In the 1979 film The Warriors, the eponymous gang go to a meeting in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, and have to fight their way out of the borough and get back to Coney Island in Brooklyn.

Last Bronx, a 1996 Sega game played on the bad reputation of the Bronx to lend its name to an alternate version of post-Japanese bubble Tokyo, where crime and gang warfare is rampant.

The documentary shows many sides of the mainly Puerto Rican community of the South Bronx, including reformed gang members, current gang members, the police, and the community leaders who try to reach out to them.

* September 24, 1959: New York City, New York Twenty-seven men and boys and an arsenal were seized in the Bronx as the police headed off a gang war resulting from the fatal shooting of a teenager Monday at Morris High School.

The bar was the scene of a violent altercation one night, involving a rowdy biker gang intent on ransacking the establishment, which may have served as inspiration for a similar scene in the 1993 film A Bronx Tale.

Drug trafficking, gang activity, and prostitution are all still common throughout the South Bronx.

* Lillo Brancato, Jr. as Private Donnie Benitez ( Horatio ), a soldier from The Bronx, who was originally part of a street gang.

The first gang was a break-away faction from the Morello crime family based in the Bronx and led by Gaetano Reina, who had formerly been aligned with boss Ciro " The Artichoke King " Terranova.

The Ghetto Brothers were a gang ( or club ) and music group founded in New York City's South Bronx in the late 1960s.

) is best known for brokering the gang truce in the Bronx and Harlem ( New York City ) in 1971.

At that time, he was President of the Ghetto Brothers, a mainly ethnically Puerto Rican South Bronx gang, and lead guitarist of a musical group also known as the Ghetto Brothers.

Drake's coffee cake is mentioned in the movie A Bronx Tale, where a gang member's nickname is coffee cake because of his face's resemblance to the snack.

The cast includes a drug dealer and counterfeit document manufacturer from Westchester County ( Mikie C ), a gang member from Jersey City ( Jerome Watts ), an arsonist and bomb builder from Bridgeport ( Jon Shipiro ), the son of a Mafia informant ( Carlo Gallo ), and a 17-year-old chop shop parts dealer and car thief from the Bronx ( Jesus Rodriguez ).

Other films include Flyin ' Cut Sleeves, a documentary about Bronx street gang leaders in the 1970s ; Visit Palestine: Ten Days on the West Bank, based on his visit to the occupied territories in 2000 ; and the more recent documentary about the South Bronx, From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale.

** The Tanglewood Boys was a recruitment gang that operated in Westchester County, The Bronx and Manhattan.

With all gang members from the Lacey kidnapping released on bail, on 18 August 1994, Cahill left the house at which he had been staying at Swan Grove and began driving to a local video store to return a borrowed copy of A Bronx Tale.

Hollywood films such as From This Day Forward ( 1946 ), set in Highbridge, occasionally delved into Bronx life.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

The Bronx's gritty urban life had worked its way into the movies even earlier, with depictions of the " Bronx cheer ", a loud flatulent-like sound of disapproval, allegedly first made by New York Yankees fans.

They are set in the heart of the Bronx, showing apartment life and the then-landmark Krums ice cream parlor.

It showed his everyday life as a doctor working in a small clinic in the Bronx.

The group pioneered the fusion of dancehall reggae and hip hop music and their debut LP Criminal Minded contained frank descriptions of life in the South Bronx of the late 1980s thus setting the stage for what would eventually become gangsta rap.

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

Poe spent the last few years of his life in this small cottage in the Fordham, Bronx | Bronx, New York. One evening in January 1842, Virginia showed the first signs of consumption, now known as tuberculosis, while singing and playing the piano.

Charges of truancy, in the Bronx ( NYC ), led to psychiatric assessment at a juvenile reformatory, the psychiatrist, Dr. Renatus Hartogs, describing Oswald's " vivid fantasy life, turning around the topics of omnipotence and power, through which he tries to compensate for his present shortcomings and frustrations.

Chayefsky's story of a decent, hard-working Bronx butcher, pining for the company of a woman in his life but despairing of ever finding true love in a relationship, was produced by Fred Coe with associate producer Gordon Duff.

Although born in Albany, Fort lived most of his life in the Bronx, one of New York City's five boroughs.

Gordon Heights had its beginnings in the early 1920s, when developer Louis Fife went to Black neighborhoods in New York City ( Harlem, Brooklyn, and the Bronx ) with the offer of land and a better life on Long Island.

It was a domestic comedy featuring the home life of a Jewish family, supposedly located at 1038 East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx.

In a way this mirrored the real life journey of many Jewish families from the Bronx to the suburbs and other parts of New York during this period.

* ( Pictorial work on historical social life and customs in the South Bronx )

Marty is a poignant story of a decent, hard-working Bronx butcher, pining for the company of a woman in his life but despairing of ever finding true love in a relationship.

His life as a self-regarded " Master of The Universe " on Wall Street is destroyed when he and his mistress, Maria Ruskin, accidentally enter the Bronx at night while they are driving to Manhattan from Kennedy Airport.

Frank Serpico was one real life example, while a cultural example is Paul Newman's character in Fort Apache, The Bronx, who informed on a fellow officer after witnessing him throw an unarmed man off a rooftop during a riot.

In addition, SSBx runs the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training ( BEST ) program, which takes qualifying students through 10 weeks of intensive training covering everything from tree pruning and climbing to OSHA brownfield remediation to green roof installation and maintenance to estuary restoration to job / life skills.

The Bronx's evolution from a hot bed of Latin jazz to an incubator of hip hop was the subject of an award-winning documentary, produced by City Lore and broadcast on PBS in 2006, " From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale ".

Co-op City was the first area in the Bronx, and the first in New York beyond Manhattan, to have its own cable television provider.

The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.

As the fire was captured on live television, announcer Howard Cosell stated, " There it is, ladies and gentlemen: the Bronx is burning ".

The movie's title is from the nickname for the 41st Police Precinct in the South Bronx which was nicknamed " Fort Apache ".

The Bronx was the setting for the 1983 film Fuga dal Bronx, also known as Bronx Warriors 2 and Escape 2000, an Italian B-movie best known for its appearance on the television series Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

Rumble in the Bronx was a 1995 Jackie Chan kung-fu film, another which popularised the Bronx to international audiences.

Penny Marshall's 1990 film Awakenings, which was nominated for several Oscars, is based on neurologist Oliver Sacks ' 1973 account of his psychiatric patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx who were paralyzed by a form of encephalitis but briefly responded to the drug L-dopa.

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.

Original member Lee Smith, who has co-producer credit on the original 12 ” " South Bronx " single, was the last to be inexplicably jettisoned by KRS-One and the future new label after Scott ’ s death.

Excess revenue from the area was to be contributed to other housing efforts, typically low-income projects in the Bronx and Harlem.