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The Bronx (Bronx County)
The Bronx (yellow) within the City of New York (gray).
Administration
Country	United States
State	New York
Chief town	New York City
Foundation	1914 (as a county)
Area
Total	148.7 km
Earth	108.9 km
Water	39.8 km (26.77%)
Population
Total (recens. 2000)	1,332,650 inhab.
Density	12 237.37 inhabitants / km

The Bronx is one of five constituencies ( boroughs ) of the City of New York to U.S. (including Manhattan , Brooklyn , Queens and Staten Island ). It coincides with the County of Bronx administrative division of the New York State , but does not work like other counties in the state. In 2000 , its population was 1,332,650 inhabitants. Its name comes from Jonas Bronck, emigrant, Sweden was the first to colonize this area ^History

Originally the land is inhabited by Siwanoy, a Native American clan, who founded several villages .

The territory of the Bronx originally belonged to the Westchester County and had four cities: Westchester, Yonkers, Eastchester and Pelham. In the nineteenth ^century , the neighborhood welcomes immigrants Protestants , Catholics ( Irish and Italian ) and a Black ethnic community outcome of Haiti and West Africa. In 1846, a new town, West Farms, was created by detaching itself from Westchester. Other subdivisions have emerged: Morrisiana in 1855 (after West Farms) and Kingsbridge in 1873 (after Yonkers).

In 1874, the western part of the current Bronx (Kingsbridge, Morrisania and West Farms) was transferred to the County of New York, followed in 1895 in Westchester and some parts of Eastchester and Pelham and City Island in 1896. The first subway line was installed in 1904. After annexation by the City of New York, these neighborhoods from Westchester County in 1914 banded together to form the county of Bronx. The 1920s saw the construction of Yankee Stadium. After the Second World War , the renovation of several neighborhoods in Manhattan (slum clearance) causes an influx of blacks and Puerto Ricans in the neighborhood already known for its social problems. The Bronx is now one of the most sensitive of New York, where various traffic sully his reputation.

Geography

The Bronx is the borough 's most northerly of the City of New York and the only one located on the continent, as Manhattan and Staten Island are islands in its own right and that Brooklyn and Queens occupy part of Long Island. The Bronx is located in southern Westchester County. It also includes several small islands in the East River and Long Island Sound. Its total surface area is 149 square kilometers, including 109 square miles of land area and 40 sq km of water. The Bronx is the only district in New York to have a freshwater river: The Bronx River. Although it is the third densest county in the country after Manhattan and Brooklyn, about a quarter of its land area is occupied by parks, a 28 km , which, in the north, the largest of New York, Pelham Bay Park and Van Cortlandt Park and the western shore of the Bronx River, Woodlawn Cemetery , one of the largest cemeteries in the city.

Most streets are numbered from the Bronx, but unlike in Brooklyn and Queens, the system extends the Bronx from Manhattan. Thus, the street numbering begins at 135.

The Bronx is served by several subway lines, most airlines.

The cost of housing is much lower than in Manhattan but there are also posh neighborhoods, including Riverdale and Country Club Estates.

Demographics

Population Change

Year	Population
1900	200 507
1910	430 980
1920	732 016
1930	1 265 258
1940	1 394 711
1950	1 451 277
1960	1 424 815
1970	1 471 701
1980	1 168 972
1990	1 203 789
2000	1 332 650

In the 2000 census there were 1,332,650 people, 463,212 households and 314,984 families in the Bronx. The population consisted of 30% of people "whites" of European origin, 36% of African-Americans , 3% of Asians , with the remainder from other origins. 48% of the city from the Bronx is Hispanic. 48% of the population speaks English at home, and 46% would speak Spanish. Other languages or groups of languages spoken at home by more than 0.25% of the population of the Bronx include: the Italian (1.36%), Kru , Ibo , or Yoruba (language of Nigeria ) (1.07 %), French (0.72%) and Lingala (0.54%). 30% of the population of the Bronx is under 18 years.

According to estimates by the Census Bureau United States , the borough's population was 1,361,473 persons in 2006 .

Interests

• The Yankee Stadium , where the team played baseball the New York Yankees.
• The Bronx Zoo opened in 1899.
• The Hall of Fame for Great Americans , the first memorial of its kind.
• The botanical garden Wave Hill
• The New York Botanical Garden , established in 1891, has 48 gardens and plant collections (rose garden, conifers, Japanese garden, herbarium ...) and a library of 50,000 books. There is a protected area of the original forest that covered all of New York before the arrival of the first settlers in the seventeenth ^century.
• An Italian neighborhood around Arthur Avenue.
• Fordham University, "high school" private Catholic, created by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1841. The university chapel is a monument and houses the ancient altar of the Cathedral of St. Patrick. The windows were donated by Louis-Philippe I , King of the French.

The Bronx is also home to music Hip Hop (see Zulu Nation )

The Bronx in popular culture

• Books:
  • Tom Wolfe , The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Movies:
  • Fort Apache: The Bronx , narrating the lives of police officers in the Bronx.
  • It was once the Bronx , the first film Robert De Niro as director, released in 1993.
  • Finding Forrester , which chronicles the rise of a teenager from the Bronx.
  • Beat Street , which tells the story of youth in the Bronx hip-hop universe in 1984.
  • Wild Style , which tells the beginnings of hip-hop culture in 1982.
  • Rumble in the Bronx , narrating the arrival of an Asian in the Bronx.

References

External Links

• (En) Site of Borough President
• (In) I Love the Bronx (information about life in the Bronx)
• (In) Official Website Wave Hill
• (In) Official Website of Arthur Avenue

The five boroughs of New York
The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island

List of neighborhoods of the borough of the Bronx in New York
Allerton Baychester Bedford Park Belden Point Belmont ( Arthur Avenue ) Castle Hill City Island Clason Point Concourse Co-op City Country Club East Bronx Eastchester East Morrisania East Tremont Edenwald Fieldston Fordham Fordham-Bedford Harding Park Highbridge Hudson Hill Hunts Point The Hub Kingsbridge Kingsbridge Heights Locust Point Longwood Melrose Morrisania Morris Heights Morris Park Mott Haven North Bronx North New York North Riverdale Norwood Olinville Parkchester Pelham Bay Pelham Gardens Pelham Parkway Port Morris Riverdale Silver Beach Soundview South Bronx Spuyten Duyvil Throggs Neck Tremont University Heights Van Cortlandt Village Van Nest Wakefield West Bronx West Farms Williamsbridge Woodlawn