The New York City Cemetery Project chronicles the graveyards of NYC. Hundreds of cemeteries—including small family burial grounds and churchyards, as well as larger cemeteries containing hundreds, thousands, even millions of bodies—have existed throughout the five boroughs since the 17th century, with qualities as diverse as the numerous groups that established them and histories as distinct and ever-evolving as the city itself. These cemeteries record patterns of history and immigration and the traditions and customs of numerous religious and ethnic groups, and many are the only remnant of an area’s rural or neighborhood past.