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  • Irish and American flags fly along buildings on Oneida Avenue in Woodlawn.
    Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang, 2013
  • Children pass Irish pubs on Katonah Avenue near 235th Street in Woodlawn.
    Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang, 2013
  • 240th St. and Katonah Avenue in Woodlawn.
    Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang, 2013
  • Emerald Pharmacy on Katonah Ave. in Woodlawn.
    Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang, 2013
  • The Woodlawn neighborhood is wedged between 1,186-acre Van Cortlandt Park, pictured here, and Woodlawn Cemetery
    Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang, 2013
  • A duck swims along Muskrat Cove near the entrance to the Bronx River Parkway in Woodlawn.
    Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang, 2013
  • In its early days, the Irish population in Woodlawn was so large that it was once nicknamed “Irishtown,”
    Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang, 2013
  • Thomas Foley, an Irish immigrant, gets a haircut at Gavin Barbershop in Woodlawn.
    Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang, 2013
  • Sharon Loughnane laughs with a customer at the Rambling House Bar on Katonah Ave. in Woodlawn.
    Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang, 2013
  • The Metro North station in Woodlawn.
    Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang, 2013
  • Commuters at the Metro North station in Woodlawn.
    Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang, 2013
  • Younis Ali, manger of Greenland Deli, has lived in Woodlawn for 16 years.
    Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang, 2013
  • A bike path near Muskrat Cove, a hidden piece of woodland between the Bronx River Parkway and Metro North railroad tracks in Woodlawn.
    Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang, 2013
  • Prime Cuts, located in the heart of the commercial district on 238th St. and Katonah Ave., is a butcher shop that specializes in everything Irish, including corned beef and blood pudding.
    Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang, 2013

Woodlawn, located in the north Bronx, is a village within the city; where generation after generation grow up in pastoral row houses, are members of a 103-year-old church, and start their days greeting neighbors by name.

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