The Gate of Heaven Cemetery, approximately 25 miles north of New York City, was established in 1917 at 10 West Stevens Ave. in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, as a Roman Catholic burial site. Among its famous residents is baseball player Babe Ruth, whose grave has an epitaph by Cardinal Francis Spellman and is almost always adorned by a large number of baseballs, bats, and caps. Adjacent to the Garden Mausoleum is a small train station of the Metro North Railroad Harlem Division named Mount Pleasant where 4 trains stop daily, 2 northbound and 2 southbound. Several baseball players are buried here.

Notable interments

• Robert Abplanalp (1922–2003), American inventor of the aerosol spray valve
• Fred Allen (1894–1956), actor and comedian
• Thomas Breslin (1943–1992) Executive Vice President, National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees 1199C
• Heywood Broun (1888–1939), journalist
• Charles A. Buckley (1890–1967), United States Representative from New York
• Frances W. "Billie" Cagney (1899–1994), dancer and wife of James Cagney
• James Cagney (1899–1986), actor
• Emil A. Ciccotelli (1929–1998), Chief of Detectives, New York City Police Department
• Bob Considine (1906–1975), author
• Gyp DeCarlo (1902-1973), mobster
• Paul Dixon (1918 – 1974), television and radio entertainer
• Bella Dodd (1904–1969), activist, teacher, and attorney
• Jessica Dragonette (1900–1980), singer
• James Farley (1888–1976), Postmaster General and advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Lou Gehrig (1904-1941), HOF baseball player for New York Yankees
• Hector Guimard (1867–1942), architect and most prominent representative of the Art Nouveau movement in France
• Frank Hardart (1884–1972), son of founder of Horn & Hardart automat
• Julie Haydon (1910–1994), actress
• Anna Held (1872–1918), actress and singer
• Bess Houdini (1876–1943), wife of Harry Houdini
• G. Murray Hulbert (1881–1950), United States Representative from New York
• Ethel D. Jacobs (1910–2001), thoroughbred racehorse owner
• Peggy Hopkins Joyce (1893–1957), actress and socialite
• Arthur Judson (1881–1975), co-founder of CBS
• Dorothy Kilgallen (1913–1965), journalist, television personality
• T. Vincent Learson (1912–1996), IBM chairman, Ambassador at Large for Law of the Sea Matters
• Ernesto Lecuona (1896–1963), composer and songwriter
• James J. Lyons (1890–1966), Bronx Borough President from 1934 to 1962
• Tim Mara (1887–1959), founder of the NFL New York Giants
• Wellington Mara (1916–2005), owner of NFL New York Giants
• Billy Martin (1928–1989), Major League Baseball player/manager
• Malachi Martin (1921–1999), writer
• Pat McDonald (1871–1954), Olympic champion weight-thrower
• John McSherry (1944–1996), Major League Baseball umpire
• Sal Mineo (1939–1976), actor
• Condé Nast (1873–1942), publisher
• George Jean Nathan (1882–1958), drama critic
• Elliott Nugent (1896–1980), actor, director, and screenwriter
• John P. O'Brien (1873–1951), politician and mayor of New York City
• Richard W. O'Neill (1898–1986)- soldier & WWI Medal of Honor recipient
• Fulton Oursler (1893–1952), writer
• Westbrook Pegler (1894–1969), Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
• Mike Quill (1905–1966), founder of Transport Workers Union of America
• Dan Reeves (1912–1971), former owner of the NFL St. Louis Rams
• Babe Ruth (1895–1948), Hall of Fame baseball player
• Claire Merritt Ruth (1900–1976), wife of baseball great Babe Ruth
• Dutch Schultz (1902–1935), mobster
• Charles M. Schwab (1862–1939), steel magnate (remains later moved to St. Michael Cemetery in Loretto, Pennsylvania)
• Arnold Skaaland (1925–2007), professional wrestler
• Spyros Skouras (1893–1971), former president of 20th Century-Fox
• Lisa Steinberg (1981–1987), child murder victim
• James H. Torrens (1874–1952), politician
• Jimmy Walker (1881–1946), mayor of New York City
• William B. Widnall (1906–1983), former US Congressman
• Malcolm Wilson (1914–2000), Governor of New York
• Sal Yvars (1924–2008), Major League Baseball catcher
• One Commonwealth war grave, of a Royal Canadian Air Force airman of World War II.