Cypress Hills Cemetery

This article is about the private cemetery at 833 Jamaica Avenue and along Cooper Avenue. For the national cemetery mainly at 625 Jamaica Avenue, see Cypress Hills National Cemetery.

Cypress Hills Cemetery
A road with an arch around it. The arch has a stone base and a tan brick with brown outline top of the arch that starts about 5 feet above the ground. At the very top of the arch it reads "1848 Cypress Hill Cemetery 833" with 833 being the street number.
Main entrance of the Cypress Hills Cemetery
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Established21 November 1848
Location
833 Jamaica Avenue, New York, New York
CountryUnited States
Coordinates40°41′47″N 73°52′37″W / 40.6962812°N 73.8768394°W / 40.6962812; -73.8768394
TypePrivate, non-denominational
StyleRural cemetery
Size225 acres (91 ha)
No. of intermentsOver 400,000
Websitehttps://www.cypresshillscemetery.org/
Find a GraveCypress Hills Cemetery
Cypress Hills National Cemetery
NRHP reference No.97001439
Added to NRHP13 November 1997
At Mae West's tomb

Cypress Hills Cemetery is a non-sectarian/non-denominational cemetery corporation organized in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City, the first of its type in the city. The cemetery is run as a non-profit organization and is located at 833 Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn in the Cemetery Belt on the border of both boroughs, and its 225 acres are divided by the Jackie Robinson Parkway. Cypress Hills Cemetery retains its two primary entrances at Jamaica Avenue (Cypress Hills, Brooklyn) and Cooper Avenue (Glendale, Queens). Cemetery of the Evergreens lies directly to the southwest.