Despite the grand plaque, it seems this specific site never became a pilgrimage point for visitors, who instead opt to visit the zoo’s lions, tigers, and bears.
Of the more than two million visitors who visit the Bronx Zoo each year, few pass through the gorgeous Art Deco Rainey Memorial Gates. Fewer still notice the plaque marking a “Fountain of Youth” located just down the path inside the gates, promising “good health and good fortune to all who drink there from,” attributed to an Italian legend.
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| Name | Since | Distance | |||
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| Concrete Plant Park | 2020 | 3.2km | site_ao | ||
| How Dutch is New York? – The Hudson Valley Tour en nl | 4.3km | site_izi | |||
| West Terrace at the Cloisters | 2020 | 4.7km | site_ao | ||
| Teitel Brothers | 2019 | 0.9km | site_ao | ||
| Cafe al Mercato | 2019 | 0.9km | site_ao | ||
| Shorakkopoch Rock | 2019 | 4.4km | site_ao | ||
| Nano Billiards Cafe | 2019 | 4km | site_ao | ||
| William Spain Seismic Observatory | 2019 | 1.2km | site_ao | ||
| Fordham Cemetery | 2019 | 1.2km | site_ao | ||
| The Oldest Dutch Colonial Farmhouse in Manhattan | 2018 | 4.1km | site_ao | ||
| Holiday Train Show at New York Botanical Garden | 2016 | 1.1km | site_ao | ||
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Grave | 2016 | 3.7km | site_ao | ||
| A Tiny Old-Growth Forest in the Bronx | 2018 | 1.1km | site_ao | ||
| United Palace Theatre | 2017 | 5.1km | site_ao | ||
| Begrisch Hall, Bronx Community College, City University of New York | 1959 | 3.1km | site_brutalism |
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