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.

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.

The land on which the city is built was once part of a 24, 000 acre ( 97 km² ) land grant called Colen Donck that ran from the current Manhattan / Bronx border at Marble Hill northwards for 12 miles ( 19 km ), and from the Hudson River eastwards to the Bronx River.

The later-named Kingsbridge carried Boston Post Road, connecting southern Westchester County ( which became The Bronx ) with Marble Hill, once part of Manhattan island, but still today part of Manhattan borough.

Wakefield, like the rest of the Bronx, was once woods and farmland.

The King's Bridge was part of Boston Post Road, connecting southern Westchester County ( which became The Bronx ) with Marble Hill, once part of the Manhattan island, but still today part of the Manhattan borough.

These islands were once part of the town of Pelham, but are now mostly part of the Bronx, except for Davids ' and Goose Islands which are part of New Rochelle, and Travers Island which straddles the border of New Rochelle and Pelham Manor, New York.

Third Avenue was also once home to the Third Avenue Elevated line until 1955 in Manhattan, and 1973 in the Bronx.

Golos settled once more in New York City, this time in the borough of the Bronx, working as the business manager of Novyi Mir ( New World ), the Communist Party's Russian-language newspaper, based in New York City.

The Parkway once fed into the accident-prone Hawthorne Circle, a former roundabout at the intersection of the Taconic Parkway extension from the Bronx River Parkway, Taconic State, and Saw Mill River parkways.

The circle once connected three busy highways, the Bronx River Parkway, the Taconic State Parkway, and the Saw Mill River Parkway.

:... A teacher at a Bronx high school once appeared among the auditors.

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.

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.

Numerous fires had previously broken out in the Bronx prior to this fire.

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.

In 1961, the New York State Legislature established the City University of New York, uniting what had become seven municipal colleges at the time: The City College of New York, Hunter College, Brooklyn College, Queens College, Staten Island Community College, Bronx Community College and Queensborough Community College.

His Democratic opponent was Robert L. Moran, an alderman from the Bronx who had succeeded to the Board presidency in 1918 when Alfred E. Smith, who had been elected Board President in 1917, became Governor.

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 ).

* The beginning lines of Rodgers and Hart's 1939 song " Give it Back to the Indians " recount the sale of Manhattan: Old Peter Minuit had nothing to lose when he bought the isle of Manhattan / For twenty-six dollars and a bottle of booze and they threw in the Bronx and Staten / Pete thought that he had the best of the bargin but the poor red man just grinned / And he grunted " ugh!

In January 1914, those parts of the then New York County which had been annexed from Westchester County were constituted as Bronx County.

The total operation had been relocated to a newly constructed campus in the South Bronx.

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.

This was the first time the many members of the Bronx hip-hop scene had appeared in a Downtown NYC art context.

Thunders was eventually recruited by Kane and Rick Rivets, who had been playing together in the Bronx.

Clifford Odets had been a close friend of Garfield from the early days in the Bronx.

His mother was born in The Bronx, New York, to Jewish parents whose families had emigrated from Russia and Hungary.

Released in the US in 1995, Rumble in the Bronx had a successful theater run, and brought Chan into the American mainstream.

Lee Harvey Oswald, at that time a 14-year old disturbed boy living in the Bronx, received one of thse pamphlets, and six years later would tell a reporter in Moscow ( after he had defected to the USSR ) that this marked the beginning of this interest in " socialist literature ," which he then proceeded to seek out and read, soon becoming a self-described lifelong " Marxist.

Even though it was the story of a poor Jewish family in the Bronx, New York, it had identification for a wide segment of listeners ".

After stopping in The Bronx to change clothes and pick up a set of keys to a Montreal bank safe deposit box containing US $ 20, 000, Abagnale caught a train to Montreal's Dorval airport to purchase a ticket to São Paulo, Brazil, a country with which the U. S. had no extradition treaty.

The Bronx Museum of the Arts, founded in 1971, exhibits 20th century and contemporary art through its central museum space and of galleries.

Many of its exhibitions are on themes of special interest to the Bronx.

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.

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

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.

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.

* The IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line runs under and over Broadway from Times Square to 168th Street ( trains ), and from 218th Street to its terminal in the Bronx at Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street ( train ).

* May 12 – New York's Third Avenue Elevated runs its last train between Chathem Square in Manhattan and East 149th Street in the Bronx, thus ending elevated train service in Manhattan.

* April 18 – Yankee Stadium opens its doors in the Bronx, NY

In 1907 the Bronx River Commission was established to acquire the necessary lands to eliminate nuisance conditions along the river's banks and improve its water quality through a joint undertaking between New York City and Westchester County.

The success of the Bronx River Parkway Reservation encouraged the County government to develop its outstanding parks system, preserving great tracts of open space.

The zoo ( originally called the Bronx Zoological Park and the Bronx Zoological Gardens ) opened its doors to the public on November 8, 1899, featuring 843 animals in 22 exhibits.

The Bronx Zoo made the news in August 2006 when it agreed to enter a rare snow leopard cub, Leo, into its breeding program.

On March 26, 2011, the Bronx Zoo announced that the reptile house was closed after a venomous adolescent Egyptian cobra was discovered missing from its off-exhibit enclosure on March 25.