Nearly 600 cemeteries and burial grounds across the five boroughs — the active, the preserved and the long-paved-over — with burial counts and notable residents where they're documented.
This map was built with AI assistance. Active-cemetery shapes come from OpenStreetMap; the fuller inventory — including historic and obliterated burial grounds, and the founding years and status labels — comes from Elizabeth D. Meade's Cemeteries of New York City catalogue. Notable burials come from Wikidata.
Burial counts were checked one by one against cemetery websites, Wikipedia article text and news sources, with a source link and confidence level shown for each. Most cemeteries publish no figure at all.
"Notable burials" means people with Wikipedia/Wikidata entries who are recorded there as buried at the cemetery — an incomplete and uneven list.
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