Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum — Attraction in New York

Trinity Church is one of New York’s oldest and most historical buildings. Having been built before even the Revolutionary War, the land has been visited by countless individuals and still today recognizes just how significant many of those individuals were.

Circling the church on all but one side is a graveyard covered in headstones, statues and monuments. Many politicians, war heroes, and businessmen are buried in Trinity Churchyard. It’s one of the most famous churchyards in all of New York.

The graveyard’s occupants, by the way, include Alexander Hamilton, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Angelica Schuyler Church, Philip Hamilton, William Bradford, Franklin Wharton, Robert Fulton, Captain James Lawrence, William Alexander, Lord Stirling and Albert Gallatin.

Alexander Hamilton and his wife Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton are perhaps Trinity Churchyard’s most notable occupants. But it is important to highlight the fact that the Hamiltons are joined by many other notable individuals whose lives help tell the stories of Trinity’s...

Rude and unhelpful staff marred the experience. Office locked but lights were on and there was even a funeral happening on the grounds so there were staff around but they clearly avoid work. Brochures only in Spanish. Yes, it’s a beautiful setting but elderly and disabled beware: you enter from Riverside Dr and then it’s steep climbing to get up to the Broadway side and also take note that the eastern section of the cemetery is completely different altogether and run by the Church of the Intercession not the cemetery. So, with all gates closed and locked, I had to go back down to Riverside Dr to exit and then back track up the hill to the eastern section only to find out from the (very friendly) guy at the Intercession church that the eastern section was closed - they have different hours. Annoying and unhelpful lack of information and assistance from the cemetery office. They clearly prefer that people don’t visit...

None of the reviewers as yet have noted that John James Audubon's home was located on the corner of 155th and Riverside, many feet below what is now 765 Riverside Drive, just outside and across the street (though the level the house once stood upon is part of the underground parking at 765). And yes, Audubon himself is buried here in the cemetery with many many others both famous and not. It is truly a beautiful and somber place. As some have noted the land was bought after Trinity Cemetery downtown ran out of room. If you come, keep in mind that most days it is only open from 9 am to 4 pm. The gates are all closed and locked when the cemetery is not open, though there are views from Riverside Drive down into the lowermost, westernmost section. You usually must enter at 770 Riverside Drive...