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Dec 30, 2008 · How the Bronx Got Its Name. By Diogomaye Ndiaye. December 30, 2008. People often wonder why the Bronx, alone of all New York’s boroughs, has “the” as part of its name. It’s because the borough is named after the Bronx River and the river was named for a man born in far-off Sweden. In 1639 Jonas Bronck arrived in the Dutch settlement of ...
Nov 1, 2021 · In 1639, a Swedish sea captain named Jonas Bronck sailed from the Netherlands with his wife, some domestic servants, and a number of other emigrants to New Amsterdam—still 25 years away from...
Aug 28, 1987 · Thus, when Jonas impressed his own family nomenclature on the region he settled, the Aquahung River became Bronk’s River — the Bronx, as it remains today, correctly expressed in Dutch.” As far as Cecil can tell, the name “the Bronx” didn’t signify the entire area now known as the Bronx until late in the 19th century.
Jun 7, 2015 · It all started in 1639 when a Scandinavian, Jonas Bronck, settled in a Dutch colonial province in New Netherland. "When he dies in 1643 at the age of 43, the only thing that...
Feb 24, 2014 · 'When the Morris family movied from the Island of Barbados they started referring to that piece of the Bronx, what is now called the Bronx, as Bronck's land." And Hernandez says the name...
The Bronx is the only New York City borough not primarily located on an island. The Bronx has a land area of 42 square miles (109 km 2) and a population of 1,472,654 in the 2020 census. [1] If each borough were ranked as a city, the Bronx would rank as the ninth-most-populous in the U.S.
Jonas Bronck, who arrived at New Amsterdam in 1639, and whose name is perpetuated in Bronx Borough, Bronx Park, Bronxville — in New York — was a Scandinavian, in all probability a Dane and originally, as it seems, from Thorshavn, Faroe Islands, where his father was a pastor in the Lutheran Church.
