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Pelham Bay

The last stop of the 6: Ghanaian jollof, a 1935 diner, Italian bread — and the city's biggest park.

Photo: Bebo2good1 · CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pelham Bay is where the 6 train ends and the Bronx starts to feel like a shore town. The neighborhood of brick row houses and small frame homes runs along the elevated tracks on Westchester Avenue, and beyond the last stop lies Pelham Bay Park — at 2,772 acres the largest park in New York City, more than three times the size of Central Park, with Orchard Beach on its eastern edge.

The food is a portrait of who lives here now. An Italian bakery and a pizzeria that has worked out of the ground floor of a house since 1959 sit a few blocks from a velvet-and-goblets Ghanaian dining room by the train, where the jollof is the house signature. A diner that has served eggs since 1935 still draws a Sunday line, and a tiny coffee counter in a house on Crosby Avenue has become the neighborhood's morning stop.

Make a day of it: coffee and a pastry, a long walk in the park or out to the Bartow-Pell Mansion, a whole pie in a backyard, and dinner by the station. City Island is one bus ride further east.

The 6 train's elevated last stop at Pelham Bay Park

Italian bread and S-rolls under the Buhre Avenue station

Jollof and palm wine in a Ghanaian dining room

New York City's largest park at the end of the line

Local notes

Pelham Bay Park

At 2,772 acres, the largest public park in New York City and more than three times the size of Central Park, run by NYC Parks. It holds Orchard Beach along Pelham Bay, two golf courses, nature trails and a lagoon. The 6's last stop, Pelham Bay Park, sits at its western edge.

Bartow-Pell Mansion

A Greek Revival country house in the northern part of the park, finished by 1842, with Federal-style interiors and formal gardens. It is a National Historic Landmark and a house museum run by the Bartow-Pell Landmark Fund; the gardens are free to visit. Check its own site for open days.

Through the lens

The elevated stations at Buhre Avenue and Pelham Bay Park frame the neighborhood — shoot from street level as trains pull in, in morning light. In the park, the Orchard Beach promenade and the salt marshes are best at golden hour; the Bartow-Pell gardens are lovely in late spring.

Editorial draft — core details last reviewed October 19, 2026. Confirm practical details with the official site before you go.

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