Highland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (South)

Cemetery · Queens

This stretch of parkland and burial grounds lines the Brooklyn side of the Queens border along Jamaica Avenue.

  • 0.29 square miles
  • 2 street corners
  • 1 subway station
  • 5 bus routes

Highland Park, which spans both boroughs on a high plateau overlooking the cemeteries and East New York, dates to 1891, when the City of Brooklyn acquired the ground around its Ridgewood Reservoir for a park. The neighboring grounds are part of the Cemetery Belt that took shape after New York's Rural Cemetery Act of 1847, including Cypress Hills Cemetery, chartered as a nonsectarian cemetery and dedicated in 1848, and Cypress Hills National Cemetery, which grew out of a plot reserved for soldiers who died in the Civil War.

Sources: Highland Park History (NYC Parks); Rural Cemetery Act (Wikipedia); A Brief History of Cypress Hills Cemetery (Cypress Hills Cemetery); Cypress Hills National Cemetery (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs).

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Highland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (South) borders three areas.

Street map of Highland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (South), Queens, outlined among Highland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (North), Cypress Hills and Woodhaven, with its one subway station and Highland Park.WoodhavenCypress HillsHighland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (North)
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Cypress Hills lines J

Getting around

One subway station and buses on five routes stop in or at the edge of Highland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (South).

  • 1 subway station
  • 5 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B13
  • J90
  • Q7
  • Q56
  • T340

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 5 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 2.5 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner

Camera tickets

In 2025 the Department of Finance recorded no red-light, school-zone speed or bus-lane camera ticket at its corners.

Parks

Parkland
36.1 acres of Highland Park, as NYC Parks maps it within Highland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (South)

Streets and trees

Trees
448 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and flowering cherry

Schools

The City lists six schools in Highland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (South).

Public schools
5
Charter or private school
1

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, one bike-share station stands in Highland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (South). The City's public art inventory lists one work in the area: Dawn of Glory (1924).

  • 1 bike-share station
  • 1 work of public art

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.