List of cemeteries in New York City

Although human burials in the area that would become New York City predate European colonial times, the first documented burial in New York City may have been that of English sailor John Colman in 1609 (whose actual burial site is lost to history).^[1]

In 1847, the Rural Cemetery Act authorized commercial burial grounds in rural New York state, and in 1852 the Common Council of New York City passed a law prohibiting new burials in the city (which at that time consisted only of Manhattan Island).^[2] The two laws caused many cemeteries in Manhattan to be demolished, and spurred the development of a large number of cemeteries in what was then empty land in Queens and Brooklyn, creating a region often called the "Cemetery Belt".^[3]

Hundreds of formalized burial locations have been established and disestablished in New York City; one 2020 research effort identified over 500 such sites.^[1] The cemeteries listed here should be limited to those satisfying general notability guidelines.