Beth,

Several NY (and one NJ) cemetery is searchable here:
Searching the Cemetery Databases
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/erc-scdb.htm

You can search NYC death cert index here:
https://stevemorse.org/vital/nydeath-igg.html
The cert will list name of cemetery.

FamilySearch has transcriptions of some info of the NYC death certs:
https://stevemorse.org/vital/nyvital.html?type=death

Old digitized NY (and now other states) newspapers can be searched here:
https://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
You can search by name or address.

Regards,
Sherri Bobish
Princeton, NJ