On This Day in History, March 23: Brooklyn Cemetery Landmarked
Gravesend Cemetery, located in Brooklyn at Gravesend Neck Road at McDonald Avenue, dating back to the 1650s, was designated a landmark on March 23, 1976.
It is a small cemetery of 1.6 acres. Many of the oldest gravestones have been lost.
The neighborhood of Gravesend lies between Bensonhurst and Sheepshead Bay and is bounded to the north by Avenue P, to the east by Ocean Parkway, to the south by Avenue Z, and to the west by Bay Parkway.