Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens)
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Mount Carmel Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located within the Cemetery Belt in Queens, New York City. that opened in 1906. The main section is in Glendale, Queens, and has more than 85,000 occupied plots. A new section was opened in nearby Ridgewood. It was built as part of the Rural Cemetery Act, a New York City ban on new Manhattan cemeteries effective 1850, which led to the opening of new ones in Brooklyn and Queens that form an area collectively called Cemetery Belt.[1]
Famous burials
[edit]- Bella Abzug
- Jacob Adler
- Sholem Aleichem
- Joseph Baskin
- Mendel Beilis
- Benjamin J. Bialostotzky
- Jeanette Goodman Brill
- Abraham Cahan
- Roger C. Carmel
- Erwin Chargaff
- Betty Comden
- William Edlin
- Morris Feinstone
- Leo Frank
- Israel Freedman
- Iser Ginzburg
- B. Gorin
- Lazarus Joseph (1891–1966), NY State Senator and New York City Comptroller
- Alexander Kahn
- Leon Kamaiky
- Meyer Kanewsky
- Philip Krantz
- Harry E. Lewis
- Abraham Liessin
- Meyer London
- A. Lutzky
- Minnie Marx, mother of The Marx Brothers
- Sam Marx, father of The Marx Brothers
- Zvi Hirsch Masliansky
- Vladimir Medem
- N. B. Minkoff
- Max Pine
- Abe Reles
- Bernard Revel
- Morris Rosenfeld
- Harry Rogoff
- Nelson Ruttenberg
- Bennett E. Siegelstein
- George Tobias
- Mordecai Waxman
- Henny Youngman
- Szmul Zygielbojm
- Jean de Koven
References
[edit]- ^ Howard Kramer. "The Complete Pilgrim, Religious Travel Site".
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Mount Carmel Cemetery at Find a Grave
- A blogger's sampling of Famous Lower East Siders buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery
- Some info re other Cemetery Belt cemeteries
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