Employees of the New York City Transit Authority assigned to the New York City Subway and in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx are members of the Transport Workers Union of America Local 100, with Queens and Staten Island bus personnel represented by various Amalgamated Transit Union locals.

The daytime service pattern is between Woodlawn in the Bronx and Utica Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn via Jerome Avenue Local in the Bronx, Lexington Avenue Express in Manhattan, and Eastern Parkway Express in Brooklyn.

* The 6 ( Lexington Avenue Local ): operates between Pelham Bay Park, the Bronx and Brooklyn Bridge – City Hall, Manhattan at all times.

During rush hours, the B is extended to and from Bedford Park Boulevard in the Bronx via Concourse Local.

While the origins of hip-hop are believed to be from the Bronx, rival hip-hop group Juice Crew's lyrics were misunderstood to contain a claim in the song " The Bridge " that hip hop was directly a result of artists originating from Queensbridge.

While Criminal Minded contained vivid descriptions of South Bronx street life, BDP changed after Scott's death.

While the state or even the general location of the town is unspecified, John L. Goldwater attended Horace Mann School in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York City.

While serving as secretary-general, U Thant lived in Riverdale, Bronx, on a estate near 232nd Street, between Palisade and Douglas Avenues.

While remaining a county in relation to the state, each county also became a Borough within the City, with the Bronx reunited to form a fifth borough that shared New York County with Manhattan.

" While living together in a communal house in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Cazale and Pacino were cast in a play by Israel Horovitz, The Indian Wants the Bronx, for which they both won Obie Awards in 1967-1968 ..

While 10469 is the primary ZIP code of Baychester, it also covers the adjacent neighborhood of Pelham Gardens, Bronx.

While officially a memorial to servicemen from The Bronx, it is also a favorite location for wedding photography.

While the line has traditionally served to bring commuters from Westchester County to jobs in the city, in recent years it has begun to see more " reverse commuting ", as Bronx residents use it to reach jobs in Southern Westchester where many stations are within walking distance of city centers.

While the New Haven line's one stop in the Bronx is at Fordham, from 1848 until the 1920s that stop was instead at Woodlawn.

While working in construction, Smallhorne helped organize the Irish Bronx Theater.

Co-op City residents presented Bronx state Supreme Court Justice John Byrne with petitions and hundreds of letters asking for jail time, but — in a plea deal — Rosen was ordered to pay $ 38, 575 and Aulenbach $ 32, 363 in restitution to The Gloria Wise Club.

On the appointed day, hundreds of men from both sides met at an abandoned house in the Bronx.

Beginning with the advent of beat match DJ ' ing, in which Bronx DJs ( Disc Jockeys ) including Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa and DJ Kool Herc extended the breaks of funk records, a major new musical genre emerged that sought to isolate the percussion breaks of hit funk, disco and soul songs.

Ferris's extensive but selective 1995 list mentions only four songs referring specifically to The Bronx:

Boogie Down and KRS retorted angrily with songs like The Bridge is Over and South Bronx, which started one of the first notable hip hop wars as MC Shan, Marley Marl, Roxanne Shanté and Blaq Poet all released songs featuring verses personally attacking KRS and Scott La Rock.

Hit songs such as " Ain't That a Kick in the Head ", " Sway "," You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You ", " That's Amore ", and Martin's signature song " Everybody Loves Somebody " ( and many more ) have been used in films ( such as the Oscar-winning Logorama, A Bronx Tale, Casino, Goodfellas, Payback, Vegas Vacation and Return to Me ), television series ( such as American Dad !, Friends, and House MD ), video games ( such as The Godfather: The Game, The Godfather II, Fallout: New Vegas, and Mafia II ), and even fashion shows ( such as the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2008 ).

Sherman also parodied Gilbert and Sullivan's " Titwillow " from The Mikado, in the song " The Bronx Bird-Watcher " ( on My Son, the Celebrity ), as well as several other Gilbert and Sullivan songs.

Several Jamaican DJs such as DJ Kool Herc exported much of the hip hop dance culture from Jamaica to the Bronx in the early 1970s, including the common Jamaican practice of DJs rapping over instrumental dub remixes of hit songs ( See King Stitt, U Roy, Dennis Alcapone, Dillinger ), ultimately leading to the advent of rap culture in the United States.

