Mount Zion Cemetery (New York City)

Mount Zion Cemetery
Mount Zion Cemetery
Details
Established	1893
Location	59-63 54th Avenue, Maspeth, New York City
Country	US
Coordinates	40°43′53″N 73°54′26″W / 40.7314828°N 73.9073548°W
Type	Jewish
Size	78 acres (320,000 m2)
No. of graves	>210,000
Website	Official website
Find a Grave	Mount Zion Cemetery

Mount Zion Cemetery is a large Jewish cemetery located in Maspeth, Queens, New York City. The first burial was in 1893, and as of 2015, more than 210,000 individuals had been buried there. It is noted for its memorial to those who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.^[1]

Its grounds cover approximately 78 acres,^[1] and are divided into hundreds of plots, or gates, by landsmanshaften, synagogues, or families.^[2]

Notable burials

Herman M. Albert (1901–1947), lawyer, New York State Assemblyman^[3]
Birdie Amsterdam (1901–1996), lawyer, judge, and New York State Supreme Court justice
William Cohen (? –1916), U.S. Army sergeant killed by troops of Pancho Villa on U.S. soil in the Glenn Springs raid^[4]^[5]
Bernard Drachman (1861–1945), rabbi^[6]
Morris Michael Edelstein (1888–1941), US Congressman^[7]
Isidore Einstein (1880–1938), federal agent in the Bureau of Prohibition^[8]
Berta Gersten (1894–1972), actress
Marvin Hamlisch (1944–2012), composer and conductor^[9]
Abraham Harawitz (1879–1935), lawyer, New York S tate Assemblyman, Municipal Court Justice^[10]
Lorenz Hart (1895–1943), lyricist^[11]
Naftali Herz Imber (1856–1909), poet, lyricist, and composer of Hatikva, the Israeli national anthem.^[12] Disinterred and reburied in Israel in 1953.
Mathilde Krim (1926–2018), medical researcher
Irving L. Levey (1898–1970), New York State Supreme Court justice
Edna Luby (1884–1928), actress and comedian^[13]
Theresa Moers (1893–1924), killed by the boxer Kid McCoy^[14]
Herman Weiss (about 1869–1934), New York assemblyman^[15]
Nathanael West (1903–1940), author and screenwriter
Eva Zeisel (1906–2011), industrial designer