Bronx history

Photographs of Square Theatre

In the mid-1920s, a group of immigrant Jewish factory workers decided that they’d come this far for something better than the slums they inhabited. So pooling resources, they orchestrated the construction of four cooperatively owned and run apartment complexes in the Bronx, with practical goals for a better quality of life, and idealistic visions of...

Check out these 13 old Bronx pics of our borough you may or may not recognize! Some of these images are over 100 years old!

Dion on 187th St. and Arthur Avenue.

Full tour of the Bronx hoods with a map of Bronx gangs areas in Mott Haven, Highbridge, Soundview, Wakefield, Hunts Point, and more

Welcome to the Bronx

From NYC in the Sixties by Klaus Lehnartz (1978)

The BQE, this isn't: The Grand Concourse, which stretches four miles throughout the Bronx, is far from your average highway. It's one of New York’s most impressive, historic thoroughfares—as the name suggests, it's a grand, wide roadway separated into different parts by tree-lined medians and flanked by apartment buildings, businesses, and imposing civic structures on either side. It was built between 1894 and 1909, during the height of the City Beautiful Movement, a North American…

...and from before it was burning.

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