Riverside Cemetery (Saddle Brook, New Jersey)

For other cemeteries with the same name, see Riverside Cemetery (disambiguation).

Riverside Cemetery is a plot-holder owned Jewish cemetery with over 65,000 burials located in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, located 9 miles (14 km) west of the George Washington Bridge. The cemetery maintains over 25,000 individual plantings on graves throughout the property.

Riverside Cemetery
Details
Established	1906
Location	Saddle Brook, New Jersey
Country	United States
Coordinates	40°53′35″N 74°04′54″W[1]
Type	Private
Owned by	Lakewood Cemetery Association
No. of graves	>65,000
Website	www.riversidecemetery.org
Find a Grave	Riverside Cemetery
The Political Graveyard	Riverside Cemetery

Prior to becoming a cemetery, the land was the property of Richard Romaine. Bergen County Historical Society maps indicate a main house of early Italianate design (current office), a grist mill and a saw mill on the property (the mills were removed prior to establishment of the cemetery).

Notable burials

• Meyer Berger (1898–1959) Journalist^[2]
• Abraham Jacob Bogdanove (1886–1946) Painter, educator
• Moshe Cotel (1943–2008) Composer
• Ervin Drake (1919–2015) Songwriter
• Stanley Milgram (1933–1984) Scientist
• Beatrice Pons (1906–1991) Actress
• Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988) Nobel Prize in Physics Recipient
• Benjamin J. Rabin (1896–1969) U.S. Congressman
• Phil Rubenstein (1940–1992) Actor
• Mayer Cavalier (1936-2022) Painter