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The Cemetery Belt
The Queens land rush began in 1847, following the passage of the Rural Cemetery Act by the State Legislature that authorized commercial burial grounds. Cemeteries of Brooklyn and those of Queens – St. Michaels, Luthern, Calvary, Cypress Hill, Mt. Olivet and Mt. Zion – collectively, became known as The Cemetery Belt.

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 * The 19-century Queens community grew rapidly. Picnicking families would come on the Astoria-Yorkville ferry, which, signs on the terminal proclaimed, was the "shortest route to St. Michaels, Lutheran, Calvary, Cypress Hill, Mt. Olivet and Mt. Zion Cemeteries." Restaurants, saloons and beer gardens flourished. The cemetery is "the principal industry of the people in the vicinity," reported Munsell's 1882 History of Queens County. The Yorkville–Astoria ferry stopped in 1936 after being replaced by the Triborough Bridge.

Cemeteries in Queens
Flushing
 * Flushing Cemetery (established 1853)
 * Cedar Grove Cemetery, Flushing (establish 1893; still active)
 * Mount St. Mary Cemetery, Flushing (founded 1862)
 * Old Town of Flushing Burial Ground
 * St. George's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Flushing

Elmhurst
 * First Presbyterian Church of Newtown Cemetery, Elmhurst
 * Reformed Church of Newtown Cemetery, Elmhurst
 * St. James Episcopal Church Cemetery, Elmhurst

Middle Village
 * Fresh Pond Crematory & Columbarium, Middle Village

Maspeth
 * Mount Olivet Cemetery, Maspeth
 * Mount Zion Cemetery, Maspeth

Middle Village
 * All Faiths Cemetery, Middle Village (Lutheran; incorporated 1852)
 * Calvary Cemetery, Maspeth & Woodside (Roman Catholic; established 1848)
 * Remsen Cemetery, on the border of Middle Village & Rego Park
 * St. John Cemetery, Middle Village

Glendale
 * Machpelah Cemetery, Glendale (Jewish)
 * Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale (Jewish)
 * Mount Neboh Cemetery, Glendale

Ridgewood
 * Mount Judah Cemetery, Ridgewood
 * Union Field Cemetery, Ridgewood

Elsewhere
 * St. Michael's Cemetery, East Elmhurst
 * Brinckerhoff Cemetery, near Fresh Meadows, Queens
 * Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens (Jewish, founded 1908)
 * Maple Grove Cemetery, Briarwood & Kew Gardens
 * Richard Cornell Graveyard, Far Rockaway

Brooklyn
 * Maimonides Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
 * Mount Hope Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
 * Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY

Cemeteries

 * Munsell (1882)

References linked to notes
 

 