City officials are dying to sell Canarsie Cemetery.
The only graveyard owned by the Big Apple has been on and off the market for 25 years, and is again up for grabs.
But the 13-acre Brooklyn property near Jamaica Bay — with room for 4,000 additional plots — is a tough sell with strings attached.
Bidders must represent a nonprofit business already running cemeteries in the state of New York, and buyers must already be in the boneyard business.
“The city inherited this former town cemetery over a hundred years ago,” said Department of Citywide Administrative Services Commissioner Martha K. Hirst.
Some area residents said they would not be disappointed if the sale did not go through.
“We’re very much against having this sold,” said Sarah Pennacchio, 87, whose husband is buried there. “They take very good care of the cemetery. I’m worried about what would happen.”
Among the notable figures interred there is John H. Nolan, a local Civil War veteran who was known as the Union army’s “little drummer boy” in the Battle of Cedar Creek.