Woodlawn Cemetery

Cemetery · Bronx

Woodlawn Cemetery covers about 400 acres of rolling ground in the Bronx, just south of Woodlawn Heights and overlooking the Bronx River.

  • 0.64 square miles
  • 1 street corner
  • 5 bus routes

It opened in 1863, during the Civil War, on land that was then part of Westchester County, and from 1867 its trustees began moving from the rural-cemetery style toward a lawn-cemetery plan. It holds more than 300,000 graves and nearly 1,300 private mausoleums, many designed by leading architects and landscape designers, and was named a National Historic Landmark in 2011. A nonprofit conservancy, begun in 1999, offers tours and educational programs.

Sources: Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York) (Wikipedia); Our History (The Woodlawn Cemetery); Woodlawn Cemetery - Bronx (The Cultural Landscape Foundation).

Map

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Woodlawn Cemetery borders four areas.

Street map of Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, outlined among Williamsbridge-Olinville, Norwood, Van Cortlandt Park and Wakefield-Woodlawn.Wakefield-WoodlawnWilliamsbridge-OlinvilleNorwoodVan Cortlandt Park
  • Woodlawn Cemetery
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on five routes stop in or at the edge of Woodlawn Cemetery.

  • 4 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • Bx16
  • Bx31
  • Bx34
  • BX95

Express bus route

  • BxM4

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 1 crash at its one corner; the average Bronx corner had 8.0.

Camera tickets

In 2025 the Department of Finance recorded no red-light, school-zone speed or bus-lane camera ticket at its corners.

Streets and trees

Trees
328 in NYC Parks' records, most often Japanese tree lilac, eastern redbud and hawthorn

The corner

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.