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When traveling to LGA from Manhattan, I'd usually pass by what is a very large cemetery compared to what I'm used to here in the rural South; it always made me wonder how a city the size of NYC dealt with the deceased.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colma,_California might be interesting to you. When San Francisco ran out of space in the early 20th century, at first they banned any new cemeteries from being built, and then they moved all the existing ones just south of the city limit.

For the interested, parent is probably referring to Calvary Cemetery [1]. I don't think it's the largest cemetery in the US by acreage, but it's the largest by number of burials. I've always thought it must drive economists and real estate developers nuts that there's all this land in New York City which is probably permanently off-limits to development.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary_Cemetery_(Queens,_New_...

365 acres = .570 mi².

NYC population density = 27,858/mi².

That's space for 15,723 (living) people.

There are approx 3M people buried there.

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