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Building in the South Bronx built in 1909 and located on Simpson Street. The South Bronx was originally called the Manor of Morrisania, and later Morrisania.It was the private domain of the powerful and aristocratic Morris family, which includes Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Gouverneur Morris, the penman of the United States Constitution.
The Police Tapes was an important source for Fort Apache, The Bronx, a 1981 film with Paul Newman and Ed Asner. [13] It influenced the deliberately ragged visual style of the 1980s television police drama Hill Street Blues, which used handheld cameras to provide a sense of realism and immediacy—particularly during the morning roll call in each episode, which was based on a similar scene in ...
District 17 covers a series of neighborhoods at the heart of the South Bronx, including some or all of Crotona Park East, Melrose, Hunts Point, Concourse, East Tremont, Morrisania, Longwood, Port Morris, and West Farms. [4] Crotona Park, North and South Brother Islands, and The Hub are all located within the district.
As part of an investigation into James Slattery's private prison empire, The Huffington Post analyzed thousands of pages of court transcripts, police reports, state audits and inspection records obtained through state public records laws. Many of the documents behind the series are annotated below.
80 Blocks from Tiffany's documents the lives of gang members in the Grand Concourse area of the South Bronx, between 167th and 170th Streets. [1] The film focuses primarily on the members of two gangs, the Savage Skulls and the Savage Nomads, in an area with a high level of crime and urban decay. [1]
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 ...
The Savage Nomads were a mostly Puerto Rican and African American street gang started in the South Bronx area of The Bronx, New York during the late 1960s, gaining popularity in the 1970s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The gang was involved in a number of running battles with rival gangs Seven Immortals, Savage Skulls , and the Dirty Dozen.
The South Bronx rally was a rare midweek campaign event for Trump, as he has been in court four days a week in Manhattan for his criminal trial. (Lucia Buricelli for NBC News)