sometimes he would be up before dawn, clad as a garbage collector and hurling pails into areaways to exasperate us, and thereafter would hurry to the Bronx Zoo to grimace at the lions and press cigar butts against their paws.

The river is also straddled by the New York Botanical Gardens, its neighbor, the Bronx Zoo, and a little further south, on the west shore, Bronx River Art Center.

* The Bronx Zoo

" in June 2008 at the Bronx Zoo in New York.

The first okapi to arrive in North America was at the Bronx Zoo, via Antwerp, in 1937.

When he was two, his mother moved to the South Bronx near the Bronx Zoo, to live with her parents, Kate and James Gerardi, who originated from Corleone, Sicily.

Later he was given the run of the grounds at the Bronx Zoo in New York, then featured in an exhibit on evolution alongside an orangutan in 1906, but public protest ended that.

* Ota Benga, Congolese man put on display in the Bronx Zoo

" It was moments like these that gave the Yankees the nickname " The Bronx Zoo.

As a curiosity, the Rockefeller fountain that today stands in the Bronx Zoo in New York City was once in the main square ( Piazza Cavour ) by the lakeside.

They were first shipped to Germany and then to the Bronx Zoo in New York City where they also thrived.

The disease was first noticed on American chestnut trees in what was then the New York Zoological Park, now known as the Bronx Zoo, in 1904, by chief forester Hermann Merkel.

* Ota Benga ( c. 1884 – March 20, 1916 ), Congolese pygmy who was featured in an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo alongside an orangutan

The Bronx Zoo is located in the Bronx borough of New York City, within Bronx Park.

The Bronx Zoo is part of an integrated system of four zoos and one aquarium managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society ( WCS ), and is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums ( AZA ).

Fordham University owned the land which became the Bronx Zoo and New York Botanical Garden.

A side entrance to the Bronx ZooIn November 2006, the Zoo opened up brand-new eco-friendly restrooms outside the Bronx River Gate.

As of 2010, the Bronx Zoo is home to more than 4, 000 animals of 650 species, many of which are endangered or threatened.

Some of the exhibits at the Bronx Zoo, such as World of Birds and World of Reptiles, are arranged by taxonomy, while others, such as African Plains and Wild Asia, are arranged geographically.

Darin's career took off with a songwriting partnership, formed in 1955 with fellow Bronx High School of Science student Don Kirshner, and in 1956 his agent negotiated a contract with Decca Records.

A partnership was born in the form of Barré-Bowers Studios situated in the Fordham section of The Bronx.

The Bronx River Watershed Coalition, a partnership of local and state agencies, citizen groups and non-profit organizations, have developed watershed management plans to reduce stormwater pollution and improve water quality.

Madden, with his investigation centered on the fraud, said that tomorrow he would go to the Bronx bank through which Mrs. Meeker's checks to Johnston had cleared.

In an apparent effort to head off such a rival primary slate, Mr. Wagner talked by telephone yesterday with Representative Charles A. Buckley, the Bronx Democratic leader, and with Joseph T. Sharkey, the Brooklyn Democratic leader.

In talks with Mr. Buckley last week in Washington, the Mayor apparently received the Bronx leader's assent to dropping Controller Lawrence E. Gerosa, who lives in the Bronx, from this year's ticket.

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.

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.

Knights of the South Bronx, a true story of a teacher who worked with disadvantaged children, is another film also set in the Bronx released in 2005.

By contrast, Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities ( 1987 ) portrays a wealthy, white protagonist, Sherman McCoy, getting lost off the Major Deegan Expressway in the South Bronx and having an altercation with locals.

However, times change, and in 2007, the New York Times reported that " the Bronx neighborhoods near the site of Sherman's accident are now dotted with townhouses and apartments.

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.

Hunter College – so-named in 1914, originally Female Normal and High School and later the Normal College – had existed since 1870, and later expanded into the Bronx in the early 20th century with what became Herbert Lehman College, but CCNY and Hunter resisted merging.

The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.

William Jan Berry ( born in Los Angeles, California April 3, 1941 ; died March 26, 2004 ), was the son of aeronautical engineer William L. Berry ( born December 7, 1909 in The Bronx, NY ; died December 19, 2004 in Camarillo, California ), who had been project manager of the " Spruce Goose " and flew on its only flight with Howard Hughes, and Clara Lorentze Mustad Berry ( born September 2, 1919 in Bergen, Norway ; died July 9, 2009 ).

DJ Dr. Dust along with his DJ partner and cousin DJ Duran from the Bronx are considered to be the first Dominican DJs in Hip-Hop ( documented in The BX Factor magazine in 1996 ).

Giuliani attended Manhattan College in Riverdale, Bronx, where he majored in political science with a minor in philosophy.

* July 28 – Henry Clay steamboat disaster in Riverdale, Bronx, with several deaths including Stephen Allen.

New York City is famously coextensive with five counties or boroughs: the Bronx ( which is Bronx County ), Brooklyn ( Kings County ), Manhattan ( New York County ), Queens ( Queens County ), and Staten Island ( Richmond County ).

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.

In 1894, Brooklyn residents voted by a slight majority to join with Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, and Richmond ( later Staten Island ) to become the five boroughs of the modern New York City.

They often undertake contemplative ministries — that is, a monastery of nuns is often associated with prayer for some particular good or supporting the missions of another Order by prayer ( for instance, the Dominican nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery in the Bronx, N. Y. pray in support of the priests of the Archdiocese of New York ).