• Source: Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens)

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.




Famous burials






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External links


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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