Cypress Hills Cemetery

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Cypress Hills Cemetery
Main entrance of the Cypress Hills Cemetery
Details
Established	21 November 1848
Location	833 Jamaica Avenue, New York, New York
Country	United States
Coordinates	40°41′47″N 73°52′37″W / 40.6962812°N 73.8768394°W / 40.6962812; -73.8768394
Type	Private, non-denominational
Style	Rural cemetery
Size	225 acres (91 ha)
No. of interments	Over 400,000
Website	https://www.cypresshillscemetery.org/
Find a Grave	Cypress Hills Cemetery
Cypress Hills National Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NRHP reference No.	97001439
Added to NRHP	13 November 1997

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.