things to do in the bronx

okay so I live in nyc now and have gotten to know my way around brooklyn/queens but I still know basically nothing about the bronx. I've gotten the notion that it's not a place where you can just wander around.

what are some nice things to do / walks? don't say 'see a yankees game'. the grand concourse seems cool, is there a section that's particularly walkable? what neighborhoods are actually sketchy and what just looks sketchy? etc.

Bronx Little Italy
Botanic Gardens

There's this little district that realtors call "SoBro" - last time I was there it basically just had one artist loft building, one kind of nice little bar/restaurant/brunch place, and a couple of antique shops. There might be more than that by now since it was a few years ago.

The Grand Concourse has some amazing architecture on it but I don't know if there is much else interesting to see on it.

This restaurant on Arthur Avenue is amazing: http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/dominicks-restaurant/

Bronx Zoo

There are a lot of famous ppl buried in Woodlawn cemetery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlawn_Cemetery_(Bronx,_New_York)

always interesting community & cultural stuff happening at the point

http://www.wavehill.org/visit/

cool place

wait until spring tho

The Cloisters: http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/the_cloisters

^^^^not the bronx, but pretty close

also, you can walk around here
http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/vt_van_cortlandt_park/vt_van_cort_park.html

this place is kinda lol, mostly sad (because it's so deserted)
http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/hallofFame/

Oh well it might as well be The Bronx. ;p

My college boyfriend was from Woodlawn and grew up on Van Cortlandt park - it def has some nice parts.

Go to City Island and eat some clams (not a euphemism): http://www.cityisland.com/

Or Orchard Beach and party with the Puerto Ricans: http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/orchardbeach

the area in riverdale by the hudson (around wave hill) is very nice, some real expensive houses and very woodsy/suburban ( not super exciting, but pretty)

Yeah - it's really pretty but I don't know that there is really anything interesting for a tourist type to do there.

http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/parks_divisions/historic_houses/hh_edgar_allan_poe.html

this kinda covers all we've been mentioning
http://www.thirteen.org/bronx/sites15.html

the loew's paradise on the concourse is fucking amazing, saw flicks there as a kid but i don't know how you would get access to it now

YES!!!! The Lowe's is amazing. It's so pretty as is a lot of the art deco stuff around there.

I forgot about the Edgar Allen Poe house! Good call.

lol i grew up right next to the bronx, i know it (too) well
*weeps remembering misspent youth*

these movies mean a lot to me
The Wanderers vs. The Warriors

Where Westchester? Yonkers? I was with aforementioned guy for years so spent a lot of time there too.

Both of those movies are great but I LOVE The Wanderers. I haven't seen it in a long time. I should change that.

omg the opening credits just brought back so much of the movie that I'd forgotten about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzHA1WSgm0U

oh man, that alexander's is where my mom shopped, that fordham road/grand concourse intersection is VERY familiar to me

hahaha too funny

yeah, i caught the tail end of that blue-collar, white ethnic culture that the film depicts tbh, it was more or less gone by the end of the 80s

I think there is some of that still left over in certain areas though. I always found it pretty fascinating tbh.

"The Colonnade was designed with niches to accommodate 102 sculptured works and currently houses the busts and commemorative plaques of 98 of the 102 honorees elected since 1900."

WHERE ARE THE OTHER 4 ???

yeah, a couple enclaves in the bronx, like woodlawn, remain
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The school where my wife used to teach was near Grand Concourse & Fordham Road. I visited a few times - there was some good Dominican food in the area but not a whole lot else of interest to someone from out of the neighborhood. Although the terrain behind the school was really awesome and steep, and there were these bizarre old brick stairways that led from lower streets to higher streets - it looked like something from a castle.

Riverdale or Horace Mann? I used to coach LAX @ collegiate

bizarre old brick stairways that led from lower streets to higher streets

yeah upper manhattan & the bronx have lots of these

iatee, if you don't know this site you should check it out
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/NEIGHBORHOODS/neighborhoodhomepage/neighborhoods.html

I am velko! that's like my favorite site these days

(I mostly just wanted ilx's take on things)

there are some good suggestions in here. ny botanical garden in particular gets a huge thumbs up from me.

ill add that the theater on 161st across from the county courthouse is a fun place to see a movie. on tuesdays its either 6 or 8 dollars

nice flickr set on many of these places
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8742248@N07/sets/72157622471926090/

anyone going to the orchid show at the botanical gardens? might try to get up there today as some fresh air hangover cure

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/city_gift_of_green_to_trump_in_golf_iN2kO8YGlAgBXEw4jfopIK

Councilman James Vacca (D-Bronx), who’s been fighting to build a golf course at Ferry Point since 1979 and owns a home a few miles away, said he believes his district is better off with the course than a larger community park because it already has more parkland than most parts of the Bronx.

https://www.bronxdoc.org/exhibits/conzo/detail

CONZO
A LOOK BACK AT THE BRONX, 1977-84

OPENING RECEPTION
MAR 22, 2024 | 6 - 9PM
ON VIEW
MAR 22 - APR 21, 2024

Opening Reception: March 22, 2024 | 6-9PM
On View: March 22 - April 21, 2024

Born in 1963 in the South Bronx, Joe Conzo Jr. acquired a passion for photography as a young boy. By some combination of luck and circumstance, as a teenager Joe found himself at the very center of cultural and activist movements changing the Bronx. His father was the personal confidant of Tito Puente, promoting some of the biggest salsa shows of that time; his grandmother, Evelina López Antonetty, was a community activist known as the Hell Lady of the Bronx; and Joe’s classmates at South Bronx High School were literally birthing the culture of Hip Hop.

Starting at the age of 10, Joe began to carry his camera daily, photographing everything from school walkouts to the infamous fires ravaging the Bronx, to rap battles between the Cold Crush Brothers and other foundational Hip Hop groups. Forty-five years later, Joe’s images provide an unmatched and intimate document of the complex forces that created today’s Bronx.