive burial rights in the overwhelming majority of the cemetery’s land to approximately a hundred different burial societies, fraternal organizations, synagogues and other communal groups, with the purchasing organization undertaking a contractual obligation to maintain its area."
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Subject: Cemeteries , Bayside Cemetery (Bayside, New York, N.Y.)
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Congregation Shaare Zedek (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Queens
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
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Subject: Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: All Faiths Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Queens
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: Official site maintained by Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral for six Catholic cemeteries in and around the New York City area: Ascension Cemetery (Airmont, NY); Calvary Cemetery (Woodside, NY); Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, NY); Resurrection Cemetery (Staten Island, NY); St. Ann's Cemetery (Kingston, NY); St. Mary's Cemetery (Rye Brook, NY).
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Subject: Ascension Cemetery (Airmont, N.Y.), Calvary Cemetery (New York, N.Y.), Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, N.Y.), Resurrection Cemetery (New York, N.Y.), St. Ann's Cemetery (Kingston, N.Y.), St. Mary's Cemetery (Rye Brook, N.Y), Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Calvary & Allied Cemeteries
Borough: Queens, Staten Island
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Green-Wood Glossary is a collection of photos of surnames displayed on Green-Wood Cemetery gravestones that happen to be English words."
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Subject: Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.), Gravestones, Cemeteries , Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--History, English language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc., Pictures
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Thurman, Alex
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Brooklyn
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
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Subject: Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Linden Hill United Methodist Cemetery (Ridgewood, New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Queens
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Referred to as a haven of peace and beauty within a park-like setting, Maple Grove Cemetery is a gracious, historic 65-acre rural cemetery. It is conveniently located off Queens Boulevard and the Van Wyck Expressway in Kew Gardens, an urban village-like neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City. It is an active, non-sectarian progressive cemetery with an enduring reputation for providing caring, sensitive services and thoughtful options to honor loved ones."
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Subject: Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Maple Grove Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Queens
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "This project, and this site, is the work of Mary French, an anthropologist and museum & archives professional who has been exploring and researching the city’s cemeteries since moving to NYC in 2006. The project has collected information for about 350 cemeteries that is gradually added to this site, intended as a resource for researchers, genealogists, urban explorers, and other curious-minded folk."
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Subject: Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: French, Mary (Cemetery historian)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Situated on one of the highest points in Brooklyn, the Quaker Burial Ground began in 1849 (before Prospect Park was created) when nine acres of undeveloped farmland were purchased from four non-Quaker landowners."
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Subject: Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Friends Cemetery (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Brooklyn
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Established in 1854, The Woodland Cemetery is located at the intersection of Victory Boulevard and Highland Avenue, and is one of the oldest cemeteries on Staten Island"
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Subject: Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Woodland Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
Language: English
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Staten Island
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Canarsie Cemetery dates back to 1843 when John Remsen sold an acre of land surrounding what was then known as the Methodist Protestant Church of Canarsie, to the Town of Flatlands about 500 feet away from the gates of Canarsie Cemetery."
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Subject: Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Canarsie Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
Borough: Brooklyn
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Cypress Hills Cemetery was founded on November 21, 1848. It is chartered by New York State as a non-profit, non-sectarian, membership corporation. Under construction for near three years, it officially opened in 1851."
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Subject: Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Cypress Hills Cemetery (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Brooklyn
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Flushing Cemetery is a non-sectarian cemetery conveniently located in Queens, NY and is easily accessible by all major arteries. With over 75 countryside acres, this picturesque cemetery can accommodate burials and interment of cremains in traditional plots, chapel niches, or outside niche locations in our Memorial Garden."
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Subject: Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Flushing Cemetery (Flushing, New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Queens
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "New York's City Cemetery on Hart Island occupies 101 acres in the Long Island Sound on the eastern edge of the Bronx. Since 1869, prison labor is used to bury unclaimed and unidentified New Yorkers in mass graves that are inaccessible to the public. On March 12, 2014, the New York City Council introduced legislation to create a public park where citizens could visit graves. In preparation, the Hart Island Project acquired new maps and added GPS data to our on-line database of burials. This information now accompanies tools for submitting stories and images of the buried. The collection is known as the Traveling Cloud Museum."
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Subject: Hart Island (N.Y.), Anonymous persons, Mass burials, Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Hart Island Project
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Bronx
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The New York City Marble Cemetery was begun in 1831 and was the second non-sectarian burial ground in the City opened to the public. It was organized by Evert Bancker, Samuel Whittemore, Henry Booraem, Garret Storm and Thomas Addis Emmet. The cemetery was started shortly after the New York Marble Cemetery, one block away, had begun. It was laid out on some land belonging to Samuel Cowdrey, a vault owner in the other cemetery. Once again, Perkins Nichols contracted for the construction of the vaults of Tuckahoe marble. The first vaults were ready by the summer of 1831. The new organization received its own act of incorporation on April 26, 1832. Over the next three years the corporation acquired first the land in which the vaults were situated, and then adjoining lots, until it reached its present limits in 1835. The grounds now contain 258 vaults."
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Subject: Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: New York City Marble Cemetery
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
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Subject: Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Cedar Grove Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Queens
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Established in 1863, Woodlawn is an active, 400-acre non-sectarian cemetery — an oasis in an urban setting. More than 310,000 individuals are interred on its grounds and it attracts over 100,000 visitors from around the world each year."
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Subject: Woodlawn Cemetery (New York, N.Y.), Cemeteries
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Woodlawn Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Bronx
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