Bayside Acacia Cemetery, Queens
 
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| Established | 1865 |
| Location | 80-35 Pitkin Avenue, Ozone Park, Queens, New York City |
| Country | USA |
| Coordinates | 40°40′42″N 73°51′21″W / 40.6782895°N 73.8558736°W |
| Type | Jewish |
| Owned by | Congregation Shaare Zedek |
| Size | 12 acres (49,000 m2) |
| No. of graves | 35,000 |
| Find a Grave | Bayside Cemetery |
| The Political Graveyard | Bayside Cemetery |
Bayside Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located at 80-35 Pitkin Avenue in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. It covers about 12 acres, and has had about 35,000 burials. It is bordered on the east by Acacia Cemetery, on the north by Liberty Avenue, on the west by Mokom Sholom Cemetery, and on the south by Pitkin Avenue.
Bayside was established by Congregation Shaare Zedek when the latter was an Orthodox Jewish synagogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Shaare Zedek still owns Bayside Cemetery and is currently a Conservative synagogue located on the Upper West Side, about ten miles away. The cemetery is reachable via public transportation by taking the IND Fulton Street Line A train to either the 80th Street station and walking west on Liberty Avenue around Mokom Sholom Cemetery to Pitkin Avenue, or to the 88th Street station and walking east on Liberty Avenue around Acacia Cemetery to Pitkin Avenue.
Bayside was founded in 1865, making it one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in New York City that is still active. Among those buried there are military veterans from the Civil War and a victim of the sinking of the Titanic.
Starting around the middle of the 20th century and extending over several decades, Bayside Cemetery fell into extensive disrepair, through both numerous episodes of vandalism and steady neglect. During a portion of this time, by the 1980s, its owner Shaare Zedek was "essentially defunct," with no rabbi and irregular services.
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