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Apr 17, 2024 · The Bronx, the only mainland borough, is connected to Manhattan by a dozen bridges and railroad tunnels and to Queens by the Robert F. Kennedy (formerly called Triborough), Bronx-Whitestone, and Throgs Neck bridges. The site was called Keskeskeck by the Indians who sold it in 1639 to the Dutch West India Company.
Apr 11, 2016 · Though it's only been a part of Greater New Yorker (otherwise known as the five boroughs) since 1898, the Bronx has a much longer history than that—one that goes way further back than when...
Oct 30, 2020 · Fun facts, history, people, and things from The Bronx you probably didn’t know Ed García Conde January 27, 2023 125 years ago, the five boroughs are joined to create today’s New York City
The following is a timeline of the history of the borough of the Bronx in New York City, New York, United States. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
BCHS, the historical agency for The Bronx, a county of New York State and a borough of the city of New York, is dedicated to the collection, preservation, documentation, and public interpretation of the history of The Bronx and lower Westchester County from its earliest human habitation by indigenous peoples through the present.
Aug 5, 2020 · 113. By Michael Kimmelman. Aug. 5, 2020. With more residents than Dallas, more than Atlanta and San Francisco combined, the Bronx is a vast, vibrant megalopolis, which also happens to be New York...
The Dutch. European contact with the Bronx first occurred almost 400 years ago. In 1609, Henry Hudson, probably the first European to see the shoreline, sought cover from a storm for his vessel...
