The 5 Littlest Cemeteries in Brooklyn
Old New Utrecht Cemetery
This one acre boneyard on 16th Avenue in Bensonhurst is perhaps the most poorly kept of the borough’s small burial grounds. A visit by the Times in 2007 found that the plot, though a city landmark, “has no professional groundskeepers to mow its grass, pull its weeds or maintain its crumbling gravestones. In late summer and through the fall, the cemetery usually is a jungle of dense brush and gnarled weeds that grow higher than the gravestones and obscure the recognizable surnames engraved on them”—names of Brooklyn royalty like Cropsey, Nostrand, Bath, Ditmas, and Van Brunt. [photo]