Queens Funeral Home Directory | NYSDOH-Listed Firms

Direct answer and scope

To browse firms for Queens, use the Queens county filter in the NYSDOH Opened Firms report. The official report supplies firm name, address, city, ZIP code, phone, county, and manager fields. The directory's rendered table applies that county filter and displays the validated evidence fields associated with the July 2026 report revision.

The directory includes firms whose report county is Queens, including firms located in cities and neighborhoods such as Astoria, Bayside, Flushing, Jamaica, Maspeth, Richmond Hill, Ridgewood, Woodside, and other Queens County locations shown in the table. A neighborhood or mailing city is not a substitute for the county field; the county designation controls inclusion.

The table is intended to help a family or purchaser identify firms to contact and compare. It does not state that a firm provides a particular funeral, burial, cremation, transportation, religious, cultural, or other service unless that fact is separately verified. It also does not describe any firm as state-approved, highest-rated, cheapest, or otherwise preferred.

How to use the official evidence

Begin with the firm's exact registered name and address in the rendered table. The NYSDOH Opened Firms report provides the firm's name, address, city, ZIP code, phone, county, and manager fields. The manager field identifies the manager recorded in that report.

The table also reports whether the manager name matched the supplied active-directors evidence. A match is a directory evidence result, not a statement that a particular person is currently available, that the person performed arrangements, or that the firm offers any particular service. A non-match should prompt a direct verification question rather than an assumption about the reason.

The closed-firm safeguard compares normalized firm name and address, rather than relying on a name alone. When the same normalized name and address appears in the official Closed Firms report with a closure date, the opened-firm row is excluded from public output. This is a directory safeguard and not a legal finding. Similar names at different addresses, or ambiguous name-only similarities, are not treated as closure matches.

Decision framework

Use the directory first to create a contact list, then narrow it by the arrangements required. Ask each firm whether it can handle the specific care, moving, preparation, burial, or cremation arrangements being considered. In New York, only a licensed and registered funeral director may make those arrangements. Directory staff should not be assumed to perform licensed functions.

For a funeral director operating in New York City, verify both a New York State license and NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Vital Records or Burial Desk registration. The state firm list alone does not establish person-level NYC registration, so ask the arranging firm how the responsible director's current registration can be confirmed.

New York funeral firms must provide responsive price information by telephone. NYC consumer guidance recommends obtaining General Price Lists or price information from multiple funeral homes and comparing them. A quote or General Price List may omit cemetery, crematory, flowers, and newspaper notices, and the itemized statement should show outside amounts.

When comparing quotes, ask for an itemized explanation of what the firm charges directly and what must be paid to outside providers. Do not treat a starting or direct-disposition price as all-inclusive without reviewing the listed exclusions and the itemization.

Limits and what to verify next

A Queens County registry listing answers a narrow question: whether the firm appears in the selected NYSDOH Opened Firms evidence for Queens, subject to the stated report revision and directory checks. It does not answer whether the firm is accepting new arrangements, has a particular facility, owns or operates a crematory, offers a particular package, serves a particular cemetery, or can meet a requested schedule.

Before selecting a firm, confirm the firm's current name, address, phone number, arranging director, requested services, itemized charges, and outside-provider amounts. Ask which costs are paid to the firm and which are paid elsewhere. Keep the answer tied to the specific arrangement rather than relying on a general label such as funeral home or cremation service.

If a death occurs at home in New York City, call 911. Responders and the Office of Chief Medical Examiner determine the next step. OCME services are provided at no charge to the family, but that does not make funeral-home or cemetery services free. Families unable to make arrangements or needing more time may seek guidance from OCME Outreach.

When a funeral home is involved, the arranging funeral director is the fastest route for death certificates and can order copies for up to one year after the death. This does not guarantee delivery time, and eligibility and other ordering routes remain governed by NYC Health. Verify the current process with the arranging director or the responsible city agency.

Questions people ask

The questions below address how to interpret the Queens-filtered registry and what to ask before making arrangements.

Evidence behind this page

Each point below is restricted to what the cited primary source supports. Administrative listing status is not a quality endorsement.