Btfsplk ( his name is " pronounced " by simply blowing a " raspberry " or Bronx cheer ) always has an iconic dark cloud over his head.

The New York Times has identified 1520 Sedgwick Avenue " an otherwise unremarkable high-rise just north of the Cross Bronx Expressway and hard along the Major Deegan Expressway " as a starting point, where DJ Kool Herc presided over parties in the community room.

Hush Hip Hop Tours has established a sightseeing tour of the Bronx showcasing the locations that helped shape hip hop culture and has the pioneers of hip hop as tour guides.

The Bronx has also become home to a peculiar poetic tribute, in the form of the Heinrich Heine Memorial, better known as the Lorelei Fountain from one of Heine's best-known works ( 1838 ).

The City of New York has an official television station run by the NYC Media Group and broadcasting from Bronx Community College, and Cablevision operates News 12 The Bronx, both of which feature programming based in the Bronx.

The Bronx has been featured significantly in fiction literature.

In poetry, the Bronx has been immortalized by one of the world's shortest couplets:

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.

In recent years, there has been a large influx of people that have relocated from New York City, mainly from the Borough of The Bronx.

It has campuses and facilities in Manhattan ( Washington Heights, Murray Hill, Greenwich Village ), the Bronx, Queens, and Israel.

* Susan Misner ( born 1971 ), actress who has appeared on films and television, including roles in One Life to Live, The Bronx Is Burning, Rescue Me and Chicago.

A gas station in the wide median between Bronx exits 7 and 8, north of the pedestrian overpass to the Botanical Garden, was closed due to fire in the early 1980s and has since been razed and the median relandscaped.

This middle section has county mileposts in the middle, and reference markers with state mileposts ( counting from the southern terminus in the Bronx, not the city line ) alongside.

Since 1966 Sacks has served as a neurological consultant to various New York City nursing homes that are run by the Little Sisters of the Poor, and from 1966 to 1991, he was a consulting neurologist at Bronx Psychiatric Center.

Simon was raised in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City and has two older sisters, Joanna ( b. 1940 ) and Lucy ( b. 1943 ), and a younger brother, Peter ( b. 1947 ).

Since the late 1970s the South Bronx has been home to a renewed grassroots art scene.

The Bronx is home to several Off-Off-Broadway theaters, many staging new works by immigrant playwrights from Latin America and Africa.

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.

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

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.

Reverend Tieck authored several books on the Bronx, one of which is called Riverdale, Kingsbridge, Spuyten Duyvil New York City, A Historical Epitome of the Northwest Bronx, published in 1968.

When Time reviewed the latter, it noted several of Seldes ' works and said he " stuck out his tongue at Benito Mussolini ... thumbed his nose at U. S. journalism ... and uttered some hoarse Bronx cheers at the Roman Catholic Church.

I-278 follows several freeways, including the Union Freeway in Union County, New Jersey, the Staten Island Expressway ( SIE ) across Staten Island, the Gowanus Expressway in southern Brooklyn, the Brooklyn – Queens Expressway ( BQE ) across northern Brooklyn and Queens, a small part of the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, and a part of the Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx.

* Collis Place in Bronx County, New York, which is located several blocks from Huntington's riverside mansion.

There were several children born to this union, and while two of the older sons moved to Galveston, TX, Ella moved to the Bronx, NY with her remaining children, and her sister Fanny.

Foxworth and his men on a New York City warehouse and a printing plant in the South Bronx, 8 million bibles were reported seized, and small time businessmen Jacob and David Brotman were arrested along with several associates.

Owners of the several dozen houses on the strip have a Pelham Manor zip code and phone numbers and their children attend Pelham public schools, but as Bronx residents pay much lower property taxes than their Westchester County neighbors.

There are several non profits operating in this section of the South Bronx, most notably: the Hunts Point Economic Development Corporation ( HPEDC ), Per Scholas, Inc., Sustainable South Bronx ( SSBx ), THE POINT Community Development Corporation, Rocking the Boat, City Year, Legal Aid Society, Bronx Neighborhood Office, Mothers on the Move, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, Children's Bible Fellowship sponsored Revolution Church, Iridescent and South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation ( SoBRO ).

