Mount Pleasant Cemetery is one of the oldest Jewish denomination cemetery locations that has been serving the needs of Hawthorne area, New York residents since 1899. As one of the oldest and well known cemeteries in the area, staff at Mount Pleasant Cemetery have long taken pride in their dedication to offering the best of services and options to grieving loved ones and family members.

The rich history of this cemetery, one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the area, offers a sense of security, loyalty and comfort to visiting family and loved ones as they walk among historical markers, statues, and trees planted generations ago to provide shelter and comfort for family visiting the grounds. Dozens of acres of manicured landscaping and the site of historic memorial markers and headstones offer visitors and loved ones a sense of permanency and dignity in this location.

Located north of New York City and White Plains in New York state, the grounds of Mount Pleasant Cemetery are also the final resting place of many famous area residents, including mathematician Guido Fubini, philanthropist and U.S. diplomat Henry Morgenthau Sr. and United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., as well as actress Lillian Roth and vaudeville stage performer Al Shean, among others.

Quiet, residential streets, blue skies, green lawns and a sense of nostalgia beckon and provide soothing comfort to visitors of this generations-old cemetery that has long provided burial and funeral options for grieving families. Located in Westchester County, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, as one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the northeast states, certainly brings with it decades of tradition, staff support, and compassion.

Mount Pleasant Cemetery may be accessed via the Saw Mill River Parkway or Sprain Parkway heading north from downtown New York City with a turn off onto state Routes 98, 100, or 141, which will bring travelers to W. Stevens Ave., with another turn off onto Commerce Street to enter the grounds of the cemetery.