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From 1981 until 2011, the portion north of Fordham Road, adjacent to the New York Botanical Garden, was also named Dr. Theodore L. Kazimiroff Boulevard. [2] In 2011, the name of Kazimiroff, a Bronx historian and a founder of The Bronx County Historical Society, was changed to an honorary designation for this portion of Southern Boulevard after the New York City Department of Transportation ...
The Happy Land fire was an act of arson that killed 87 people on March 25, 1990, in the Bronx in New York City, United States.The 87 victims were trapped in the unlicensed Happy Land social club, located at 1959 Southern Boulevard in the West Farms section of the Bronx.
The South Bronx is an area of the New York City borough of the Bronx. The area comprises neighborhoods in the southern part of the Bronx, such as Concourse, Mott Haven, Melrose, and Port Morris. In the early 1900s, the South Bronx was originally known as the Manor of Morrisania, as it was the manor of Lewis Morris. As the Morris family ...
Southern Boulevard Railroad, Bronx, New York City, chartered in 1885 This page was last edited on 1 October 2019, at 23:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Southern Boulevard (formerly Theodore Kazimiroff Boulevard) – Theodore Kazimiroff, Bronx historian and a founder of The Bronx County Historical Society. Although part of Southern Boulevard was renamed after Kazimiroff in 1980, his name was removed from street signs in 2011 because he was not well known even among many Bronx locals.
January 1: The Bronx established as a borough in the City of Greater New York. [19] Louis F. Haffen becomes the first borough president. [20] Lincoln School for Nurses founded. [21] 1899 April 29: The Colored Home and Hospital dedicated its new home at the corner of 141st Street and Southern Boulevard. [22] Bronx Zoo opens. Calvary Hospital opens.
On December 10, 1930, a large crowd gathered at the Southern Boulevard branch in the Bronx seeking to withdraw their money, and started what is usually considered the bank run that started the Great Depression (though there had already been a wave of bank runs in the southeastern part of the U.S., at least as early as November 1930).
The Hunts Point branch, a two-story Carnegie library building opened in 1929, is located at 877 Southern Boulevard. [39] The Hunts Point library, designed by Carrère and Hastings in the Italian Renaissance style , was the last Carnegie library built for the New York Public Library system and is a New York City designated landmark .