[3] The cemetery borders Brooklyn and Queens and covers 225 acres (0.91 km2) of rolling hills and gently sloping meadows.

It features several thousand trees and flowering shrubs in a park-like setting.

The Evergreens has a monument to six victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of March 25, 1911 who were unidentified for nearly a century.

In 2011, Michael Hirsch, a historian, completed four years of research that identified these victims by name (see § Group monument).

[6] The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 2007.