Queens: GLENDALE

tombstone images online. A fee charged. [April 2010]

Hungarian Union Field: (5 names only) 8299 Cypress Avenue at Cypress Hills Street, Glendale, NY 11385; 718-366-3434: Michkey Redlich, pres.

Machpelah Cemetery: in AR. 82-30 Cypress Hills St., Glendale, NY 11385. 718-366-5959. Machpela's office is at 201 East Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10002 with no one at the cemetery. Source: Florence Marmor: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

UPDATE: Machpelah Cemetery has tombstones dating from the 1870s. Many stones are unreadable. An entire area is overgrun with vines. [May 2002]

Mount Carmel Cemetery: {Old & New) Mailing Address: Mount Carmel Cemetery Association, Call #276P.O. Box 860093, Ridgewood NY 11386 Attention Ms. Virginia S. Goldfinger, General Manager 718-366-5900. Searchable database.

The cemetery is located on 100 acres on the Brooklyn-Queens border. There are more than 85,000 graves. Website with a printable map and a searchable database of graves.  The cemetery is divided into 4 sections: Section 1 is located at 83-45 Cypress Hills Street; Sections 2 and 3 are located at: 66-02 Cooper Avenue; and Section 4 is located at 82-99 Cypress Avenue and Cypress Hills Street. Directions from Manhattan: 59th Street Bridge-Queens Boulevard-right turn at Woodhaven Boulevard-right turn onto Cooper Avenue-leads to Cypress Hills Street. Bear left ¾ of the way around traffic circle (Drum Park). Cemetery is on left side of Cypress Hills Street before the intersection of Cypress Avenue. The first interment took place on December 28, 1906.among the famous Jews buried in Mount Carmel are: Sholem Aleichem, Abraham Cahan, Morris Rosenfeld, Meyer London, and Jacob Adler. [June 2006] Sections:

Ackerman Benevolent Society: Sec. 3, Block B; Source: Jeffrey D. Beller; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Amstibeveh Young Men's Benevolent Association, Inc. map of the plots and burial index [April 2003]

Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun: Source: Hattie F. Berman-Murphy, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Kartuz Bereza (Steve Morse's website)

NY Jeweler's Ben. Assn. (194 names)

Neswiser Young Men's Society: More information and a list of names gathered and translated by Steven Stein include Blocks 3, 24 and 73A.

Ritova Chevra, a.ka. is also known as Chevra Rodfei Zedek Anshei Ritava 140 burials. The society is for the town of Ritavas, Lithuania. Burial plots in Cedar Park, Paramus NJ and one other place have not been indexed yet.

Rossianer Benevolent Association: 111 burials. Landsmanshaft for Rasseiniai, Lithuania.

Sokolka Society burials: also see Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn and Beth David on Long Island. Source: Flora and Herbert Gursky

United Fastoffer No. 1 (New York, N.Y.) Records, 1929-1968. Description: 1.3 linear ft. Notes: Landsmanshaft founded in 1900 by Jewish immigrants from Fastov, Ukraine. Its original name was United Congregation Anshe Fastoff Independent No. 1. A ladies auxiliary existed until 1969. ... a burial map of Mount Carmel Cemetery; YIVO collections are in Yiddish, Russian, Polish, English, Hebrew, and other European and non-European languages. Location: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, NY. Control No.: NXYH89-A755 [December 2000]

Workmen's Circle Inc.: (718-336-5900); 45 E 33rd St., NY 10016, (212) 532-1001, fax (212-532-1573) has lists of their members buried here. Source: Faith Weinberg, Asst. Director, Member Benefits

Mount Lebanon Cemetery: 7800 Myrtle Ave., Glendale NY 11385. 718-821-0200. Searchable database.

