has weekly masses in English and Italian and some seasonal holiday masses in Irish. St. Barnabas Parish, founded in 1910, serves as a major community center for the neighborhood, which is nearly entirely Catholic, and a center of Irish culture, offering Irish language classes and an Irish Outreach program to assist Irish immigrants in finding jobs and residence in the neighborhood. In addition to the church, the parish runs an adjoining convent (currently occupied by the large and growing community of the Sisters of Life) and St. Barnabas Elementary School. St. Mark's Lutheran Church is on Saint Marks Place in Yonkers near the Van Cortlandt Park entrance. Transportation Woodlawn Heights is served by the buses operated by MTA Regional Bus Operations; by the Woodlawn station on the New York City Subway's ; and by the Woodlawn station on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line. See also Irish Americans in New York City References Further reading Photographs of Woodlawn. External links Official website created by the City of New York Neighborhoods in the Bronx Irish-American culture in New York City Irish-American neighborhoods