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2 days ago · On December 3rd 1641, Jonas Bronck, a Danish immigrant to New York City, bought about 500 acres of land above Manhattan. According to the Bronx Historical Society, the first settlement is in ...
Signing the Treaty with the Indians April 22, 1642, painted in 1908 by John Ward Dunsmore. Jonas Bronck (alternatively Jonas Jonsson Brunk, Jonas Jonasson Bronk, or Jonas Jonassen Bronck) (around 1600 – 1643) was an immigrant to the Dutch colony of New Netherland after whom the Bronx River, and by extension, the county and New York City borough of the Bronx are named.
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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. In true 21st-century NYC fashion, his legacy lives on in a craft brewery called the Jonas Bronck Beer Company. 1693 King's Bridge is built
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Jun 9, 1985 · It is only a warehouse on 132d Street near Lincoln Avenue in the Bronx, but to 28-year-old Brian G. Andersson of Yonkers it is home. It is home to Mr. Andersson's alter ego, Jonas Jonasson Bronck ...
June 23, 1980. The Bronck House, also known as the Pieter Bronck House, is a historic house museum west of Coxsackie in Greene County, New York. With a construction history dating to 1663, it is believed to be the oldest surviving building in Upstate New York, [3] and is a well-preserved example of early Dutch and Swedish Colonial architecture.
Jul 23, 2009 · In 1874, a dynamic and growing New York City annexed the part of today’s Bronx west of the Bronx River. That territory became part of New York City and New York County. In 1895, the lands east of the Bronx River were taken by the city as well. In 1898, the city took over Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. Along with Manhattan, they all ...
Aug 19, 2014 · Aug. 25, 2014. Because of an editing error, an article on Wednesday about Jonas Bronck and the connection between Savsjo, his hometown in Sweden, and what is now the Bronx — where he arrived 375 ...
