Woodlawn was the destination for many human remains disinterred from cemeteries in more densely populated parts of New York City: • Rutgers Street church graves were moved to Woodlawn. Most graves were re-interred with a stated date of December 20, 1866 into the Rutgers Plot, lots 147–170. • West Farms Dutch Reformed Church, at Boone Avenue and 172nd Street in
The Bronx, had most of its graves moved to Woodlawn Cemetery in 1867 and interred in the Rutgers Plot, Lots 214–221. • Bensonia Cemetery, also known as "Morrisania Cemetery", was originally a
Native American burial ground. The graves were moved to Woodlawn Cemetery with a stated date of April 21, 1871 and re-interred into Lot 3. Public School #138, in
The Bronx, is now on the site. • Harlem Church Yard cemetery internees were moved to Woodlawn. Most graves were re-interred with a stated date of August 1, 1871 into the Sycamore Plot, lots 1061–1080. • Nagle Cemetery remains were moved in November–December 1926 and reinterred in Primrose Plot, Lot 16150. Identities of those interred are apparently unknown. • The Dyckman-Nagle Burying Ground, West 212th Street at 9th Avenue, in the Borough of
Manhattan, was originally established in 1677 and originally contained 417 plots. In 1905, the remains, with the exception of Staats Morris Dyckman and his family, were removed. By 1927, the Dyckman graves were finally moved to Woodlawn Cemetery. The former Dutch colonial-era cemetery is now a
207th Street subway train yard. The fictional cemetery of the Synagogue in Brooklyn in the film
Once Upon a Time in America is actually located here, renamed "Riverdale Cemetery". ==Notable burials==