Saint John's Cemetery, Queens

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Saint John's Cemetery
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Main Entrance at Metropolitan Avenue & 80th Street
Cemetery Details
Year established: 1879
Country: USA
Location: Middle Village, Queens
Coordinates: 40°42′54″N 73°52′01″W / 40.715, -73.8669
Type: Roman Catholic Cemetery
Owned by: Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, Staffed by Catholic Cemeteries
Website: http://www.cathcemetery-bklyn.org/

For the cemetery located in South Dakota see Saint John Cemetery.

Saint John's Cemetery is an official Roman Catholic burial ground located in Middle Village in Queens a borough of New York City. It is one of nine official Roman Catholic burial grounds to service the New York Metropolitan Area. Saint John's along with Saint Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale, Long Island are among the largest in New York. Since it's opening, Saint John's has been the resting place of various famous and infamous people in New York society, most famously being John F. Hylan (1868-1936), mayor of the city of New York from 1918-1925. The most notorious being John J. Gotti Jr. (1940-2002), the head of the New York based Gambino crime family from 1985-2002.

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[edit] Notable burials

[edit] Politicians

[edit] Organized crime

[edit] Others

  • Ignazio Alcamo (1873-1959), anti-Fascist author and social reformer
  • Charles Atlas (1892-1972), body builder
  • William Henry Morin (1868-1935) Spanish-American War, Medal of Honor
  • Anne Cropsey (1906-2000) Award Winning Grandmother
  • Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989), artist
  • Louis E. Willett (1945-1967) Vietnam War, Medal of Honor
  • Frank Christi (1929-1982), actor
  • Thomas Joseph Nally (1919-2007), WWII Navy Captain, FBI Special Agent
  • Gaspare Mastroianni (1859-1937), early Italian immigrant, thought to have taught other immigrant ethnic groups that the tomato was not poisonous in the small coal mining patches of the Pittsburgh region.

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