You can visit the New York Marble Cemetery this weekend on 2nd Avenue

The historic New York Marble Cemetery is open today (Saturday!) from noon to 4 p.m. ... as part of Lower East Side History Month. 

The cemetery, incorporated in 1831, is at 41 1/2 Second Ave. between Second Street and Third Street...

The gates are usually open once a month from April through October. You can check the schedule here. 

As of now, it's set to be open tomorrow too, though that can change if it rains.

Visit a Marble cemetery in the East Village this weekend

Photos by Steven

Both historic Marble cemeteries in the East Village are hosting open days this weekend. (Despite the similarities in name, there isn't any formal connection between the two cemeteries.) 

• The New York City Marble Cemetery (above) on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue is available to visit tomorrow and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Read more about the history of the space here. As far as we can recall, this is the first time the property has been open to the public since 2019.

• The New York Marble Cemetery (below), 43 1/2 Second Avenue between Second Street and Third Street, is open tomorrow and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Find its history here. This space has been welcoming visitors on several weekends dating to April.

Steven also took in an aerial view of the New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street... 

Open days for the New York Marble Cemetery on 2nd Avenue

The circa-1830 New York Marble Cemetery, 41 1/2 Second Ave. between Second Street and Third Street, will be open to the public tomorrow (Sunday) from noon to 4 p.m. ...

Thanks to Pinch for the tip and pics from the first open day a few weeks back.

Here's the schedule through September...

Sunday, April 18: noon – 4 pm

Saturday, May 1: noon – 4 pm

Sunday, May 2 – Annual Reception & Owners Meeting: noon – 4 pm

Sunday, May 30: noon – 4 pm

Sunday, June 27: noon – 4 pm

Sunday, July 25: noon – 4 pm

Sunday, Aug. 29: noon – 4 pm

Sunday, Sept. 26: noon – 4 pm

The New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue does not have any open days scheduled yet.

Head to a local cemetery this weekend (for a visit)!

You're in luck if you've ever wanted to visit one of the neighborhood's circa-1830 Marble Cemeteries: It's a Fall Open Weekend.

Over at the New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue the gates will be open each day (Saturday and Sunday!) from noon to 5 p.m. They'll be historical displays available to learn more about the cemetery. You can also read this.

Meanwhile, the New York Marble Cemetery at 41 1/2 Second Ave. between Second Street and Third Street is open this weekend from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day.



Both photos are from summer visits.

Go inside the gates today at the New York City Marble Cemetery

It's another Neighborhood Open Day today (Saturday, June 15!) at the New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

From noon to 6 p.m. you'll have the opportunity to take in the usually gated space and learn more about its history.

Here are the remaining open days for the summer:

• Sunday, July 14
• Saturday August 17

Meanwhile, the New York Marble Cemetery at 41 1/2 Second Ave. between Second Street and Third Street will have open days on:

• Sunday, June 30
• Sunday, July 28
• Sunday, Aug. 25

The cemetery is open those days from noon to 4 p.m.

The gates are open: You may visit the New York City Marble Cemetery today on 2nd Street

It's the first Neighborhood Open Day of the year today at the New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

Here are the spring-summer open days here:

• Sunday, May 19
• Saturday June 15
• Sunday, July 14
• Saturday August 17

The cemetery is open on those days from noon to 6 p.m.

Read more about the history of this space at this link.

Meanwhile, here are the spring-summer open days for the New York Marble Cemetery at 41 1/2 Second Ave. between Second Street and Third Street:

• Sunday, May 26
• Sunday, June 30
• Sunday, July 28
• Sunday, Aug. 25

The cemetery is open those days from noon to 4 p.m.

You won't be able to visit the New York City Marble Cemetery today

In case your plans today included a visit to the New York City Marble Cemetery during its Neighborhood Open Day ... that isn't happening now... a handwritten note here on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue says the cemetery won't be open today "due to illness" ...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

A message on the Cemetery's website is more ominous: "As of May 5, 2017, the Cemetery is temporarily closed to visitors until further notice."

