178 Bennett Avenue (one block west of Broadway at 189th
Street), NYC
Subway
A Train to 190th Street (Cloister's stop), take tunnel (not the
elevator) to Bennett Avenue, go south to 189th Street.
#1 Train to 191st
Street, take tunnel (not elevator) to Broadway, go south to 189th St. & west one block to Bennett Ave.
Bus
M100
& Bx7 to Broadway at 189th Street, walk west one block to Bennett Avenue
M4
bus to 187th Street, walk east down stairs continuing to Bennett Avenue, walk north to 189th Street
Car
From the North - Take the West
Side Highway/Henry Hudson Parkway to the Dyckman Street exit (it is a left exit). Turn left on Dyckman Street. Turn right
onto Seaman Ave at the second stop light onto Seaman Ave. Turn left on Riverside Drive at the first stop light. Make the first
right onto Broadway. Continue on Broadway for about half a mile. Make a right onto Bennett Ave. Follow Bennett several blocks.
The church is on the right at 189th St, #178 Bennett Ave.
From the South - Take the West Side Highway/Henry Hudson Parkway to the Dyckman
Street exit. Merge onto Riverside Drive. At Broadway, turn right. Continue on Broadway for about half a mile. Make a right
onto Bennett Ave. Follow Bennett several blocks. The church is on the right at 189th St, #178 Bennett Ave.
Broadway Parking
4501 Broadway
(between 192nd & 194th), (646) 796-9466
Fort Tryon Parking
900 W 190th St
(& Ft. Washington Ave), (212) 795-3670
Some street parking is also available.
Bennett Park
183rd-185th Sts.
at Ft. Washington Ave.
The park contains the point of highest elevation in Manhattan (265.05 feet above sea level)
and was also the site where the Revolutionary Battle of New York was lost. Bennett Park was named for James Gordon Bennett
(1795-1872), the newspaper man who in 1835 started the New York Herald. His son James Gordon, Jr., later ran the paper from
his Paris home and started what would evolve into the International Herald Tribune.
The Cloisters Museum
Margaret
Corbin Drive in Ft. Tryon Park, Recorded Information: 212-923-3700
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 9:30 a.m.–4:45 p.m. (Nov–Feb)
| 9:30 a.m.–5:15 p.m. (Mar–Oct)
Admission: $20 recommended for adults, $15 recommended for seniors, $10 recommended
for students
The Cloisters
house most of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of medieval art, including the Unicorn Tapestries and Robert Campin's
Annunciation Triptych.
Ft. Tryon Park
From
192nd to Dyckman Streets between Broadway and Riverside Drives (Main entrances on the north ends of Ft. Washington
& Bennett Avenues, and the intersection of Broadway, Dyckman (200th) Street & Riverside Drive)
The 67-acre
park was designed in 1935 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., son of the man who designed Central Park. The grounds were once part
of the Cornelius K.G. Billings estate and later given to the City by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in 1931. The park contains the
Cloisters Museum, New Leaf Café (the Billings stable turned restaurant) and a beautiful 600 foot terraced heather garden on
a bluff overlooking the Hudson River and the Jersey Palisades.
George Washington Bridge
“The most beautiful bridge in the world”
178th St. at Ft. Washington Ave. (to walk the bridge, go
west on the south side of 178th Street)
Rising 212 feet above the water, the main span is 3,500 feet long. When this
bridge opened in 1931 it was the world's longest suspension bridge.
Little Red Light House
At
the Hudson River under the GWB (A footpath to the lighthouse begins near the west end of 181st Street)
One of the
stars of the famous children’s book "The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge" by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift and
Lynd Ward.
107 West
811 West 187 Street
(b’tween Ft. Washington Ave & Cabrini Blvd), 212-923-3311
Tex-Mex
Bleu Evolution
808
West 187 Street (between Ft. Washington Ave. & Cabrini Blvd), 212-928-6006
Eclectic (Sunday Brunch, Outdoor Seating)
La Cabana Salvadorena
4384
Broadway Ave at 187th Street, 212-928-7872
Traditional Salvadorian
Don
Ricardo Steak House
4460 Broadway (at Fairview Ave), 212-567-5766
Argentine grill
Dońa Carmen Bakery/Cafe
4476 Broadway (at West 191st Street)
Bakery
Kismat
603 Ft.
Washington Ave. (at 187th Street), 212-795-8633
Traditional Indian
New Leaf Café
One Margaret Corbin Drive in Fort Tryon Park, 212-568-5323
New American cooking (Sunday Brunch, Outdoor Seating)
Next
Door
813 W 187th St. (between Ft. Washington Ave & Cabrini Blvd), 212-543-2111
Health-minded
cuisine (Weekend Brunch)
Pizza Delia
4417 Broadway (at 189th Street), (212) 304-2333
Pizza
