Old Gravesend Cemetery
Old Gravesend Cemetery is a historic cemetery at Gravesend Neck Road and McDonald Avenue in Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York, New York. The cemetery was founded about 1658 and contains the graves of a number of the original patentees and their families.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City
- Also known as: “Gravesend Cemetery”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Avenue U station and Lady Moody Triangle.
Avenue U station
Metro station
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The Avenue U station is a local station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Avenue U and McDonald Avenue in Gravesend, Brooklyn. Avenue U station is situated 620 feet northeast of Old Gravesend Cemetery.
86th Street station
Metro station
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The 86th Street station is a local station on the BMT Sea Beach Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 86th Street and West Seventh Street in Gravesend, Brooklyn. 86th Street station is situated 1,200 feet southwest of Old Gravesend Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gravesend and Bensonhurst.
Gravesend
Neighborhood
Gravesend is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the southwestern edge of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.
Bensonhurst
Neighborhood
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Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bordered on the northwest by 14th Avenue, on the northeast by 60th Street, on the southeast by Avenue P and 22nd Avenue and on the southwest by 86th Street.
Brighton Beach
Neighborhood
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brighton Beach is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the greater Coney Island area along the Atlantic Ocean coastline.
Old Gravesend Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.59467° or 40° 35′ 41″ northLongitude
-73.97463° or 73° 58′ 29″ westElevation
16 feet (5 metres)Open location code
87G8H2VG+V4OpenStreetMap ID
way 558631169OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
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