The New York Marble Cemetery 

41 1/2 Second Ave.
bewteen 2nd and 3rd Streets

The New York Marble Cemetery, Inc.
Incorporated 1831  
    Above: exterior gate
The New York Marble Cemetery has been designated a New York City landmark and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

    Above: inner gate
    Above: view of interior north wall
The New York Marble Cemetery (NYMC) is the oldest non-sectarian burying ground in Manhattan (the founder, Perkins Nichols, built a second – Marble Cemetery – just around the corner). Generally NYMC is not open for public use, but the green space provides a haven for city wildlife and the flowering shrubs bloom with lovely color each spring.

Although there are many similarities between NYMC and Marble Cemetery on 2nd St., they have always operated independently from each other. NYMC does not use individual stone markers. Instead there are marble family vaults the size of small rooms built ten feet underground in the excavated interior of the block. Access to each pair of vaults is by the removal of stone slabs set well below the grade of the lawn. These are marked by marble plaques set into the cemetery's long north and south walls. NYMC's neighbor on 2nd St., Albert's Garden, shares one of the cemetery's beautiful fieldstone walls.

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    Views of interior south wall and stone inscriptions.

Open to the Public Only a Few Days a Year

The New York Marble Cemetery:
41 1/2 2nd Ave.
between 2nd & 3rd Streets off west side of 2nd Ave.

For times when it is open to the public and other information click here:

www.marblecemetery.org

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