Evergreens Cemetery

The Cemetery of the Evergreens is a cemetery in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, colloquially called Evergreen Cemetery. It was incorporated in 1849, not long after the passage of New York's Rural Cemetery Act spurred development of cemeteries outside Manhattan. For a time, it was the busiest cemetery in New York City; in 1929 there were 4,673 interments. The cemetery borders Brooklyn and Queens and covers 225 acres (0.91 km2) of rolling hills and gently sloping meadows. It features several thousand trees and flowering shrubs in a park-like setting. The Evergreens is the final resting place of more than 526,000 people.

History
The Evergreens was built on the principle of the rural cemetery. Two of the era's most noted landscape architects, Andrew Jackson Downing and Alexander Jackson Davis, were instrumental in the layout of the cemetery grounds.

The Evergreens has a monument to six victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of March 25, 1911, who was unidentified for nearly a century. In 2011, Michael Hirsch, a historian, completed four years of research that identified these victims by name (see Group monument, below).

There are also 17 British Commonwealth service personnel buried in the cemetery, 13 from World War I and 4 from World War II.

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 2007. Cypress Hills Cemetery lies to its northwest.

Individual graves

 * Thomas Willett (1605 – 1674), the former 1st and 3rd Mayor of New York City
 * John Bunny (1863 – 1915), actor
 * Anthony Comstock (1844 – 1915), censor (see Comstock Law)
 * Emile Zyara (1965 – 2010), architect
 * Alice Fleming Day (1882 – 1952), actress, stage and screen
 * Martin Johnson Heade (1819 – 1904), artist
 * Augustin Pasteur (1888 – 1987), a cardiologist and WWI veteran
 * Adelaide Hall (1901 – 1993), singer, actress, dancer, a nightclub chanteuse
 * Edward Egan (1932 – 2015), the 9th Archbishop of New York

Group monument

 * Triangle Shirtwaist fire – the bodies of six victims of the 1911 fire to be identified were buried under a monument of a kneeling woman. They could not be identified after the inferno because they were burned beyond recognition, and had been buried without names. A century after the tragedy, in 2011, they were identified by historian Michael Hirsch as Maria Giuseppa Lauletti, Max Florin, Concetta Prestifilippo, Josephine Cammarata, Dora Evans, and Fannie Rosen.