Brooklyn College is Marjorie Morningstar territory, as much as the Bronx or Central Park West.

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

The Bronx is referred to in hip-hop slang as " The Boogie Down Bronx ", or just " The Boogie Down ".

The Bronx is the home of the New York Yankees, one of the leading baseball franchises.

One national landmark in the Bronx is the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, overlooking the Harlem River and designed by the renowned architect Stanford White.

In addition, the Harlem River is reemerging as " Scullers ' Row " due in large part to the efforts of the Bronx River Restoration Project, a joint public-private endeavor of the city's parks department.

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.

One of New York City's major non-commercial radio broadcasters is WFUV, an National Public Radio – affiliated 50, 000-watt station broadcasting from Fordham University's Rose Hill campus in the Bronx.

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 ".

A new feature-length documentary film by Edwin Pagan called Bronx Burning is in production in 2006, chronicling what led up to the numerous arson-for-insurance fraud fires of the 1970s in the borough.

The 1981 film Fort Apache, The Bronx is another film that used the Bronx's gritty image for its storyline.

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

Also from 1981 is the horror film Wolfen making use of the rubble of the Bronx as a home for werewolf type creatures.

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.

The film is memorable for its almost incessant use of the phrase, " Leave the Bronx!

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.

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.

Last night the Mayor visited Mr. Buckley at the Bronx leader's home for a discussion of the situation.

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 ).

Poe's final home is preserved as the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Bronx, New York.

He died of pancreatic cancer in his home at 5020 Goodridge Avenue, in the Riverdale section of the Bronx at the age of 64 and is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.

On November 8, 2008 former Yankees Scott Brosius, Paul O ' Neill, David Cone and Jeff Nelson, all members of the 1998 World Series championship team, joined 60 children from two Bronx based youth groups Youth Force 2020 and the ACE Mentor Program in ceremoniously digging up home plate, the pitcher's mound pitching plate ( rubber ) and the surrounding dirt of both areas and transporting them to comparable areas of new Yankee Stadium.

Curtis biggest fear was having to return home to the Bronx as a failure:

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

The newcomers wanted to escape from the crowded and economically depressed conditions in Manhattan and The Bronx and enjoy the fresh pine air, privacy and lower costs of rural Wyandanch yet be within an hours ride of the " City " on the LIRR. American-Irish John Douglas Sr. and John Douglas, Jr. built the first home in Wyandance Spring Park ( no spring, no park, no roads ) at the corner of what is now S. 29th Street and Jamaica Avenue in the early 1920s.

Toscanini died on January 16, 1957 at the age of 89 at his home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx in New York City.

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

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

The Bronx is home to many of the fathers of graffiti art such as Tats Cru.

The South Bronx is now home to the Bronx Museum of the Arts on the Grand Concourse.

South Bronx Campus, home of Village Prep School at 701 St Ann's Avenue

The South Bronx is also home to both for-profit and nonprofit organizations that offer a range of professional training and other educational programs.

Patti grew up in the Wakefield section of the Bronx, where her family's home is still standing.

* Jonathan Brewster Bingham ( 1914 – 1986 ), member of the House of Representatives for Riverdale and other sections of the Bronx from 1965 to 1983, for whom a segment of Independence Avenue north of 5000 Independence Avenue, his home with June Rossbach Bingham ( later June Bingham Birge ,) has been named.

In addition, the first home of the Missionaries of Charity in the United States was established in the South Bronx, New York.

The first Missionaries of Charity home in the United States was established in the South Bronx, New York ; by 1984 the order operated 19 establishments throughout the country.

On March 3, 1959, students and faculty occupied the new building for the first time, solving the problem of how to move the books from the old library to the new in typical Bronx Science manner: on Friday afternoon each student took home five library books from the old building, and on Monday returned them to the new one.

The Bronx has several local newspapers, including The Bronx News, Parkchester News, City News, The Riverdale Press, Riverdale Review, The Bronx Times Reporter, Inner City Press ( which now has more of a focus on national issues ) and Co-Op City Times.

* 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.