Montefiore Cemetery
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Montefiore Cemetery, also known as "Old Montefiore Cemetery," is a Jewish cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens
, New York
.
The cemetery is called by many names. It is known as Old Montefiore, Springfield, or less commonly just plain Montefiore.
, known as New Montefiore Cemetery.
Springfield Gardens, Queens
Springfield Gardens is a neighborhood in the southeastern area of the New York City borough of Queens, bounded to the north by St. Albans, to the east by Laurelton & Rosedale, to the south by John F. Kennedy International Airport, and to the west by Farmers Boulevard...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
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The cemetery is called by many names. It is known as Old Montefiore, Springfield, or less commonly just plain Montefiore.
Notable burials
- Hyman AmbergHyman AmbergHerman "Hyman" Amberg was a New York mobster who, with his brothers Joseph and Louis "Pretty" Amberg, formed one of the prominent criminal gangs during Prohibition....
, mobster - Joseph C. AmbergJoseph C. AmbergJoseph Amburg was a New York mobster who, with his brothers Hyman and Louis "Pretty" Amberg, was involved in labor racketeering and other criminal activities. During the 1920s and 1930s the brothers competed with rivals such as Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, Abe "Kid Twist" Reles...
, mobster - Louis AmbergLouis AmbergLouis "Pretty" Amberg was in a criminal organization with his brothers Joseph and Hyman Amberg competing against Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and the Shapiro Brothers for control of Brooklyn's racketeering activities during the 1920s and early 1930s. Ambergs body was found in a...
, mobster - Al "Bummy" Davis, boxer
- Alexander GranachAlexander GranachAlexander Granach was a popular German actor in the 1920s and 1930s.- Biography :Granach was born Jessaja Granach in Werbowitz to Jewish parents and rose to theatrical prominence at the Volksbühne in Berlin...
, actor - Ari HalberstamAri HalberstamAri Halberstam was a yeshiva student from a distinguished family associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, who was killed in a terrorist shooting in New York City....
, student murdered by a Palestinian terrorist - Lou LimmerLou LimmerLouis Limmer, known as Lou was a Major League Baseball player in 1951 and 1954 for the Philadelphia Athletics....
, baseball player - Barnett NewmanBarnett NewmanBarnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.-Early life:...
, artist - Albert Leonard, film executive
- Menachem Schneerson, Lubavitch rabbi
- Arnold SchusterArnold SchusterArnold L. Schuster was a Brooklyn, New York, clothing salesman and amateur detective, known for his involvement in the capture of bank robber Willie "The Actor" Sutton and for subsequently being the victim of a gangland murder by the Gambino crime family...
, Brooklyn clothing salesman and amateur detective - Aryeh Leib SchochetAryeh Leib SchochetRabbi Aryeh Leib Schochet was a Russian rabbi who emigrated to the United States in 1906. He published one of the first books on Chassidus in America titled Lekutim Yekarim.- Biography :...
, Radifker Rebbe - Sholom Secunda, songwriter
- Jacob ShapiroJacob ShapiroJacob "Gurrah" Shapiro was a New York mobster who, with his partner Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, controlled industrial labor racketeering in New York for two decades and established the Murder, Inc. organization.-Early years:...
, mobster - Dave TarrasDave TarrasDave Tarras was possibly the most famous 20th century klezmer musician. He is known for his long career and his very skilled clarinet playing.-Biography:...
, musician - Abraham TelviAbraham TelviAbraham Telvi was a Jewish-American mobster and hitman for New York labor racketeer Johnny Dio, known most notably for blinding crusading New York journalist Victor Riesel with acid.-Biography:...
, mobster
New Montefiore
In 1947, Montefiore Cemetery expanded to include a second site in Farmingdale, New YorkFarmingdale, New York
The Village of Farmingdale is an incorporated village on Long Island within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York in the United States...
, known as New Montefiore Cemetery.