Riverside Cemetery (Saddle Brook, New Jersey)

Jewish cemetery in Bergen County, New Jersey

For other cemeteries with the same name, see Riverside Cemetery (disambiguation).

Riverside Cemetery

Details
Established| 1906
Location|

Saddle Brook, New Jersey

Country|  United States
Coordinates| 40°53′35″N 74°04′54″W﻿ / ﻿40.8930047°N 74.0817317°W﻿ / 40.8930047; -74.0817317[1]
Type| Private
Owned by| Lakewood Cemetery Association
No. of graves| >65,000
Website| www.riversidecemetery.org
Find a Grave| Riverside Cemetery
The Political Graveyard| Riverside Cemetery

Riverside Cemetery is a plot-holder owned Jewish cemetery with over 65,000 burials located in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, located 9 miles (14 km) west of the George Washington Bridge. The cemetery maintains over 25,000 individual plantings on graves throughout the property.

Prior to becoming a cemetery, the land was the property of Richard Romaine. Bergen County Historical Society maps indicate a main house of early Italianate design (current office), a grist mill and a saw mill on the property (the mills were removed prior to establishment of the cemetery).

## Notable burials

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* Meyer Berger (1898–1959) Journalist[2]
* Abraham Jacob Bogdanove (1886–1946) Painter, educator
* Moshe Cotel (1943–2008) Composer
* Ervin Drake (1919–2015) Songwriter
* Stanley Milgram (1933–1984) Scientist
* Beatrice Pons (1906–1991) Actress
* Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988) Nobel Prize in Physics Recipient
* Benjamin J. Rabin (1896–1969) U.S. Congressman
* Phil Rubenstein (1940–1992) Actor
* Mayer Cavalier (1936-2022) Painter

## References

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1. ^ "Riverside Cemetery". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
2. ^ Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Co. #974. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.

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