Jewish cemetery with about 85,000 graves and many family circles. [176 names donated for unknown section {10169}] The secretary is very helpful, but requires exact details because of so many unrelated surnames. Interment and care records are computerized. The first interment was in 1915 in this still active cemetery now providing aboveground mausoleum crypts in its Sanctuary. The following travel directions from Brooklyn and Manhattan were taken from a pamphlet on directions to various NYC area cemeteries put out by Gutterman's Funeral Directors: From NYC: Triboro Bridge, Grand Central to Interboro B'klyn, (now called J. Robinson Parkway) to exit on Forest Park Drive. Bear right to light (Myrtle Avenue). Turn left to cemetery. From Brooklyn: Interboro Parkway to Forest Park Drive Exit. Bear left to stop sign and continue under Parkway bridge to Myrtle Ave. Turn left to cemetery. From Queens: Belt Parkway to Woodhaven Blvd (Crossbay Blvd.). Turn right onto Woodhaven Blvd. Continue to Myrtle Avenue, turn left onto Myrtle Avenue. Continue to cemetery. Public transportation: BMT (Canarsie Line) at 14th St to Myrtle Avenue, and then take Richmond Hill Bus 55 to Cemetery. In addition, if coming from the Long Beach/ Far Rockaway/Belle Harbor area, take the Cross Bay Bridge at around Beach 92nd Street in the Rockways. The Cross Bay Bridge becomes Cross Bay Blvd and then later Woodhaven Blvd. Follow Woodhaven Blvd. to the appropriate turn street, either Myrtle Avenue or Jamaica Avenue, depending upon the cemetery being visited. Quite a few cemeteries are in the Glendale-Ridgewood area including Union Fields, Mt. Hope, Maimonides, Machpelah and Beth Olam. Organizations in Mt. Lebanon: (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

* Independent Orler Benevolent Society. Title: Records, [ca. 1895]-1957. Description: .3 linear ft. Notes: Landsmanshaft, which served as a mutual aid society, founded in 1892 by Jewish immigrants from Orla (Orlya), Belorussia. It was founded as a lodge affiliated with the Order Brith Abraham, but became independent in 1919. ... "golden book", ca. 1895-1957, including records of deaths of members and minutes of the burial society; ... cemetery deed; and photograph of old Orler cemetery. YIVO collections are in Yiddish, Russian, Polish, English, Hebrew, and other European and non-European languages. Location: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, NY. Control No.: NXYH89-A902 [December 2000]

* Workmen's Circle Inc.: (718)-821-0200; 45 E 33rd St., NY 10016, (212) 532-1001; fax (212) 532-1573 has a lists of their members buried here. Source: Faith Weinberg, Asst. Director, Member Benefits

Kroker Benevolent Association: (2 plots).

Lysyanka burials. Also see Montefiore Cemetery and Beth David on Long Island. Source: Flora and Herbert Gursky
http://www.jquarter.com/~cpsa/general/NY_CEM_1.htm has burials for Landsmanshaften Society Towns of Bereza, Lineve, Malch, Pruzany, Seltz & Shershev [November 2000]

Tchausser Society (Bronx, New York, N.Y.) Records, 1924-1959. Description: .2 linear ft. Notes: Landsmanshaft incorporated in 1924 in the Bronx, N.Y., by Jewish immigrants from Chaussy (Chausy), Belorussia. Certificate of incorporation, 1924; constitution; minutes, in Yiddish and English, 1925-1959; agreements and indentures made with Mount Lebanon Cemetery located in Glendale which is part of Queens; and miscellaneous materials. Yiddish and English. Location: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, NY. Control No.: NXYH89-A862 [December 2000]

• • • New Mt. Carmel Cemetery: Also [see Mt. Carmel-Glendale] 83-45 Cypress Hills Street, Glendale, NY 11385; 718-366-5900.
• Mount Neboh Cemetery: Dr. Charles Rothchild, President, 82-07 Cypress Hills St., Glendale, NY 11385. 718-366-4141. Off of the Interboro Parkway going towards Brooklyn: Turn right to the second cemetery on the right down the hill in the Glendale-Ridgewood area. Source: Mel Oshins, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Ratzker Society