Tony Sunshine ( born April 23, 1977 as Antonio Cruz in the Bronx, New York ) is an American R & B singer of Puerto Rican descent, famous for singing on a large amount of Terror Squad's songs.

Their lyrics would go on to reflect the experiences of the Irish in the area, in such songs as " Funky Ceílí ," " Her Dear Donegal ," and " Rockin ' the Bronx.

Hip hop first emerged in the Bronx in the early 1970s at neighborhood block parties when DJs, like DJ Kool Herc, began isolating percussion breaks in funk and R & B songs and rapping while the audience danced.

According to the 1910 Census, her mother, Vallie, remarried in 1900 to Leon Faber, and they resided in the Bronx, New York, along with Alice and her brother, Frank, where she was employed as a " photographer's model " and appeared in illustrated songs.

Nyro was the main selector of material for the album, and chose songs she was influenced by growing up in the Bronx of the 1950s and ' 60s.

At the same time, other rappers joined in making songs dissing Queensbridge, such as Cool C's " Juice Crew Dis " which mocked " Juice Crew Law " and attacks both Shan and Shanté, and MitchSki's " Brooklyn Blew Up the Bridge, South Bronx Helped us out ", which made fun of Shan's on-stage appearances.

The editor and co-publisher of The Riverdale Press, Bernard Stein, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for his editorials about Bronx and New York City issues in 1998.

This theme lends itself to the title of The Bronx Is Burning, an eight-part ESPN TV mini-series ( 2007 ) about the New York Yankees ' drive to winning baseball's 1977 World Series.

All of the characters in Herman Wouk's City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder ( 1948 ) live in the Bronx, and about half of the action is set there.

His family moved to the Bronx when he was about seven.

According to the New York Times: Occupying a hilly pocket between the Sprain Brook Parkway to the west and the Bronx River Parkway to the east, Edgemont's Tudor and classic colonials ( a few dating back to the 18th century ) are about 22 miles from Midtown Manhattan, making it an appealing choice for commuters.

Van Sant fared somewhat better with 2000's Finding Forrester, a drama about a high-school student from the Bronx ( Rob Brown ) who becomes unlikely friends with a crusty, reclusive author ( Sean Connery ).

His son Robert built Stonehurst at the Bronx about 1860.

Prosecutors say Kerik received about $ 255, 000 in renovations to his Riverdale, Bronx, apartment from a company seeking to do business with the city of New York and concealed the income from the Internal Revenue Service.

Bronx Science started with about 150 ninth year students and 250 tenth year students, the remaining facilities of the building being used by DeWitt Clinton.

The Bronx High School of Science has a student body of about 3, 000 students.

Out of the approximately 30, 000 students taking the entrance examination for the September 2011 admission round, ( with 19, 587 students listing Bronx Science as a choice on their application ), about 1, 044 offers were made, making for an acceptance rate of 5. 3 %.

Reaching Manhattan after about, the race proceeds north on First Avenue, then crosses briefly into The Bronx via the Willis Avenue Bridge for a mile before returning to Manhattan via the Madison Avenue Bridge.

On September 17, 2012, News12 ( Bronx ) reported a story about the differences in spelling ( video: Throgs Neck or Throggs Neck?

: This article is about the body of water in the Bronx.

In late 1932, Odets began writing a play about a middle-class Jewish family in the Bronx, initially called I Got the Blues.

A new show called Mama's Boys of the Bronx is premiering on TLC Monday April 9, 2012 about grown men living on and around Arthur Avenue in the Bronx with their mothers.

In 1995, however, his then-communications director Greg Howard, told the Bronx Beat newspaper, which wrote about the feud, " We don't consider Mr. Hagedorn a legitimate journalist.

From the New York City boroughs outside Manhattan ( Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx ), the limiting magnitude might be 3. 0, suggesting that at best, only about 50 stars might be seen at any one time.

Alex Furlong ( Emilio Estevez ) is a professional race-car driver who is just about to die in a spectacular 1991 crash, right in front of his fiancée Julie Redlund ( Rene Russo ) and his agent Brad ( David Johansen ), when a time machine snatches him from the cockpit and into the 21st century Bronx, a wasteland.

The aqueduct continues further south through the Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers, and then continues through The Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn, eventually ending in Staten Island, providing New York City with about 50 % of their drinking water.