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Ocean View has been helping families in the Staten Island and surrounding area take care of their final arrangements. Many families have chosen to make these arrangements ahead of time, well in advance of losing a loved one.
Contact our office to help arrange cemetery programs such as lots, cremation niches, memorials and monuments, garden vaults and the opening and closing of the grave.
Graves are available for immediate and pre-need. Call the office for further information: (718) 351-1870 History of Ocean View Cemetery - by Mary French 03/23 Ocean View Cemetery is located on Amboy Road in the Oakwood section of Staten Island. At 105 acres, it is one of the island’s largest cemeteries. Officially known as Ocean View—the Cemetery Beautiful, Inc., it is a nondenominational burial ground where over 50,000 people of diverse religions and nationalities are laid to rest. In the winter of 1899-1900, two new cemetery organizations—Ocean View and St. Agnes—began acquiring tracts of land near Staten Island’s south shore. By 1901 the two corporations owned several hundred acres stretching between Amboy Road and Arthur Kill Road in what is now the Oakwood/Richmond sections of Staten Island. The Ocean View Cemetery corporation, which absorbed the St. Agnes Cemetery corporation in 1905, established a namesake cemetery on part of the land they had amassed and sold off the remainder of the property to other cemetery corporations. Today this cemetery greenbelt includes United Hebrew Cemetery, Mount Richmond Cemetery, Frederick Douglass Memorial Park, and Ocean View Cemetery. From 1925 until 1940, part of Ocean View’s property was separately incorporated as Valhalla Burial Park, which was marketed to the local Scandinavian community. After the Valhalla Burial Park corporation declared bankruptcy in 1940, its grounds were reabsorbed into Ocean View Cemetery. Evidence of the former Valhalla Burial Park can be found on Ocean View’s north side, where there are large concentrations of grave markers bearing Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish surnames. Other notable burial grounds at Ocean View Cemetery include the Veterans section, marked by a flagpole and World War I monument, where a Veterans Day commemoration ceremony has been held every year since 1919, and the government-owned Merchant Marine Cemetery situated at a back corner of Ocean View. The intrepid explorer will find the ruins of Ocean View Mausoleum on a hill just south of the cemetery’s Amboy Road entrance. Designed by Clinton and Russell, one of New York’s leading architectural firms at the turn of the century, Ocean View Mausoleum was touted as the city’s first community mausoleum when it opened in 1920. Promotional materials describe it as a “scientific triumph and an artistic masterpiece,” “constructed of the finest grades of massive granite, stone, marble, and bronze,” “imposing in its air of grandeur and richness,” and “as permanent as the Pyramids of Egypt.” Ocean View Cemetery’s other architectural gem has withstood the passage of time and still stands majestically at the Amboy Road entrance. Part of landscape architect Daniel W. Langton’s original design for Ocean View’s grounds, the towered neo-Gothic stone gatehouse and imposing ironwork gates were completed in 1905.
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