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Moreover, South Bronx residents were reportedly burning down vacant properties, either for scrap or to get better housing, [255] while some landlords were doing the same in order to collect the insurance money. [256] Media attention brought the Bronx, especially its southern half, into common interest nationwide.
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.
The Bronx is the only New York borough with a Hispanic majority. At the 2010 Census, 53.5% of the Bronx's population was of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin (they may be of any race). At the 2009 American Community Survey, Puerto Ricans represented 23.2% of the borough's population, Mexicans made 5.2%. [17]
A man accused of assaulting random women in New York City was arrested Tuesday, police said. Daquan Armstead, 31, of East Bronx, was taken into custody on suspicion of hate-motivated assaults on ...
The Bronx is the part of New York where the city merges into the rest of North America. The process has never gone smoothly. From "Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough ...
Between 2011 and 2021, the share of South Bronx households below the federal poverty line declined from about 39.7% to 36.3%, according to a New York State Comptroller report on the South Bronx ...
On October 29, 1984, Eleanor Bumpurs was shot and killed by the New York City Police Department (NYPD). The police were present to enforce a city-ordered eviction of Bumpurs, an elderly and disabled African American woman, from her New York Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing unit at 1551 University Avenue (Sedgwick Houses) in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx.
Authorities say the women, who live six city blocks from each other in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the South Bronx, were racing one another, each driving in excess of 90 mph in a 50 mph zone ...