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The driver, Idowu Daramola of Queens, was arrested and charged with a number of offenses, including using a cell phone while driving. [25] [26] [27] Officials also stated that he was speeding; [18] however, this was later disputed by an investigator to the scene who concluded that there was insufficient evidence to determine the speed of the ...
Marble Hill, a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan, is physically located on the U.S. mainland, adjacent to the Bronx. Despite being legally a part of the borough of Manhattan, [9] per the Greater New York Charter of 1897, the neighborhood of Marble Hill is excluded from the Manhattan numbering plan areas 212, 646, and 332, instead using the 718, 347, and 929 area codes. [9]
The plaza is located near several attractions of Bronx Park, including the New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo. [ 4 ] [ 23 ] Fordham Plaza is part of the Fordham Road Business Improvement District , [ 21 ] [ 23 ] [ 28 ] which extends west to around Jerome Avenue past Grand Concourse and includes much of the "Fordham Center" commercial ...
Bronx Terminal Market, also known as Gateway Center at Bronx Terminal Market, is a shopping mall along the Major Deegan Expressway in Concourse, Bronx, New York.The center encompasses just under one million square feet of retail space built on a 17-acre (69,000 m 2) site that formerly held a wholesale fruit and vegetable market (also named the Bronx Terminal Market) as well as the former Bronx ...
The Bronx Board of Trade advocated for a Bronx central post office in 1925, [58] and U.S. Representative Benjamin L. Fairchild proposed allocating $1.5 million [viii] for the purpose that December. [53] The Board of Trade called on U.S. Postmaster General Harry New to begin constructing the post office building, an idea that New supported. [59]
Fordham Manor is located within Bronx Community Board 5 and Bronx Community Board 7, and its ZIP Codes include 10453, 10457, 10458 and 10468. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its main subway line is the IND Concourse Line ( B and D trains), operating under the Grand Concourse, with the IRT Jerome Avenue Line ( 4 train) on its western border.
The Joachimsthaler of the Kingdom of Bohemia was the first thaler (dollar). Dollar is the name of more than 25 currencies.The United States dollar, named after the international currency known as the Spanish dollar, was established in 1792 and is the first so named that still survives.
The Hub is the oldest major shopping locale in the Bronx. [8] Between 1900 and 1930, the number of Bronx residents increased from 201,000 to 1,265,000. [citation needed] Inhabitants throughout the borough shopped in department stores and boutiques at 149th Street and 3rd Avenue, an area that came to be known in this time as "the Hub".