New York City Marble Cemetery

The New York City Marble Cemetery is a historic cemetery founded in 1831 and located at 52-74 East 2nd Street between First and Second Avenues in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The cemetery has 258 underground burial vaults constructed of Tuckahoe marble on the site. The New York City Marble Cemetery, which was the city's second non-sectarian burial place, and should not be confused with the nearby New York Marble Cemetery one block west (this was the first, established one year earlier). It is a New York City Landmark as of 1969 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.