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Monroe College established in the West Farms section of the Bronx. July 7: The Industrial Union Party DeLeonist political party is formed at 1032 Prospect Avenue. 1934 James J. Lyons becomes the sixth borough president (in office until 1962). [20] Bronx County Courthouse built. 1935 - Construction of the Mosholu Parkway begins. 1936
The Bronx (/ b r ɒ ŋ k s / BRONKS) is the northernmost borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New York City borough of Queens, across the East River.
All five boroughs were created in 1898 during consolidation, when the city's modern boundaries were established. The Bronx originally included parts of New York County outside of Manhattan that had previously been ceded by neighboring Westchester County in two stages; in 1874 (southern Yonkers, and the towns of Kingsbridge, West Farms, and ...
The Bronx was annexed from Westchester County by New York County (and New York City) in 1874 (west of Bronx River) and 1895 (east of it).Those two parts were established as a separate borough upon the consolidation of Greater New York in 1898, but was not legally established as a separate county, Bronx County, until 1914.
East Bronx: all parts of the Bronx east of the Bronx River (as opposed to Jerome Avenue) [1] [2] The Bronx River divides the borough nearly perfectly in half, putting the earlier-settled, more urban, and hillier sections in the western lobe and the newer, more suburbanesque coastal sections in the eastern lobe.
History of the Bronx (7 C, 75 P) N. Newspapers published in the Bronx (9 P) O. Organizations based in the Bronx (2 C, 8 P) P. People from the Bronx (16 C, 451 P) S.
(The County of Bronx, unlike the coextensive Borough of the Bronx, does not place the immediately before Bronx in formal references, nor does the United States Postal Service in its database of Bronx addresses.) [8] The name for this region, apparently after the Bronx River, first appeared in the Annexed District of the Bronx created in 1874 ...
[7] [12]: 3 [13] On April 19, 1883, the state passed a law authorizing a seven-person commission headed by association member Luther Marsh, which would be responsible for scouting out sites for future parks in the 23rd and 24th wards of New York City (now the portion of the Bronx that is west of the Bronx River). [14]