Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn

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Cypress Hills Cemetery, was the first nonsectarian cemetery corporation organized in the Brooklyn/Queens area of New York City. It is located at 833 Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn. Established in 1848, a section of the cemetery was designated as the Cypress Hills National Cemetery in 1862 as a military burial ground for soldiers of the American Civil War, which in 1941 received the bodies of 235 Confederate prisoners who died on Hart Island.

[edit] Notable burials

Eubie Blake (1883-1983), jazz musician
Langley Collyer (1885-1947), recluse and hoarder
Homer Lusk Collyer (1881-1947), recluse and hoarder
James J. Corbett (1866-1933), World Heavyweight boxing champuion
Gloria Foster (1933-2001), actress
Uriah P. Levy (1792-1862), U.S. Navy Commodore, war hero
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Dutch painter
Victor Moore (1876-1962), actor, vaudeville comic
Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), Hall of Fame baseball player
Mae West (1893-1980), actress
Monk Eastman aka Joseph Morris (1873-1920), notorious New York Gang leader and eventual military hero.
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938), Founder of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City