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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
895 Shore Rd, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx
hours
Sat:Closed
Sun:Closed
Maximum people: 25 per tour
building date: 1836-1842
architect: Attributed to Minard Lafever; grounds restoration, Delano & Aldrich, 1914.

This Greek Revival mansion's gracious proportions, refined exterior stonework, cast-iron balconies, and period millwork exemplifies country living in 19th-century Pelham Bay.

subway: 6 to Pelham Bay.
bus: #45 Westchester Beeline Bus.


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Betances Community Center
465 St. Ann's Avenue, Bronx
neighborhood: Mott Haven
hours
Sat:Closed
Sun:Closed
building date: 2008
architect: Stephen Yablon Architect PLLC

A dramatic light-filled boxing arena forms the centerpiece of the Betances Community Center. Classrooms and game rooms form an interior courtyard that overlooks the luminous three-story boxing gym. An inventive reuse of two existing structures, the center is a beacon for youth in the South Bronx.

subway: 2 to 149th St.
bus: Bx19.


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Bronx Museum of the Arts, The
1040 Grand Concourse/ 165th St, New York
hours
Sat:Closed
Sun:Closed
Maximum people: 20
building date: 2006
architect: Simon B. Zelnik, 1961; renovation, Castro-Blanco, Piscioner, 1985; north wing addition, Arquitectonica, 2006.

A dramatic double-height lobby is the focal point of the museum extension. Exterior patterns of black and white blocks recall the neighborhood’s ubiquitous ornamental brick walls.



subway: D, B to 167 St/ Grand Concourse.
bus: Bx1, Bx2, BxM4 Express.


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Hall of Fame for Great Americans, Bronx Community College
University Ave/ W 181st St, Bronx
neighborhood: University Heights
hours
Sat:Closed
Sun:Closed
building date: 1900
architect: McKim, Mead and White

The first U.S. Hall of Fame is a NY landmark founded in 1900 to honor the nation's great leaders. Designed by Stanford White, the principal feature of the Hall of Fame is its 630-ft open-air colonnade. The three-building complex also includes the Beaux-Arts Gould Memorial Library Rotunda, modeled after the Roman Pantheon.

subway: 4 to Burnside Ave or 183rd St.
bus: Bx3, B12, Bx36, Bx40, Bx42.


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Melrose Commons
754 Melrose Ave/ E 156th St, Bronx
hours
Sat:Closed
Sun:Closed
Maximum people: 13 per tour
building date: 1993-ongoing
architect: Magnusson Architecture and Planning, PC

Melrose Commons is a 30-block urban renewal area comprised of different types of affordable housing. Bronx community group, Nos Quedamos (We Stay) and the architecture firm MAP worked together to design a redevelopment plan that reflects the community's need and aspirations.

subway: D to 161st St- Yankee Stadium, 2, 4, 5 to 149 St-Grand Concourse.
bus: Bx2, Bx4, Bx15, Bx19, Bx21, Bx32, Bx41, Bx55.
other transportation: Metro-North (Harlem Line) to Melrose.

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New York Botanical Garden, The
Bronx River Pkwy/ Fordham Rd , Bronx
hours
Sat:Closed
Sun:Closed
Maximum people: 30 per tour
building date: Designed 1896; built 1898-1901
architect: Robert W. Gibson

The grand neo-Renaissance style New York Botanical Garden Museum Building, along with the Fountain of Life, form a distinguished and monumental Beaux-Arts civic space within the largest botanical garden in the country. Founded in 1891 and located within Bronx Park, the Garden showcases one of the world's greatest collections of plants and serves as an educational center for gardening and horticulture.

subway: 4, B, D to Bedford Park Blvd, transfer to Bx26 to Garden's Mosholu Gate entrance.
bus: Bx26.
other transportation: Metro-North (Harlem Line) to Botanical Garden.

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St. Paul's Church
897 South Columbus Ave/ S 3rd Ave, Bronx
hours
Sat:Closed
Sun:Closed
Maximum people: 7
building date: 1763
architect: unknown

This stone church was once used as a field hospital in the Revolutionary War. Climb its 225-year-old wooden staircase, see its 1758 bronze bell, and walk through its historic cemetery.

subway: 5 to Dyer Ave, walk 5 blocks.
bus: W55 to South Columbus Ave.
other transportation: Hutchinson River Parkway to Exit #7 (Boston Post Rd), follow signs to the site.

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Van Cortlandt House Museum
Van Cortlandt Park, Bway/ W 246th St, Bronx
neighborhood: Riverdale
hours
Sat:Closed
Sun:Closed
building date: 1748
architect: unknown

This Georgian fieldstone country house was once home to NYC’s prominent Van Cortlandt family, and was General George Washington’s headquarters in 1776 and 1783.

subway: 1 to 242nd St.
bus: BxM3, Bx9


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Wave Hill
W 249th St/ Independence Ave, Bronx
hours
Sat:Closed
Sun:Closed
Maximum people: 30 per tour
building date: 1843
architect: Original Wave Hill House, William Lewis Morris; Perkins Visitor Center, Robert A.M. Stern, 2004.

The garden offers spectacular views overlooking the Hudson River, the Palisades, and historic mansions. Wave Hill was once home to Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, and Arturo Toscanini.

subway: 1 to 242st St, transfer to Wave Hill Shuttle, which meets at 10 minutes past the hour from 9:10 am to 3:10 pm.
bus: Bx7, Bx10, BxM1, BxM2.
other transportation: Metro-North (Hudson Line) to Riverdale.

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Woodlawn Cemetery
Webster Ave & E 233rd St or Jerome Ave/ Bainbridge Ave, Bronx
hours
Sat:Closed
Sun:Closed
Maximum people: 30 per tour
building date: 1863
architect: James C. Sidney; Charles Wellford Leavitt, 1875-1940.

More than 1,300 private mausoleums, many of which were designed by well-known architects, dot this meticulously planted landscape. Tour private mausoleums by designers such as McKim, Mead & White, Carrere & Hastings, John Russell Pope, Tiffany and Hunt & Hunt.

subway: 2 to E 233rd St, 4 to Woodlawn.
bus: Bx16, Bx34.
other transportation: Metro-North (Harlem Line) to Woodlawn.

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