Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, East Kingsbridge Road and Grand Concourse, in Poe Park, is open year-round, on Saturdays and Sundays, and closed on major holidays. The house became a museum in 1917, and is now a National Historic Landmark.
Woodlawn Cemetery is the final resting place for Nellie Bly, Irving Berlin, George M. Cohan, Countee Cullen, Clarence Day, Harry C. Fisher, William Clyde Fitch, Jay Gould, W. C. Handy, Frank Belknap Long, George McManus, Herman Melville, Thomas Nast, Blanche Oelrichs, Joseph Pulitzer, Damon Runyon (Memorial), Francis Hopkinson Smith, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Religious goods store and book store.
Contact: Rick Pernod. Organization profile: Exoterica is a nonprofit, Bronx-based literary organization now entering its seventh year. Exoterica means accessible to the public, and it was my belief that if poetry was presented in a certain manner, people would not only come but would experience a gift which Stanley Kunitz called, “life-sustaining, life-enhancing, and absolutely … Continued
Bronx Writer’s Center – The Bronx Writer’s Center serves urban writers and readers of all ages. It’s core services include access to office equipment, workspace, and tools for writers, such as a research library focusing on publishing and free creative writing workshops. The Bronx Writer’s Center also sponsors two reading series in the Bronx.