Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and The Friends of The Woodlawn Cemetery will introduce English and Spanish audio tours of the historic Woodlawn Cemetery located at Webster Avenue & E. 233rd Street in the Bronx, at 10am on Friday July 16th At the Woodlawn Cemetery located at Webster Avenue & E. 233rd Street in the Bronx.
The project is made possible through a grant from the NYC & Company Foundation to the Friends of Woodlawn Cemetery which was supported by Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. The project was arranged for by The Bronx Tourism Council which helped to produce it. The Council is a program of the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (BOEDC).
Established in 1863, the cemetery’s cultural significance is represented in the famous names that grace its monuments and mausoleums: Herman Melville, FW Woolworth, JC Penny, Jay Gould, Ralph Bunche, Fiorello LaGuardia, Robert Moses, Irving Berlin, George M. Cohan, Duke Ellington, RH Macy, Miles Davis, Bat Masterson and Joseph Pulitzer.
The audio tour will also highlight the architectural works of acclaimed architects Charles McKim, William Rutherford Mead, Stanford White, Daniel Chester French and John Russell Pope who designed some of Woodlawn’s 1500 significant monuments and mausoleums. The Woodlawn Cemetery features over 400 acres of rolling hills, spectacular trees and shrubbery, monumental mausoleums and memorials and a natural fauna/flora sanctuary.
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