For a time it was the busiest cemetery in New York City: in 1929 there were 4,673 interments.
Notable burials Anthony Comstock (1844 - 1915), censor (see Comstock Law) James E. Davis (1962 - 2003), New York City councilman (he was originally interred in Greenwood Cemetery, but after it was realized that his assassin was also interred there, he was moved to the Cemetery of the Evergreens) Antonio "Tony" Pastor (1837 - 1908), vaudevillian Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1877 - 1949), dancer