Pinelawn Cemetery
Long Island National Cemetery
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| Established | 1936 |
| Location | Suffolk County, New York |
| Country | United States |
| Type | United States National Cemetery |
| Owned by | U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs |
| Size | 364.7 acres (147.6 ha) |
| No. of graves | 346,000+ |
| Website | Official |
| Find a Grave | Long Island National Cemetery |
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Long Island National Cemetery
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| Location | Wyandanch and Melville, NY |
| Coordinates | 40°45′27″N 73°23′48″W / 40.75750°N 73.39667°WCoordinates: 40°45′27″N 73°23′48″W / 40.75750°N 73.39667°W |
| NRHP reference # | 16000113 |
| Added to NRHP | March 22, 2016 |
Long Island National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Suffolk County, New York. It comprises the northern section of an area known as "Pinelawn", which consists of a grouping of cemeteries and memorial parks situated along Wellwood Avenue (County Road 3) - these include Pinelawn Memorial Park, St. Charles / Resurrection, Beth Moses, New Montefiore and Mt. Ararat Cemeteries. Its mailing address is Farmingdale (postal code 11735). Its borders East Farmingdale along its western edge and is located within the CDPS of Wyandanch (to the east), in the Town of Babylon, and Melville (to the north) in the Town of Huntington. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 364.7 acres (147.6 ha), and as of 2014, had more than 346,000 interments.
In 2016 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Long Island National Cemetery was established in 1936 with a purchase of 175 acres (71 ha) of land from Pinelawn Cemetery to answer a need after World War I of a large number of veterans, and not enough burial space in the urban cemeteries in New York City. At the time the only National Cemetery in the area was Cypress Hills National Cemetery in Brooklyn, and it had very limited area available. The land was developed and burials began in March 1937. Within its first 8 years, it saw over 10,000 interments from World War II.
A section of the cemetery has the interments of World War II prisoners of war, including 37 Germans and 54 Italians. There are also 35 British Commonwealth servicemen buried here from the same war.
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