In the last half-decade, Dean has appeared in a number of independent films ( most notably, The War Bride ) and several well-received television miniseries ( such as The Bronx Is Burning ).

It consists of stained glass murals on the platform windscreens depicting images related to the Bronx Zoo, which is several blocks to the north.

Merhi has received several grants and awards including the New York Foundation for the Arts in Digital / Electronic Arts, as well as numerous commissions and residencies from institutions such as the Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, among others.

In 1988 Leder went on to direct episodes of Crime Story, The Bronx Zoo, Midnight Caller, before getting hired to direct several episodes of China Beach ( 1988-91 ) for which she was nominated for four Emmys.

Born in Brooklyn, she was raised in Scarsdale, New York for several years until the Wall Street crash which heralded the Great Depression, and her family moved to the Bronx.

The Bronx River serves as the town line between several Westchester communities, dividing the City of Yonkers from the Town of Eastchester, with its villages of Tuckahoe and Bronxville.

The local Public-access television station BronxNet provides Government-access television ( GATV ) public affairs programming in addition to programming produced by Bronx residents.

In the Bronx borough of New York City, an entire Anglo-Puerto Rican family is marked by the local mob, an unforgiving and brutal crew of mobsters and wise guys.

The 1 service operates local at all times between Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street in Riverdale, Bronx and South Ferry in Lower Manhattan.

At all times except middays and rush hours in the peak direction, the 6 local operates between Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx and Brooklyn Bridge – City Hall in Civic Center, Manhattan.

During middays and rush hours in the peak direction, the 6 local operates to / from Parkchester in the Bronx.

Other times, the made local stops in the Bronx.

's gained even more credibility and respect from local fans after competing in an emcee lyrical battle against the well known Cold Crush Brothers from the Bronx.

Urban decay in the US: the South Bronx, New York City, was exemplar of the federal and local government ’ s abandonment of the cities in the 1970s and 1980s ; the Spanish sign reads “ FALSAS PROMESAS ”, the English sign reads “ BROKEN PROMISES ”.

On July 10, 1983, trains began running between Wakefield – 241st Street and Flatbush Avenue at all times, making local stops in Bronx and Brooklyn and express stops in Manhattan.

Rush hour and midday service operates between Dyre Avenue in Eastchester, Bronx and Flatbush Avenue – Brooklyn College in Midwood, Brooklyn, operating local in the Bronx, express in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

The village of New York has three shops, a general store, a school, the Shiremoor Farm, now converted to a very large pub / restaurant, a post office, a petrol station, a pub / restaurant ( the Wheatsheaf ), a working men's club, two take-away food shops ( Chinese and local take-away food shop " The Bronx ") and some horse stables.

The News also maintains local bureaus in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, at City Hall, within One Police Plaza, and at the various state and federal courthouses in the city.

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.

St. Lawrence Avenue is a local station on the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of St. Lawrence Avenue and Westchester Avenue in the Bronx.

138th Street – Grand Concourse is a local station on the IRT Jerome Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the T intersection of East 138th Street and the Grand Concourse in the Bronx neighborhood of Mott Haven.

Finally, despite common references to " a Bronx accent ", or " a Brooklyn accent ", no published study has found any feature that varies internally beyond local names.

Serrano has paid attention to local environmental issues in New York, with a particular focus on constructing greenways, acquiring parklands, and cleaning up the Bronx River, which runs through his district.

The Manhattan Bridge connection continues to be used by the B and D services, both of which operate into the Bronx along the IND Concourse Line, one local and the other express north of 59th Street – Columbus Circle in Manhattan, and both of which head south towards Coney Island.

At the time, a number of prominent local universities had made the move to upper Manhattan and the Bronx in order to build bigger campuses, including Columbia University, and the City College of New York.

He attended local public schools in the Bronx, hated the experience, and was bored in class.

* 6 regular service operates local at all times ; daytime directional diamond service runs express in the Bronx ( with local service in the same direction cut back to Parkchester ).