Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens) Explained

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.

History

The Rural Cemetery Act, a New York City ban on new Manhattan cemeteries effective 1850, led to the opening of new ones in Brooklyn and Queens areas that form an area collectively called Cemetery Belt.^[1]

Over a dozen major Jewish cemeteries opened. Some of these^[2] have web sites that allow searching for buried friends and relatives.

External links

• • • 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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Notes and References

1. Web site: The Complete Pilgrim, Religious Travel Site . Howard Kramer.
2. ex. www.MountHebronCemetery.com/search.asp