Woodlawn
Published 10/02/2020
Irish immigrants have settled in this far-north section of the Bronx, which has attractive blocks of low-lying buildings and one of the City's most hallowed resting places.
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Woodlawn Cemetery
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Webster Ave. & E. 233rd St.; second entrance: Jerome Ave. at Bainbridge Ave.
Take a trip to this pastoral burial ground to visit the graves of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who helped shape the suffrage movement, and Nellie Bly, a well-known investigative journalist in the late 1800s. Other notable figures interred in the 400-acre cemetery include Miles Davis, Robert Moses, Duke Ellington and Herman Melville.
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Van Cortlandt Park
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Broadway and Jerome Ave.
The park holds many recreational opportunties—for fishing, running and bird-watching, to start. Also on the grounds is the nation's first public golf course.
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Rambling House
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4292 Katonah Avenue
When you need a pint of Guinness, an Irish breakfast or shepherd's pie, this Irish-American pub has you covered.