Bronx history

In the mid-1920s, a group of immigrant Jewish factory workers decided that they’d come this far for something better than the slums they inhabited. So pooling resources, they orchestrated the construction of four cooperatively owned and run apartment complexes in the Bronx, with practical goals for a better quality of life, and idealistic visions of...

Full tour of the Bronx hoods with a map of Bronx gangs areas in Mott Haven, Highbridge, Soundview, Wakefield, Hunts Point, and more

Dion on 187th St. and Arthur Avenue.

Photographs of Square Theatre

Check out these 13 old Bronx pics of our borough you may or may not recognize! Some of these images are over 100 years old!

Photographs of the Bronx when it was mostly undeveloped in 1897. Open land and spacious, elegant houses dominated the landscape.

South Bronx, 1975

This used book is in Good condition. Life In The Bronx Series For the past 20 years, The Bronx County Historical Society has been at work on a history of life in the borough series. In 1979, the first book, The Beautiful Bronx: 1920-1950 was published, and this was followed in 1985 by The Bronx In The Innocent Years: 1890-1925, and then in 1992 by The Bronx It Was Only Yesterday: 1935 - 1965. In 2000, The Birth of The Bronx 1609-1900 becomes the fourth in the series. Splendid works of social…

The Bronx's reputation as a great place to live and work was justified. Let's continue our look at the Bronx in 1897 from the book The Great North Side.

The BQE, this isn't: The Grand Concourse, which stretches four miles throughout the Bronx, is far from your average highway. It's one of New York’s most impressive, historic thoroughfares—as the name suggests, it's a grand, wide roadway separated into different parts by tree-lined medians and flanked by apartment buildings, businesses, and imposing civic structures on either side. It was built between 1894 and 1909, during the height of the City Beautiful Movement, a North American…