Trinity Church (shown): 74Trinity Place Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum 770 Riverside Drive St. Paul's Chapel: 209Broadway Manhattan, New York, U.S.
The second Trinity parish burial ground is theSt. Paul's Chapel Churchyard, which is also located in lower Manhattan, six blocks (roughly 440 yards (400 m)) north of Trinity Church. It was established in 1766. Both of these churchyards are closed to new burials.
After considering locations in the Bronx and portions of the then-newGreen-Wood Cemetery, in 1842 Trinity Parish purchased the plot of land now bordered by 153rd Street, 155th Street, Amsterdam Avenue, and Riverside Drive to establish the Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum. The cemetery is located beside theChapel of the Intercession that Audubon co-founded in 1846, but this chapel is no longer part of Trinity parish.[4]James Renwick, Jr., is the architect of Trinity Church Cemetery and further updates were made byCalvert Vaux.[5] The uptown cemetery is also the center of theHeritage Rose District of New York City.
A no-longer-extant Trinity Parish burial ground was the OldSaint John's Burying Ground for St. John's Chapel. This location is bounded by Hudson, Leroy and Clarkson streets nearHudson Square. It was in use from 1806 to 1852 with over 10,000 burials, mostly poor and young. In 1897, it was turned into St. John's Park, with most of the burials left in place. The park was later renamed Hudson Park, and is nowJames J. Walker Park.[6] (This park is different from a separateSt. John's Park, a former private park and residential block approximately one mile to the south that now serves as part of the Holland Tunnel access.)
John Peter Zenger (1697–1746), newspaper publisher whose libel trial helped establish the right to a free press
In the northeast corner stands theSoldiers' Monument, with a plaque reading: "At a meeting of Citizens held at the City Hall of the City of New York June 8, 1852: It was resolved That the Erection of a becoming Monument with appropriate inscriptions by Trinity Church to the Memory of those great and good Men who died whilst in Captivity in the oldSugar House and were interred in Trinity Church Yard in this City will be an act gratifying not only to the attendants of this Meeting but to Every American Citizen."[8]
The claim those prisoners are buried in Trinity Churchyard is disputed by Charles I. Bushnell, who argued in 1863 that Trinity Church would not have accepted them because it supported Great Britain.[9] HistorianEdwin G. Burrows explains how the controversy related to a proposal to build a public street through the churchyard.[10]
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum (770 Riverside Drive)
Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781–1861), American composer and founding chair of the New York Philharmonic Society
Geoffrey Lamont Holder (1930–2014), Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, and choreographer, principal actor for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in New York City, portrayed Baron Samedi inLive and Let Die
David Hosack (1769–1835), physician, botanist, educator, tended to Alexander Hamilton's mortal wound
^Chernow, Ron (March 29, 2005). "Epilogue". Alexander Hamilton. Penguin.ISBN9781101200858.
^Chi, Sheena (December 15, 2008)."Trinity Church—Soldiers' Monument—Memorial for Unknown Revolutionary War Heroes".Archived from the original on December 16, 2019. RetrievedDecember 16, 2019. This inscription is on the south side. An inscription on the east side is more general: "Sacred to the memory of those brave and good Men who died whilst imprisoned in this City for their devotion to the cause of American independence." (Burrows, cited below, p. 230 (caption); photos at Find a Grave, cited below)
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