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Oct 30, 2020 · According to Bronx County historian Lloyd Ultan, “The” stuck as part of the name when the borough was named after the Bronx River which runs right through it (which was named after the first European settler in our borough, Jonas Broncks).
May 4, 2020 · The Bronx would reunite into its own borough in 1898, and in 1914, Bronx County was established.
Apr 22, 2024 · Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson promoted the Bronx as “a borough of legends” and promised big funding for local projects in her second State of the Borough address on Thursday, April 18.
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Bronx, NY – On March 1st, 2023, Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson delivered her first State of the Borough address at Manhattan College, outlining the accomplishments made by her administration in 2022 and unveiling a bold strategic agenda for 2023. With the theme, “Borough of Opportunities,” emblemizing the future ahead, Borough President ...
The Borough President is working to reinstate the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, which will help bring economic opportunities to...The nearly finalized U.S. Small Business Administration’s Community Advantage Loan Program will allow the Bronx Business Initiative Corporation of New York to approve loans from $25,000 to $350,000...In New York City, Black women are 9.2 times more likely than white women to die from maternal complications. To address this issue in the Bronx, the Borough President will soon release a borough-wi...
The Office of the Bronx Borough President is building a coalition of stakeholders and experts to establish a borough-wide Diabetes Task Force to address the high rates of diabetes in the Bronx. The...
After breaking down barriers by making the Community Board application available in both English and Spanish, Borough President Gibson extended the Community Board application deadline to Wednesday...
After a $14.5 million allocation in the FY`23 budget for technology upgrades and capital upgrades for Bronx schools, Borough President Gibson announced her support for the Link NYC kiosks and the n...
Following the horrific 5-alarm fire at Twin Parks North West, Borough President Gibson collaborated with Council Member Oswald Feliz to create legislation to ensure the safety of tenants and hold l...The Borough President announced a partnership with the American Red Cross to “sound the alarm” on fire safety by coordinating smoke detector installations and fire safety workshops in partnership w...With public safety being a significant priority for many Bronx residents, the Borough President will soon create an Office of Public Safety with a focus on working collaboratively with the NYPD, cl...
The Office of the Bronx Borough President will continue its partnership with the My Brother`s Keeper initiative and will launch a My Sister’s Keeper counterpart focused on empowering and uplifting...
For the first time, Bronx residents will get to nominate an educator to be inducted into the Bronx Walk of Fame alongside previous inductees with the introduction of the People`s Choice Award.We revamped the ilovethebronx.comwebsite to facilitate access for Bronxites and those interested in visiting the Bronx to experience our cultural institutions, restaurants, small businesses, and ot...Jan 2, 2023 · On January 1st, 1898, after years of planning and razor-thin election results, the five boroughs we know today as The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island, were consolidated into one city to create the New York City we know today 125 years later.
Sep 2, 2016 · Bronx Trilogy: The Bronx Is Born — Before It Was A Borough 1638-1874. By Bowery Boys. September 2, 2016. 22 Comments. PODCAST A history of the land which would become the Bronx, from the first European settlement to its debut in 1874 as New York’s Annexed District. The story of the borough of the Bronx is so large, so spectacular, that we ...
Oct 12, 2015 · The rebuilding of the borough's housing began in the 1980s, pushed not just by community activists but by Ed Koch-the first in a string of New York mayors to devote substantial city funding, abetted by pension funds, state appropriations, federal housing dollars, and Section 8 subsidies, to the construction of affordable housing or the ...
