The cemetery is composed of two separate locations: the older section (main entrance is located at 1201 Balcom Avenue), and the newer section (where most present-day burials now take place), both east of the Hutchinson River Parkway.

There is also a special Garden of Innocents where still-born and young babies are laid to rest.

A portion of the St. Peters section was set aside in 1964 for the burial of the Archdiocese's clergymen.

Shortly after his son's kidnapping in 1932, aviator Charles Lindbergh and Bronx resident John Condon met with the alleged kidnapper at St. Raymond's to deliver $50,000 in ransom money.

Bruno Richard Hauptmann was convicted of the murder in 1935 and executed the following year.