Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn

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 east of the Ridgewood Reservoir, 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. ^[1]

[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 champion
Daniel Daly (1873-1937), USMC, Sergeant Major, two Medals of Honor
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, the first African-American player in the major leagues
Mae West (1893-1980), actress
Monk Eastman aka Joseph Morris (1873-1920), notorious New York Gang leader and eventual military hero.
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938), founder of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City<b
John B. Wood (1827 - 1884), journalist

^ "New Woe for Troubled Cemetery", New York Times, December 3, 2003. Retrieved on 2008-03-30. "After years of mismanagement and controversy, Cypress Hills Cemetery, one of the city's largest, is out of receivership and emerging from bankruptcy. But new charges arose yesterday as one of its former court-appointed guardians accused another of trying to seize control through stealth and self-dealing. In court papers filed yesterday in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, the former receiver, Ravi Batra, claims that the former court-appointed managing agent installed its own employee as president of the cemetery's re-formed board of directors in a bid to gain control of the 200-acre cemetery."