Woodlawn Cemetery
Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City and a designated National Historic Landmark. Located south of Woodlawn Heights, Bronx, it has the character of a rural cemetery.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in the Bronx, New York City
- Also known as: “Woodlawn Cemetery and Mausoleum”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gould family mausoleum and Woodlawn station.
Gould family mausoleum
Tomb
Photo: Anthony22, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gould family mausoleum is a tomb, which is situated 1,000 feet north of Woodlawn Cemetery.
Woodlawn station
Metro station
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
The Woodlawn station 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. Woodlawn station is situated 2,000 feet west of Woodlawn Cemetery.
Van Cortlandt Park
Park
Photo: Anthony22, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Van Cortlandt Park is a 1,146-acre park located in the borough of the Bronx in New York City. Owned by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, it is managed with assistance from the Van Cortlandt Park Alliance.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woodlawn and Norwood.
Woodlawn
Neighborhood
Photo: DanTD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woodlawn Heights, also known as Woodlawn, is a predominantly Irish-American working class neighborhood at the very north end of the borough of the Bronx in New York City.
Norwood
Neighborhood
Norwood, also known as Bainbridge, is a residential neighborhood in the northwest Bronx, New York City, U.S. It is bound by Van Cortlandt Park and Woodlawn Cemetery to the north, the Bronx River to the east, and Mosholu Parkway to the southwest.
Williams Bridge
Neighborhood
Williamsbridge is a neighborhood geographically located in the north-central portion of the Bronx in New York City. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are East 222nd Street to the north, Boston Road to the east, Adee Avenue to the south, and the Bronx River to the west.
Woodlawn Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Bronx, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.88829° or 40° 53′ 18″ northLongitude
-73.87198° or 73° 52′ 19″ westElevation
148 feet (45 metres)Open location code
87G8V4QH+86OpenStreetMap ID
way 43317041OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Woodlawn Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Վուդլոն”
- Asturian: “cementeriu de Woodlawn”
- Belarusian: “Вудлан”
- Catalan: “Cementiri de Woodlawn”
- Chinese: “伍德劳恩公墓”
- Chinese: “伍德勞恩公墓”
- Chinese: “伍德勞恩墓園”
- Chinese: “伍德勞恩墳場”
- Chinese: “伍德朗公墓”
- Chinese: “伍德羅恩墳場 (布朗克斯)”
- Chinese: “木地公墓”
- Chinese: “林蔭公墓”
- Czech: “Woodlawn Cemetery”
- Dutch: “Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx)”
- Dutch: “Woodlawn Cemetery”
- Esperanto: “Woodlawn Cemetery”
- French: “cimetière de Woodlawn”
- French: “Cimetière de Woodlawn”
- French: “Woodlawn Cemetery”
- Galician: “Cemiterio de Woodlawn”
- Georgian: “ვუდლონის სასაფლაო”
- German: “Woodlawn Cemetery”
- Greek: “κοιμητήριο Γούντλον”
- Hebrew: “בית הקברות וודלואן”
- Hungarian: “Woodlawn Temető”
- Indonesian: “Pemakaman Woodlawn”
- Irish: “Reilig Woodlawn”
- Italian: “cimitero di Woodlawn”
- Italian: “Woodlawn Cemetery”
- Japanese: “ウッドローン墓地”
- Manx: “Ruillick Woodlawn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Woodlawn gravlund”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Woodlawn gravlund”
- Persian: “گورستان وودلاون”
- Portuguese: “Cemitério de Woodlawn”
- Romanian: “cimitirul Woodlawn”
- Russian: “Вудлон”
- Russian: “Кладбище Вудлон”
- Slovenian: “Woodlawn Cemetery”
- Spanish: “Cementerio de Woodlawn”
- Spanish: “Cementerio Woodlawn”
- Swedish: “Woodlawn begravningsplats”
- Tagalog: “Woodlawn Cemetery”
- Ukrainian: “Вудлон”
- Urdu: “ووڈ لان قبرستان”
- Vietnamese: “Nghĩa trang Woodlawn”
- Welsh: “Mynwent Woodlawn”
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