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'''The Bronx''' is a borough of [[New York City]]. It is the northernmost of the city's five boroughs, lying north of [[Manhattan]] from which it is separated by the Harlem River.

'''The Bronx''' is a [[borough]] of [[New York City]]. It is the northernmost of the city's five boroughs, lying north of [[Manhattan]] from which it is separated by the Harlem River.

[[File:Bronx1.jpg|thumb|450px]]

[[File:Bronx1.jpg|thumb|450px]]

==History==

==History==

By 2000 The Bronx had a population of about l.2 million and its bridges, highways, and railroads were more heavily traveled than those of any other part of the United States.  

By 2000 The Bronx had a population of about l.2 million and its bridges, highways, and railroads were more heavily traveled than those of any other part of the United States.  

==Favorite sons and daughters==

==Favorite sons and daughters==

General [[Colin Powell]] grew up in a poor Jamaican immigrant family in the Bronx before joining ROTC and then the Army.  Supreme Court Justice [[Sonia Sotomayor]] grew up in a heavily Puerto Rican public housing unit; her mother worked double shifts as a nurse to send her to good Catholic schools. They spotted her talent and steered her  to Princeton. The nation;s first prominent Latina, she identified herself as a "kid from the Bronx."

General [[Colin Powell]] grew up in a poor Jamaican immigrant family in the Bronx before joining ROTC and then the Army.  Supreme Court Justice [[Sonia Sotomayor]] grew up in a heavily Puerto Rican public housing unit; her mother worked double shifts as a nurse to send her to good Catholic schools. They spotted her talent and steered her  to Princeton. The nation's first prominent Latina, she identified herself as a "kid from the Bronx."

==See also==

==See also==

* [[New York City]]

* [[New York City]]

* [http://www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/ Museum of Bronx History]

* [http://www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/ Museum of Bronx History]

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

* Jackson, Kenneth, ed. ''The Encyclopedia of New York City'' (1995), [http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-New-York-City/dp/0300055366/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240594479&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]

* Jackson, Kenneth, ed. ''The Encyclopedia of New York City'' (1995), [https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-New-York-City/dp/0300055366/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240594479&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]

* Samtur, Stephen M. and Martin A. Jackson. ''The Bronx: Lost, Found, and Remembered, 1935-1975'' (1999) [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=2982 online review], nostalgia

* Samtur, Stephen M. and Martin A. Jackson. ''The Bronx: Lost, Found, and Remembered, 1935-1975'' (1999) [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=2982 online review], nostalgia

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[[category:Urban History]]

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