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Riverdale, Pelham Bay & City Island, Bronx: the Gothamly guide
Hand-picked by Gothamly and checked against each place’s own site. Nobody paid to be here.
- Tue–Sun
Wave Hill
4900 Independence Ave, Riverdale · A public garden on the bluff, with the Palisades straight across the Hudson
- Daily
Van Cortlandt Park
Broadway at W 242nd St · Free · The 1748 Van Cortlandt House is the oldest building in the borough
- Daily
Woodlawn Cemetery
Webster Ave at E 233rd St · Free · Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Celia Cruz and Herman Melville, in four hundred landscaped acres
- Daily
Pelham Bay Park
Bruckner Blvd · Free · Three times the size of Central Park, and most New Yorkers have never set foot in it
- Summer
Orchard Beach
Pelham Bay Park · The Bronx Riviera · Robert Moses’ 1930s bathhouse still anchors the crescent
- Always
City Island
City Island Ave · A mile-and-a-half fishing village with clapboard houses and fried seafood, inside the city limits
- Wed & Sat–Sun
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
895 Shore Rd · An 1842 Greek Revival house with a sunken formal garden on Long Island Sound
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