Explore the Bronx’s Mott Haven, 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 Mott Haven.
These special events are sourced from the web and social media, then carefully curated based on cool and unique events you might enjoy doing in Mott Haven.
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Along Alexander Avenue, you’re walking through a residential neighborhood whose nineteenth-century buildings still shape the street. Rows of houses stand alongside civic buildings, with some of the early Bronx rowhouses dating to 1863–65. The historic district spans East 138th to East 141st Streets. Across those blocks, stoops, iron fences and cornices give you details to follow from one façade to the next.
Bronx resident Noëlle Santos opened The Lit. Bar in 2019, creating an independent bookstore where you can also sit with a glass of wine. Its general-interest selection emphasizes local interests and diverse voices, with books for readers of all ages. Santos’s curated lists offer specific routes through the selection beyond the bestseller table, whether you’re browsing for yourself or looking for a younger reader.
Siblings Amaurys and Roselyn Grullon put Bronx and Puerto Rican identity at the center of Bronx Native, their South Bronx clothing and art brand. In the Lincoln Avenue shop, you can browse graphic tees, hoodies, caps and accessories featuring Bronx lettering and designs rooted in those identities.
Sisters Karen and Britney Cariño founded Talavera Cantina in 2023, bringing Mexican ingredients into cocktails on Bruckner Boulevard. You can try that approach in the Mole Old Fashioned: mole fat-washed corn whisky joins mezcal, syrup, bitters and orange.
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1 thing worth doing in the next 7 days · Friday, October 16th – Thursday, October 22nd
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
 Movies Under the Stars: Minions & Monsters | Fri, Oct 16 | South Playground (in Rev. T. Wendell Foster Park and Recreation Center ), Rev. T. Wendell Mott Haven · Bronx | 8:00 pm |
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You can watch Minions & Monsters outdoors at South Playground through the city's Movies Under the Stars series.
🚇 161 St-Yankee Stadium (4 B D) · 5 min walk
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Alongside a Yankees game, the stadium runs guided tours covering the team's history, and the New York Yankees Museum is inside.
4.7★ from 60,496 Google reviews
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A contemporary art museum in the South Bronx showing rotating exhibitions — currently the Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of Connection and the Lifelong Studio: Alternative Archives show, both running to early September.
4.4★ from 1,421 Google reviews
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You walk a rose garden set down in a valley, laid out in rectangular beds, with more than 650 varieties in bloom from May to October.
4.7★ from 528 Google reviews
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Browse the shelves at the front — a curated general-interest selection with an emphasis on African American and Latinx writers, plus gift items and a children's section — then carry what you have picked to the wine bar at the back and read over a glass of red, white or rosé.
4.8★ from 426 Google reviews
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A farmers' market with a wide range of stalls, covering fresh produce, seafood and plants.
4.3★ from 407 Google reviews
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This is the 400-metre track inside Macombs Dam Park, completed in 2010 alongside the new Yankee Stadium.
4.5★ from 392 Google reviews
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Riders session the ramps at what locals still call Mullaly Skatepark, directly across East 164th Street from Yankee Stadium — the oldest skate park in the city, opened in 1988, and in the early 1990s the only place in New York that could be called one.
4.3★ from 332 Google reviews
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An active Roman Catholic parish church at 627 East 187th Street, at the corner of Belmont Avenue in the Bronx's Little Italy, three blocks south of Fordham University.
4.9★ from 304 Google reviews
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A secondhand shop where the stock covers clothing, electronics, books and household goods.
4★ from 303 Google reviews
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This is a ballfield inside Macombs Dam Park, in the shadow of Yankee Stadium.
4.4★ from 252 Google reviews
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The museum runs a new hands-on activity each week in its Wonder Room — one week painting by kicking a soccer ball around a canvas, the next a soccer STEM experiment testing how different ground surfaces change the way a ball moves.
4.6★ from 211 Google reviews
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4.7★ from 138 Google reviews
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A studio on Gerard Avenue running yoga, dance and fitness classes, with classes described as open to every body and beginners welcome.
4.8★ from 136 Google reviews
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Sixteen tennis courts at Mill Pond Park on the Harlem River just south of Yankee Stadium — twelve of them indoors under a dome from October through April — plus four pickleball courts by reservation.
4.4★ from 129 Google reviews
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A cultural center presenting concerts, comedy, spoken word, dance and film, alongside classes and workshops in music, movement and cultural learning for all ages and experience levels.
4.8★ from 121 Google reviews
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A small neighborhood library branch with books and public computers.
4.5★ from 112 Google reviews
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A Bronx venue housed in a Gothic-revival building, where the programming runs across dance, performance art and film screenings.
4.7★ from 111 Google reviews
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A New York Public Library branch.
4★ from 81 Google reviews
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A Tuesday farmers' market on the Grand Concourse beside Joyce Kilmer Park, with growers up from the Hudson Valley and beyond: Migliorelli Farm brings cider and cider doughnuts, Tivoli Mushrooms specialty mushrooms, Caradonna Farms orchard fruit and berries, plus honey, breads and pastries.
4.7★ from 68 Google reviews
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This is a children's dance school on Williamsbridge Road, not a drop-in outing — children enroll in classes and train across a season.
4.9★ from 27 Google reviews
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A family-oriented dance studio on Westchester Avenue that enrolls students by season rather than taking casual visitors, with a pre-school class among its offerings.
4.7★ from 25 Google reviews
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You can pick up takeout at Pio Pio 4 or sit down for New American food at Charlies Bar & Kitchen.
You can run laps at St. Mary’s Park or follow longer waterfront routes on Randall’s Island.
In Hunts Point, you can explore women’s graffiti careers at BronxArtSpace or the En Foco fellowship exhibition opening Friday, October 16.
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