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- 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.
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South Bronx. Coordinates: 40.81621°N 73.91735°W. South Bronx in orange; the rest of the borough is in yellow. The actual boundaries of the South Bronx are undefined. The Hub is the retail heart of the South Bronx. The South Bronx is an area of the New York City borough of the Bronx. The area comprises neighborhoods in the southern part of the ...
Originally denoting only Mott Haven and Melrose, the South Bronx extended up to the Cross Bronx Expressway by the 1960s, encompassing Hunts Point, Morrisania, and Highbridge. In the 1970s significant poverty reached as far north as Fordham Road.
Hip-hop's foundations were being laid in the 1970s, brick by brick, by DJs in the South Bronx, sometimes even in ...
Sep 28, 2016 · Today’s Bronx neighborhood of Morrisania is only a small portion of the original property owned by the Morris family since the 1670s, during the dawning years of British dominance in the New York region.
Apr 21, 2011 · Today’s Bronx neighborhood of Morrisania is only a small portion of the original property owned by the Morris family since the 1670s, during the dawning years of British dominance in the New York region.
Apr 15, 2015 · Casita Maria’s Elaine Delgado and Christine Licata sat down with us to talk about how the South Bronx’s cultural history relates to the devastation it suffered in the 1970s; the community-based process of identifying, selecting, and marking sites on the trail; and how these sites nurtured the area’s deep tradition of creativity. –J.T.
Jonas Bronck becomes the Bronx's first European settler. Scandinavian immigrant Bronck came to New York (then New Netherland) in 1639, settling in what's now Mott Haven. He helped broker a peace treaty between the Dutch and Native Americans in 1642, and died in 1643.
