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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]]