Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, approximately 25 miles (40 km) 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 many 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 four trains stop daily, two northbound and two southbound. Several baseball players are buried here.
The upper entrance to Gate of Heaven Cemetery
Babe Ruth gravesite: Section 25, Plot 1115, Graves 3 & 4.
The new indoor building of Our Lady Queen of Peace Mausoleum
Garden Mausoleum with Saint Francis of Assisi Chapel in the background
Hawthorne is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located in the town of Mount Pleasant in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 4,586 at the 2010 census.
Hawthorne Metro-North station, June 2016
Fire Department Engine 155, a 1997 Pierce Lance 1500/750
Fire Department Tower Ladder 12, a 1983 Pierce Arrow/LTI 1500/150/85 ft.
Fire Department Ladder 56, a 2008 KME Predator 2000/5000/75 ft.