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Belmont, Fordham & Bronx Park, Bronx →The Bronx Zoo
2300 Southern Blvd · 265 acres, the largest metropolitan zoo in the country · Wednesdays are name-your-own-price
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More in Belmont, Fordham & Bronx Park, Bronx
- Arthur Avenue — The Real Little ItalyArthur Ave at E 187th St · Belmont · Salumerias, bakeries and butchers that have been there four generations
- Arthur Avenue Retail Market2344 Arthur Ave · Built by La Guardia in 1940 to get the pushcarts indoors · Cigars still rolled by hand at the back
- New York Botanical Garden2900 Southern Blvd · The Haupt Conservatory, and fifty acres of old-growth forest that was never cut
- Edgar Allan Poe Cottage2640 Grand Concourse · The farmhouse where he wrote Annabel Lee and watched his wife die · Free to walk the park around it
- Fordham University, Rose Hill441 E Fordham Rd · Collegiate Gothic on eighty-five acres · Keating Hall looks borrowed from Oxford
- Casa Della Mozzarella604 E 187th St · mozzarella pulled fresh while you watch — Arthur Avenue’s holy site