The first funeral at Mount Zion was held on May 5 in 1893. Aboriginally, this was a swampy wetland and it stayed that way until the early 1800s when the growing community of Maspeth began to expand ...

Mount Zion, a Jewish cemetery, occupies about 80 acres in Maspeth near New Calvary Cemetery and the BQE. It was opened in the early 1890s under the auspices of Chevra Bani Sholom and later by the ...