Union Field Cemetery

{{Short description|Jewish cemetery in Queens, New York}} {{more citations needed|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox cemetery |name=Union Field Cemetery |image= |caption= |established=1878 |type=Jewish |findagraveid=66567 |country=United States |location=8211 Cypress Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens |coordinates={{Coord|40.69134|-73.88717|display=inline,title}} |website= |owner=Congregation Rodeph Sholom }}

'''Union Field Cemetery''' is a Jewish cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens, New York City. Located in the Cemetery Belt, it was chartered in 1846 and dedicated in 1878 and serves the Congregation Rodeph Sholom who purchased the plot of land.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kadinsky |first1=Sergey |title=UNION FIELD CEMETERY, RIDGEWOOD |url=https://forgotten-ny.com/2024/12/union-field-cemetery-ridgewood/ |website=Forgotten New York |date=14 December 2024 |access-date=15 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=French |first1=Mary |title=Machpelah Cemetery & the Union Field Cemeteries |url=https://nycemetery.wordpress.com/2018/06/21/machpelah-cemetery-the-union-field-cemeteries/ |website=NYC Cemetery Project |date=June 21, 2018}}</ref>

==Notable burials== * Roy Cohn, lawyer and prosecutor who handled the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg<ref name="nyc 24"/> * Joshua Lionel Cowen, inventor; manufacturer of model railways<ref>{{cite news |last= Campbell |first= Cal |date=August 27, 2018 |title=Joshua Lionel Cowen |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106955610/journal-gazette/ |work= Journal Gazette|location=Matton, Illinois|via=Newspapers.com {{open access|access-date=August 5, 2022}}}}</ref> * Samuel Dickstein, politician and judge; United States representative from New York from 1923 to 1945, New York State Supreme Court Justice, and a Soviet spy * Charles Frohman, theatre manager and producer; died in the sinking of the ''Lusitania'' during WWI * Michael Furst, lawyer * Henry M. Goldfogle, politician; United States representative from New York from 1901 to 1915 * Alan Hewitt, actor<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25047-25048). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref> * Samuel H. Hofstadter, lawyer and politician * Jacob Joseph, Chief Rabbi of New York City<ref>{{cite news |last1=Silow-Carroll |first1=Andrew |title=An Old World Rabbi's Sad Encounter with New York Jewry |url=https://www.jta.org/2020/12/15/ny/an-old-world-rabbis-sad-encounter-with-new-york-jewry |work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=December 15, 2020}}</ref> * Bert Lahr, actor and comedian<ref name="nyc 24">{{Cite web |title=From Haunted Mansions to the Brooklyn Bridge |url=http://www.nyc24.org/2002/issue04/story02/page02.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121140725/http://www.nyc24.org/2002/issue04/story02/page02.asp |archive-date=November 21, 2008 |access-date=December 26, 2018 |website=NYC 24}}</ref> * Robert Lansing, actor * Fredericka Mandelbaum, female crime boss in the mid to late 19th-century<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kalish |first1=Jon |title=The Jewish mother who became a crime boss in Gilded Age New York |url=https://www.jta.org/2024/07/09/ny/the-jewish-mother-who-became-a-crime-boss-in-gilded-age-new-york |work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=July 9, 2024}}</ref> * Israel Miller, founder of I. Miller & Co.<ref name=":5">{{Cite news |date=1929-08-22 |title=2,000 At Miller Rites |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-times-israel-miller-f/169770019/ |access-date=2025-04-07 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Times |pages=8A}}</ref> * Arnold Rothstein, crime boss in the early 20th-century<ref>{{cite web |last1=May |first1=Allan R. |title=Arnold Rothstein, Dark Genius of the Mob: Last Hours of Mr. Big |url=https://www.crimelibrary.org/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/rothstein/big_15.html |website=Crime Library: Criminal Minds and Methods |access-date=January 15, 2025}}</ref> * Nahum Meir Schaikewitz, Yiddish and Hebrew novelist and playwright. * Ludwig Teller, politician; United States representative from New York 1957 to 1961 * Susan Brandeis Gilbert, attorney and daughter of Louis Brandeis<ref>{{Cite web |title=Susan Brandeis Gilbert |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gilbert-susan-brandeis |access-date=2025-08-05 |website=Jewish Women's Archive |language=en}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{Official website|https://unionfieldcemetery.org}} * {{Find a Grave cemetery|66567}}

Category:1878 establishments in New York City Category:Cemeteries in Queens, New York Category:Jewish cemeteries in New York City Category:Cemeteries established in the 1870s