Cedar Grove Cemetery (Queens)

The cemetery occupies the former Spring Hill estate of colonial governor Cadwallader Colden.

[1] When Union Cemetery in Brooklyn closed in 1897, more than 20,000 bodies were disinterred and transferred to Cedar Grove Cemetery.

[2] As of 2009, Cedar Grove had recorded a total of 36,000 burials.

[3] Mount Hebron Cemetery was established in 1903 as the Jewish section of Cedar Grove Cemetery and is the burial site of several prominent participants in Yiddish theater.

[4] Cedar Grove was a filming location for cemetery scenes in the 1968 film, Bye Bye Braverman.