Van Cortlandt Park

Van Cortlandt Park is a 1,146-acre located in the borough of in . Owned by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, it is managed with assistance from the Van Cortlandt Park Alliance.
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Wikipedia
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Woodlawn Cemetery and Woodlawn Heights Library.

Cemetery
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
is one of the largest in and a designated National Historic Landmark. Located south of , it has the character of a rural cemetery.

Library
Photo: HugoHelp, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Metro station
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
is the northern terminal of the New York City Subway's IRT Jerome Avenue Line. The station is located at the intersection of Bainbridge and Jerome Avenues, outside Woodlawn Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Woodlawn and Fieldston.

Neighborhood
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Heights, also known as , is a predominantly Irish-American working class neighborhood at the very north end of the borough of in .

Neighborhood
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is a privately owned affluent neighborhood in the section of the northwestern part of the borough of . It is bounded by Manhattan College Parkway to the south, Henry Hudson Parkway to the west, 250th Street to the north, and Broadway to the east.

Neighborhood
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is a residential neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the borough of . , which had a population of 47,850 as of the 2000 United States census, contains the city's northernmost point at the University of Mount Saint Vincent.

Van Cortlandt Park

Latitude
40.89713° or 40° 53′ 50″ north
Longitude
-73.8838° or 73° 53′ 2″ west
Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)
Operator
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
Open location code
87G8V4W8+VF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 56384794
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
Geo­Names ID
5142150
Wiki­data ID
Q2915656
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Satellite Map

Discover Van Cortlandt Park from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yakut—“Van Cortlandt Park” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حديقة فان كورتلاند”
  • Basque: “Van Cortlandt Park”
  • Catalan: “Van Cortlandt Park”
  • Cebuano: “Van Cortlandt Park”
  • Chinese: “範可蘭公園”
  • Chinese: “範科特蘭公園”
  • Chinese: “范可蘭公園”
  • Chinese: “范科特蘭公園”
  • Dutch: “Van Cortlandt Park”
  • French: “Parc Van Cortlandt”
  • French: “Van Cortlandt Park”
  • Hebrew: “פארק ואן קורטלנד”
  • Indonesian: “Taman Van Cortlandt”
  • Indonesian: “Van Cortlandt Park”
  • Japanese: “ヴァン・コートラント・パーク”
  • Japanese: “ヴァン・コートランド・パーク”
  • Japanese: “ヴァン・コートランド公園”
  • Spanish: “Van Cortlandt Park”
  • Urdu: “وان کورٹلینڈ پارک”
  • Yakut: “Ван Кортландт Парк”

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