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  U.S. Civil War Center -- Cypress Hills
Cypress Hills National Cemetery is among those cemeteries of the National Cemetery System which date their establishment from authority granted in an omnibus act containing legislation on a variety of subjects approved by President Lincoln on July 17, 1862.
Eligibility for burial in national cemeteries was initially restricted to the soldiers of the United States who fell in battle during the Civl War or died of wounds in hospitals during that war.
Cypress Hills National Cemetery, by its location in a metropolitan area, particularly felt the impact of the liberalized burial regulations, and it became evident that additional land would be necessary for cemetery purposes to supplement the 2.75 acres utilized since 1862 and acquired by purchase in 1870.
www.cwc.lsu.edu /cwc/projects/dbases/cypress.htm   (543 words)

  
 Cemeteries - Cypress Hills National Cemetery - Burial & Memorials
Cypress Hills began as a zone of the Interior Military Cemetery and was located within the boundaries of the large and private Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn.
In addition, in 1941, a small tract within the old Cypress Hills Cemetery, known as the Mount of Victory Plot, was donated by the State of New York.
Although Cypress Hills was established to honor Civil War veterans, its grounds include the graves of soldiers who fought in the American Revolution, Spanish-American War, Korean and Vietnam wars.
www.cem.va.gov /CEM/cems/nchp/cypresshills.asp   (1408 words)

  
 Spitzer and State Cemetery Board Announce Court Authorization of First Cypress Hills Cemetery Lot Owners Meeting Since ...
The temporary receiver was appointed based on claims of misconduct against the former board of directors of Cypress Hills Cemetery made by the Attorney General’s Office in a 1993 lawsuit.
By early 2000, the Attorney General and the New York State Cemetery Board concluded that the Cemetery’s operations and finances had stabilized to the point where the receivership could end and control be restored to a new board elected by the Cemetery’s lot owners.
Cemetery lot owners with questions about the April 5th lot owners’ meeting may call Douglas Rosenberg, the Cemetery’s temporary receiver, at (718) 852-1616, the New York State Division of Cemeteries at (212) 417-5708 or the Attorney General’s Charities Bureau at (212) 416-8397.
www.oag.state.ny.us /press/2001/mar/mar07a_01.html   (569 words)

  
 Cemetery FAQ's
While they could be buried in Brooklyn’s Washington Cemetery or one of the numerous cemeteries on the Brooklyn-Queens border, he or she could just as soon have been buried elsewhere in Queens, or in Staten Island, Long Island, or New Jersey as well.
Thus a young child or a spouse may be buried in a landsmanshaft plot in one of the older cemeteries, and the deceased's surviving spouse and adult children may be buried in a plot of the same society, but one that is located elsewhere.
Cypress Hills Cemetery is a non-sectarian cemetery in Brooklyn organized in 1848 that contains 14 early Jewish burial society plots.
www.jgsny.org /cemfaqs.htm   (2956 words)

  
 community
The village of Cypress Hills grew in the early 1830s.
Cypress Hills also became known for a horse race, which took place on the Union Race course.
Our community does not have a museums close by, we have a cemetery that is known for the famous people that are buried there.
www.tqnyc.org /NYC030494/community.html   (1216 words)

  
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Records are available at the Cemetery Office and at each congregation; source SE Cypress Hills National Cemetery is closed to active burial.
It's not a very democratic cemetery -- there is a definite distinction between the upper, the upper middle, and lower middle class.
At the office in Washington Cemetery, there is a set of ledgers that list births in chronological order, giving the decedent's address and the cause of death, the name of the burial society and possibly additional facts.
www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Cemetery/Jewish.ceme.html   (1145 words)

  
 Finding a Place in America:
A Collaborative Conversation on Community
  (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
Cypress Hills Cemetery was being sued because it had allowed construction companies to dump debris in this one section of the cemetery that was called Terrace Meadows.
Every time I tried to call the cemetery, I was either put on hold for ever, or was told that so and so was not in to take my call.
Not only was there a problem with the "hill", but the State Attorney's office cited mismanagement of cemetery funds by the officials who were then operating the cemetery.
projects.ltc.arizona.edu /finding/Community/page2acevedo.html   (558 words)

  
 Forest Lawn Cypress: Stars' Graves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
This Forest Lawn park out in Cypress (near the L.A./Orange County border) is tiny compared with its larger and more famous siblings in Glendale and Hollywood Hills.
It's the same cemetery where singer Harry Nilsson is buried, as well as comic book legend Jack Kirby, L.A. newsman Clete Roberts and Ron Goldman (the other victim in the O.J. Simpson murder case).
Forest Lawn Cypress is located near the western Orange County/L.A. border, just a few minutes north of Los Alamitos race track, and about three miles southwest of Knott's Berry Farm.
www.seeing-stars.com /Buried2/ForestLawnCypress.shtml   (1289 words)

  
 Cypress Hills Cemetery v City of New York (2006 NY Slip Op 10009)
Cypress Hills Cemetery v City of New York (2006 NY Slip Op 10009)
On their motion for summary judgment, the municipal defendants established that there was no agreement to the contrary, and in response the plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact (see Alvarez v Prospect Hosp., supra).
That the City constructed the bridges in the first instance does not change this allocation of the burden, nor imply an agreement by the City to continually repair or replace the bridges (see Streuber v E.E. Meacham and Son, supra at 575; Wood v Simon, 43 Misc 2d 500, 504).
www.courts.state.ny.us /reporter/3dseries/2006/2006_10009.htm   (449 words)

  
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She died 3/4/1829 and is buried at the old HOWARD cemetery on Shyville Road, Scioto TWP, Pike Co. Oh.
The cemetery is on land that belonged to Loyd HOWARD.
Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York * Records with an asterisk at the end indicates those that have not been verified by the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs.
home.comcast.net /~ric-howard/HFEN/316.html   (1357 words)

  
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This cemetery was established in 1849, when Father McDonough, who was then pastor of St. James's Church, in Jay street, purchased so seventeen acres of ground in the village of Flatbush for the purpose of a burial ground.
Immediately surrounding the church is the most attractive part of the cemetery to be found, for it is here that, as evidenced by the piles of monumental marble which surround it on all sides, are the graves of the wealthiest and best known classes of the Catholic community.
In 1897, the first year of the consolidation, the Union Cemetery, right in the heart of a congested district of the ward, was sold, and the bodies were removed to Cedar Grove Cemetery.
www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Cemetery/Ceme.Bklyn.html   (2481 words)

  
 Cemetery Pictures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
Cemetery photos have been known to open up numerous genealogical doors that you didn't even know existed...
Many times there are more in a plot than you knew of (I found 18 buried in one of my plots where I thought there was 1.
I rotate areas,as I get requests for city cemeteries and all the way out on the Island,so you will recieve your pictures between 3-8 weeks after payment is received.
www.yeoldedirectoryshoppe.com /CemeteryDetectives.htm   (524 words)

  
 Rent-Direct.com: East NY Apartment Brooklyn apartments East New York, Cypress Hills
Cypress Hills was settled by Dutch, French, Huguenot, and English farmers in about 1663.
A lot of the growth of Cypress Hills was due to the popularity of the Union Race Course, built around 1821.
Cypress Hills Cemetery is the largest of the cemeteries that straddle the Brooklyn/Queens border.
www.rent-direct.com /Brooklyn_Apartments/apartments-east_new_york.html   (380 words)

  
 New Page 2
Jacob and Pauline are buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery.
Henry was born in 1877 and died in 11, 1946 and is buried in the Old Montifiore Cemetery in St. Albans, NY.
Madeline died in 1913 from rheumatic fever and is buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn NY.
www.home.earthlink.net /~vicinanza/Vic4/SCHLOSS.HTM   (959 words)

  
 Cypress Hills National Cemetery, New York NY, cemetery profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Note: This cemetery name and location were drawn from the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System.
To find current phone listings for cemeteries, check the cemeteries section of nearby communities.
Cypress Hills National Cemetery locator map - To zoom in or out, click the plus and minus signs near the top left corner.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=138187   (240 words)

  
 Connecting Capron Cousins - Person Page 203
He was buried on 9 August 1922 in Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York; Section 2 Site 8793.
She was buried on 14 August 1922 in Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York; Section 2 Site 8793.
He was buried on 16 July 1864 in Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York; Section 1 Site 1390.
home.comcast.net /~desilva/p203.htm   (1056 words)

  
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As Dr. Bartha, 66, was buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Queens on Wednesday, in a quiet family ceremony, lawyers for the family, the injured, the neighbors and New York City began sorting out various claims to the property.
The only tender moment came as the ex-wife Dr. Nicholas Bartha tormented laid atop the fl polished tombstone some white baby roses - and a photo of the physician playfully hugging one of his two daughters when she was a baby more than two decades ago.
Nobody was really busted up," said a gravedigger at Cypress Hills Cemetery, who stood nearby as the mourners gathered around Bartha's coffin before it was lowered into the ground.
www.judicialaccountability.org /articles/divorceexplodesdoctor.htm   (12237 words)

  
 AsianWeek: News: Washington Journal
Located on the border between Brooklyn and Queens, it sits in a working class neighborhood that is a long, hot 16-stop ride on the elevated J train from Manhattan.
The nearest highway has changed names from the Interboro to the Jackie Robinson Expressway, and a new food market has opened across the street from the cemetery entrance, yet the fl cast-iron Cypress Hills gates have not been painted in what seems like decades.
The Buddhist and Christian priests take turns giving the first sermon at Mount Olivet and Cypress Hills, and church members come together on a bus that is sponsored by the Japanese American Association.
www.asianweek.com /2000_06_01/news_washj.html   (1001 words)

  
 Caretaker (Blood, Ghost Rider character)
He sealed their prison in the earth under what would become Cypress Hills Cemetery with a sigil and there they had to stay for as long as Caretaker's power existed.
He tells Ketch that his need for innocent blood to be spilled before becoming the Ghost Rider is all in his head.
Blaze, Ghost Rider, and Vengeance overpowered him and went back to Cypress Hills Cemetery for a rematch with Zarathos.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/caretr.htm   (1951 words)

  
 NYC.gov - Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - Sets in the City
Spider-man 2 filmed across the five boroughs of New York City, and got an early start in October of 2002, with mostly still photography shooting, and continued shooting into the Summer of 2003. The filmmakers took full advantage of the City and its hospitality while shooting this feature, and it is evident in its list of locations.
Some locations that were utilized in the first film were also used in the second, such as the Flatiron Building (the Daily Bugle offices), Columbia University (Peter Parker's School) and 69th Road between Metropolitan Avenue and Sybilla Street in Forest Hills, Queens (Aunt May's House).
· Cypress Hills Cemetery - 833 Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn
www.nyc.gov /html/film/html/locations/sets_spiderman2.shtml   (673 words)

  
 Maps
The first map shows the western portion of Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens and western Nassau, and is interesting in that it also shows the rapid transit lines, both surface and elevated.
In the first map note the Lutheran Cemetery Line (that portion of the current "M" train from Wyckoff Ave.
In fact the station on the Cypress Hills line where it intersected the NY and Manhattan Beach Ry.
www.lirrhistory.com /maps.html   (598 words)

  
 Legion of Vengeance (Ghost Rider (Ketch)/Iron Fist foes)
Iron Fist, who was among them as Daniel Rand, saved a child from the collapsing church and brought her to the outside while Vesper continued her vengeance in the church.
The heroes followed the burning steps of Vesper and found their enemies in a tomb at Cypress Hills Cemetery.
These characters are one of the many characters hanging around at the Cypress Hills Cemetery.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/legionofvengeancegrif.htm   (2983 words)

  
 The Schloss Family
On Sunday, October 6th, 2002 Cousin Marge, her husband Art and I took a journey into the past by visiting Cypress Hills Cemetery.
There we found a plot of land that was developed by the Noah Benevolent Society.
If you ever go to Cypress Hills - find the roads Thanatopsis and Woodhull - go right and follow that road until you see a near by school on your right.
home.earthlink.net /~vicinanza/Vic4/SCHLOSSPLOT.htm   (184 words)

  
 Cypress Hills National Cemetery - Kings County, New York
Cypress Hills National Cemetery - Kings County, New York
This cemetery was in use from 1870 to 1954.
These records may not represent the complete list of burials, only those that are on file with the VA. Reports of any errors should be directed to them.
www.interment.net /data/us/ny/kings/cypressnat/index.htm   (113 words)

  
 The Barry Report on National Cemeteries
He is listed in the National Cemetery as William H. Bonker.
National/Cypress Hills, NY MWIA 6/23/1864 at Weldon Railroad.
National/Cypress Hills, NY MWIA 5/23/1864 at Weldon Railroad, VA.
vermontcivilwar.org /barry/roh13cyp.shtml   (167 words)

  
 The Last of the Arctic Dead
Hancock and his staff were carried to the same destination by the Chester A. Arthur.
At the foot of Atlantic street, two light batteries under the command of Capt. Eagan met the company, and the whole procession marched to Cypress Hills Cemetery.
The body of Private Henry was interred in the national part of the cemetery devoted to the burial of soldiers.
www.arcticwebsite.com /GreelyHenry-SnyderBodies.html   (465 words)

  
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Two images relating to the Cypress Hills Roller rink.The badge on the right is from the early 1940s, the ticket from 1935.
The cemetery has been around since 1848 so I am assuming it is the date of the arch.We now have a page devoted to the Cypress Hills Cemetery located here.
We've had some updates on this; Debbie Baierlin recalls this was located across the entrance from Cypress Hills Cemetary on Jamaica, and that it was a catering hall.
www.tapeshare.com /Zone4.html   (1664 words)

  
 New York Cemeteries
Finnish Names in Cemeteries in the United States
For information please contact: Bath National Cemetery (607) 776-5480, Ext.
The bulk of these burials, however, occurred between 1860 and 1890.
www.newyorkgenealogy.org /cem.htm   (167 words)

  
 Cypress Hills Cemetety - Queens County, New York
Cypress Hills Cemetety - Queens County, New York
Follow this link to visit Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
1972, w/o George who is interred at Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, [LD]
www.interment.net /data/us/ny/queens/cypress.htm   (253 words)

  
 Rigor Mortis (Ghost Rider foe)
Aliases: Harbinger of Death; Mistress and Commander of the Conqueror Worm; the Paraclete of the Demon D’kay
Base of Operations: a mausoleum in Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
Gee, another supernatural creature that lurks in Cypress Hills Cemetery.
www.angelfire.com /comics2/marvunapp/rigormortisgr.htm   (472 words)

  
 NYSAC Member Listing - City
NOTE: If you would like to add a link to your web site or add your email address to your listing here please email the information to info@nysac.com.
REV. THOMAS BROSNAN, CYPRESS HILLS CEMETERY, 833 JAMAICA AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11208, TEL: 718-277-2900, FAX: 718-647-2701
MARIO GIL, CYPRESS HILLS CEMETERY, 833 JAMAICA AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11208, TEL: 718-277-2900, FAX: 718-647-2701
www.nysac.com /mem_info/vote_city.html   (3359 words)

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