Explore the Bronx’s Fordham, from neighborhood favorites to unique curated events. Start with the best-known things to do, then check out "What's happening" for upcoming limited events in Fordham.
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Edgar Allan Poe lived here with his wife, Virginia, and mother-in-law, Maria Clemm, beginning in 1846. You can visit their small early-19th-century home at Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, where the domestic scale sits in striking contrast to modern Fordham around it. This was Poe’s final home and the place where he wrote Eureka: A Prose Poem, a work that now informs the cottage’s next chapter.
The people who have made the Bronx home appear through photographs, manuscripts and firsthand accounts at Bronx Library Center. You can explore Latino life and migration through El Cuartito, its Latino and Puerto Rican Cultural Center, which also holds books and artwork. The fourth-floor reference room adds collections devoted to Bronx history and Edgar Allan Poe, extending a cottage visit into reading about the writer and the borough.
Osmar Perrones directs Yamulee Dance School on the Grand Concourse, southwest of the library, with an emphasis on fundamentals before advancing. If you’re beginning salsa, the work starts with the basics; more advanced sessions combine partnerwork with shines, the individual footwork dancers perform on their own. Spinning technique gets particular attention, breaking turns down into pivot mechanics and the balance needed to stay controlled while moving.
For plant lovers, the New York Botanical Garden offers a substantial separate continuation east of Fordham in neighboring Bronx Park. You can make the glass conservatory the focus, moving between tropical rainforest planting, vines and aquatic plants, and desert galleries filled with cacti. The palm dome adds another distinct environment to explore.
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Clearview Festival Productions brings a street fair to Fordham Road.
🚇 Fordham Rd (B D) · 4 min walk
🍴 Eat nearby · 3 places, closest 3 min walk
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The Everett Children's Adventure Garden is the part built for kids, and it runs alongside drop-in activities where children harvest vegetables and plant seedlings.
4.7★ from 12,994 Google reviews
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The Bronx River Forest trails run through floodplain forest along the banks of the restored Bronx River, a few steps from the New York Botanical Garden.
4.7★ from 3,564 Google reviews
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The Conservatory is a glasshouse you walk through gallery by gallery, and each one is a different habitat — aquatic plants and vines, tropical rain forest, cactus-filled desert.
4.8★ from 2,515 Google reviews
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This is a 19.75-acre neighborhood park in the Bronx with a playground, spray showers and a running track circling the middle.
4.5★ from 1,312 Google reviews
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You walk up to a thirty-foot cave of hand-cut fieldstone built in 1939 as a replica of the shrine at Lourdes, France, with a running waterfall and candles.
4.9★ from 1,263 Google reviews
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An outdoor skate park inside Williamsbridge Oval, a 19.75-acre neighbourhood park in the Bronx, at Holt Place and Reservoir Oval.
4.5★ from 1,146 Google reviews
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Everyone needs a ticket, and which one you buy decides what your day looks like.
4.7★ from 549 Google reviews
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Six floors of a public library branch, with the Bronx's largest lending collection of fiction and nonfiction on the third floor alongside an outdoor terrace.
4.3★ from 498 Google reviews
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There is a pop-up across from the Native Plant Garden where the Garden's Teen Explainers run seasonal activities and hands-on programs such as crafts and potting up plant seedlings.
4.7★ from 346 Google reviews
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The cottage on the Grand Concourse was Edgar Allan Poe's last permanent home, where he lived from 1846 to 1849 and wrote "Annabel Lee," "The Bells," "Ulalume" and "El Dorado." A permanent exhibit, Edgar Allan Poe at Fordham, uses multimedia to cover his life and writing during those years, and you walk through the rooms themselves.
4.4★ from 261 Google reviews
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A day spa offering massage in several forms, along with facial treatments and waxing.
4.7★ from 209 Google reviews
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A small shop selling trading cards and card games, with Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh among what's stocked.
4.5★ from 190 Google reviews
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This is a city recreation center with a mix of indoor and outdoor facilities: four outdoor basketball courts, eight outdoor tennis courts, an outdoor track, five outdoor shuffleboard courts and four playgrounds.
4.4★ from 144 Google reviews
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An indoor trampoline park where the attractions are listed by name: Freestyle Jump, Ultimate Dodgeball, Air Court, a Warrior Course, a Mega Launch, Racer Slide and Slide, Zip Line, Trapeze & Swing, Boulder Balls, iWall and tapWall, plus an arcade.
4.7★ from 144 Google reviews
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A Jesuit Catholic church on the Fordham University campus in the Bronx.
4.8★ from 124 Google reviews
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A 6,000 square-foot skate park on Bronx Park East between Britton Street and Allerton Avenue, with a smooth skating surface and a quarter pipe, bank ramps with ledges, a skate pyramid and grind rails.
4.3★ from 117 Google reviews
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Mind-Builders runs term-length arts classes for young people in the Northeast Bronx rather than drop-in activities — dance, music, theater and karate, taught in a session that runs from October through the spring.
4.8★ from 103 Google reviews
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A discount grocery store where the produce section draws the most attention.
4.4★ from 84 Google reviews
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Fordham University's 7,000-capacity stadium, home to the Rams' football, baseball and men's and women's soccer teams — so a visit means going to a game.
4.3★ from 77 Google reviews
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A single bronze sculpture rather than a destination in itself: three life-size figures, two riding horse-like sea creatures and one on a porpoise, on a marble pedestal.
4.6★ from 64 Google reviews
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This is a Tuesday farmers' market wrapping around the southern edge of Poe Park, running from late June through late November.
4.4★ from 60 Google reviews
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A party supplier rather than a place to go.
4.9★ from 58 Google reviews
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This is a dance school with a Bronx studio on East Kingsbridge Road, not a place to drop in and look around — children enroll and take classes, with ballet the discipline parents and students describe.
4.6★ from 57 Google reviews
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Yamuleé teaches salsa, and Saturdays are the family slot: Yamu KIDS for 4 to 10-year-olds runs 1:00-2:30pm and Yamu Teen for 11 to 17-year-olds runs 12:30-2:00pm.
4.6★ from 54 Google reviews
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Two stores on East Fordham Road cover different errands: athletic shoes at one, groceries and household supplies at the other.
Outside Fordham, Arthur Avenue Retail Market brings together Italian deli goods and a beer hall pouring New York State craft beer.
At the Bronx Zoo outside Fordham, families can choose between a forest exhibit with several species and closer encounters with smaller animals.
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