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The subsidized homes built along Charlotte Street during the late 1980s in Crotona Park East, which originally cost $50,000 [6] were the first and still are the only ranch style homes in the South Bronx today; these homes are now worth over $500,000. This type of housing was selected due to its desirable traits.
During this period he initiated work that would vastly improve the area. The New York Times in a March 1987 Metro Matters column called Charlotte Street “a metaphor for urban renaissance.” President Bill Clinton, upon visiting Charlotte Street in 1997, declared the South Bronx to be a model for inner-city renewal. [21]
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.
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 ...
Crotona Park is a public park in the South Bronx in New York City, covering 127.5 acres (51.6 ha).The park is bounded by streets of the same name on its northern, eastern, southern, and western borders, and is adjacent to the Crotona Park East and Morrisania neighborhoods of the Bronx.
The success of early efforts in the South Bronx became the model for community development throughout the country. [7] In 1997 President Bill Clinton toured Charlotte Street in the Bronx, one of the first LISC projects, and noted "Look at where the Bronx was when President Jimmy Carter came here in despair.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will host a campaign rally in the predominantly Hispanic and Black South Bronx neighborhood of New York on Thursday, targeting a ...
The hospital's name comes from its location, "southeast corner of Crotona Park East and Charlotte Street" [1] rather than "Crotona Avenue and Crotona Park South" [6] to which location Fordham Hospital moved in 1907.