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Cypress Hills National Cemetery is a 18.2-acre (7.4 ha) cemetery located in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.It is the only United States National Cemetery in New York City and has more than 21,100 interments of veterans and civilians.
In 1902, during the construction of the Interboro Parkway through Cypress Hills, charges were laid of gross mismanagement by trustees who re-elected themselves each year without oversight, and who received a large income from the sale of burial plots but did not spend any of this on improvements to the cemetery.
This category contains people buried at the Cypress Hills National Cemetery, including the largest part at 625 Jamaica Avenue (1884) as well as the Union Grounds (1862) and Mount of Victory (1941) within the Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn.
Cemetery of the Holy Rood, Westbury, New York; Chesed Shel Emes Cemetery, Liberty; Cold Springs Cemetery, near Carlisle Gardens; Colden Family Cemetery, in the town of Montgomery. Columbia Cemetery, Columbia [2] Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn and Queens
Burials at Cypress Hills Cemetery, which straddles Cypress Hills, Brooklyn and Glendale, Queens in New York City. Subcategories.
First Shearith Israel Graveyard (Chatham Square Cemetery), Chinatown [2] New York Marble Cemetery, [3] East Village, the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City; New York City Marble Cemetery, [4] East Village, the second oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City. Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Midtown Manhattan
Cypress Hills Cemetery; Cypress Hills National Cemetery; F. Flatbush African Burial Ground; Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Complex; G. ... Washington Cemetery (Brooklyn)
In 1973, approximately 1,700 gravediggers at 47 cemeteries in the New York metropolitan area went on strike due to disagreements over the terms of a new labor contract. The strike, which initially only affected Cypress Hills Cemetery, began on April 12 and had spread to every cemetery whose workers were represented by the Cemetery Workers and Greens Attendants Union Local 365 by June 10.