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Building in the South Bronx built in 1909 and located on Simpson Street. The South Bronx was originally called the Manor of Morrisania, and later Morrisania.It was the private domain of the powerful and aristocratic Morris family, which includes Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Gouverneur Morris, the penman of the United States Constitution.
Morrisania (/ ˌ m ɒr ɪ ˈ s eɪ n i ə / MORR-i-SAY-nee-ə) is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern Bronx, New York City, New York. Its boundaries are the Cross-Bronx Expressway to the north, Crotona-Prospect Avenue to the east, East 163rd Street to the south, and Webster Avenue to the west. Third Avenue is the primary thoroughfare ...
Morris High School Historic District is a national historic district centered on a high school located at Morrisania, The Bronx, New York, New York. The district includes 51 contributing buildings. It includes the Morris High School, two streets of brick rowhouses, and Trinity Episcopal Church of Morrisania. The high school and rowhouses were ...
Morris High School was a high school in the Melrose neighborhood of the South Bronx in New York City. [1] The direct predecessor of Morris was built in 1897 and established as the Mixed High School, situated in a small brick building on 157th Street and 3rd Avenue, about six blocks south of where the new building would be built. The only ...
The Music With A Message Band is a 25-member performance group, aged 6–21, that write songs about social issues and perform throughout New York City. [12] The band has performed at Good Morning America, [13] Carnegie Hall, [14] the Women in the World Summit at Lincoln Center, [15] the Apollo Theater, [16] the New School, [17] [18] and the City Parks Foundation. [19]
Between 2011 and 2021, the share of South Bronx households below the federal poverty line declined from about 39.7% to 36.3%, according to a New York State Comptroller report on the South Bronx ...
The complex includes the stone parish house added in 1916, late-19th century Sunday School and gymnasium building, and a graveyard that includes the Morris family crypt. Among those whose remains are in the graveyard or crypt are Gouverneur Morris , the "Penman of the Constitution" (1752–1816), