Calvary Cemetery

Calvary Cemetery is a in , , and , in New York City, United States. With about three million burials, it has the largest number of interments of any cemetery in the United States.
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  • Type: Cemetery
  • Description: Roman Catholic cemetery in Woodside, Queens, New York City, United States
  • Also known as: “Calvary Allied Cemetery”, “Calvary Cemetery (Queens, New York)”, and “First Calvary Cemetery”
  • Address: 4902 Laurel Hill Boulevard, 11377

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Greenpoint Avenue Bridge and L/CPL Thomas P. Noonan Jr. Playground.

Bridge
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The is a drawbridge that carries Greenpoint Avenue across between the neighborhoods of and in New York City. is situated 2,600 feet west of Calvary Cemetery.

Park
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is a 1.05-acre playground in the neighborhood of , New York City, United States. Operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, it occupies the block bounded by 42nd and 43rd Streets and Greenpoint and 47th Avenues.

Museum
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is a contemporary art museum at 22-01 Jackson Avenue in the neighborhood of Queens, in New York City, United States. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution organizes the Sunday Sessions performance series, the Warm Up summer music series, and the Young Architects Program with the . is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Calvary Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blissville and Sunnyside.

Neighborhood
Long Island City is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of . It is bordered by to the north; the to the west; to the east; and , which separates Queens from , to the south.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the western portion of the borough of . It is bounded by and to the west, to the north, to the east, and and to the south.

Locality
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is a large railroad junction in . The busiest rail junction in the United States, it serves trains on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line and Port Washington Branch, which diverge at the junction.

Calvary Cemetery

Latitude
40.73296° or 40° 43′ 59″ north
Longitude
-73.93075° or 73° 55′ 51″ west
Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)
Open location code
87G8P3M9+5M
Open­Street­Map ID
way 25420818
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­cemetery
Geo­Names ID
5111120
Wiki­data ID
Q2934520
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Calvary Cemetery” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Calvary Cemetery”
  • Chinese: “加尔瓦略墓园”
  • Chinese: “加爾瓦略墓園”
  • Czech: “Calvary Cemetery”
  • Dutch: “Calvary Cemetery”
  • Esperanto: “Calvary Cemetery”
  • Esperanto: “Kalvaria tombejo en Kvinzo”
  • French: “Calvary Cemetery”
  • French: “cimetière du Calvaire”
  • French: “Cimetière du Calvaire”
  • Galician: “Cemiterio Calvary”
  • German: “Calvary Cemetery”
  • Hebrew: “בית הקברות קלברי”
  • Irish: “Reilig Calvary”
  • Irish: “Reilig Chalvaire”
  • Japanese: “カルヴァリー墓地”
  • Japanese: “ニューカルバリー墓地”
  • Korean: “칼바리 공동묘지”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Calvary Cemetery”
  • Norwegian: “Old Calvary Cemetery”
  • Russian: “Голгофа (кладбище, Квинс, Нью-Йорк)”
  • Russian: “Голгофа (кладбище, Куинс)”
  • Russian: “Голгофа”
  • Russian: “кладбище Голгофа”
  • Spanish: “Calvary Cemetery”
  • Spanish: “Cementerio del Calvario”
  • Swedish: “Calvary Cemetery”
  • Turkish: “Calvary Mezarlığı”
  • Ukrainian: “Голгофа”

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