The New York Marble Cemetery at 41 1/2 Second Ave. between Second Street and Third Street will be open next Sunday (Mother's Day!) from Noon to 4 p.m. Find their schedule for the season here.

Open Cemetery Weekend

This weekend, the New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue... and the New York Marble Cemetery on Second Avenue between Second Street and Third Street are open to the public from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

This is part of the whole Open House New York Weekend happening this, uh, weekend. Here's a PDF of the program for the stuff you don't need reservations for to enter.

[Updated] You and your family can be buried close to your East Village home for $350,000

[EVG photo from Sunday]

So it turns out that the New York Marble Cemetery on Second Avenue between East Second Street and East Third Street has the last two inground burial plots openly available in Manhattan.

And they are for sale — $350,000 each.

New York magazine has the story in its current issue.

The cemetery's monthly Open Days provide one way for cemetery officials to make the pitch to potential vault owners.

Caroline DuBois, president of the board and future occupant of vault No. 54, sat on a bench under two multicolored umbrellas. Brochures and a donation jar sat on a table in front of her. “I think it would be the perfect gift for a hedge-fund billionaire to give his sweetheart,” she said.

And how did they come up with that price?

“When you only have two, why give them away?” asked Robert Breck Denny, a trustee and a likely resident of No. 38, who was sitting near DuBois. To come up with their price, the trustees researched the cost of comparable grave sites — “in San Francisco, in Hong Kong, in Paris” — and “basically, did a market analysis.”

Like nickel beer, the vaults were much less expensive back in the day — $250 when the cemetery opened in 1830.

The cemetery's website has much info on the vaults:

NYMC is offering its two reclaimed and empty family-sized 80 square foot marble vaults for sale for $350,000 each. The requirement for bio-degradable materials ensures that a purchaser’s family can use the space for many generations to come. Interested buyers should contact info@marblecemetery.org for details.

Updated 9:30 a.m.

Gothamist first reported on the two plots at New York Marble Cemetery back in June. Read that piece here.

ALL the Marble cemeteries are open to the public today in the East Village

Today (right now!) the New York Marble Cemetery — the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in New York City — is open to the public at 41 1/2 Second Ave. between East Second Street and East Third Street…



Meanwhile! Around the corner on East Second Street between Second Avenue and First Avenue… it's Day 2 of the Fall Open Weekend at the New York City Marble Cemetery… you have until 5 p.m. (to visit) …

… and here's a scene from there yesterday via Derek Berg …

Does this mean more condos then? Your chance to claim a vault

Bobby Williams spotted this outside the New York Marble Cemetery on Second Avenue near Second Street yesterday...

And no explosives

Given all the drama at the other Marble Cemetery early last week...Here at the New York Marble Cemetery on Second Avenue... a new "no trespassing" sign went up the other day...



...perhaps to ward off anyone thinking of dumping an old bag of explosives inside the gates or something...

Your chance to get inside the New York Marble Cemetery

On Sunday, the New York Marble Cemetery (or Second Avenue Cemetery) is open to the public from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. A little background in case you don't want to visit the Web site:

It is the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in New York City. Most of the 2,070 interments took place between 1830 and 1870; the last was in 1937. All burials are in 156 below-ground vaults made of solid white Tuckahoe marble. Although there are no gravestones, the names of the original owners are on plaques in the surrounding walls. Their descendants may still be buried here.

The cemetery is only open on the fourth Sunday of the month, April through October. (It won't be open if it's raining.) It's on Second Avenue between Third Street and Second Street.

If you're lucky, you can get the caretaker to discuss the Bowery Hotel... (Spoiler: "a bunch of tourists who think they're slumming it on the Bowery in a $500 hotel room!")

Anyway, here's what you may see Sunday....the new and old of the neighborhood....