Culture in Bedford Park

The New York Public Library's largest Bronx branch, a four-story building on East Kingsbridge Road with an auditorium, a gallery wall, a teen floor and the Bronx reference collection. It is open until nine four nights a week. There are tables with power. A public restroom is inside, and it costs nothing.

Mon to Thu, 9am to 9pm. Fri and Sat, 10am to 8pm. Sun, noon to 6pm. Individual floors keep shorter hours, with the concourse level 11am to 5pm

The small wooden farmhouse Poe rented in 1846 for three dollars a month, where his wife Virginia died and where he wrote Annabel Lee and Eureka. It was moved across the Grand Concourse into Poe Park in 1913 and the Bronx County Historical Society runs it for the Parks Department. The park around it has a 1925 bandshell and a visitor center, and that part is free and open whether the cottage is or not.

Thu and Fri, 10am to 3pm. Sat, 10am to 4pm. Sun, 1pm to 5pm. Five dollars, three concession. The Society asks you to book a time by phone or email. Poe Park itself is free and open daily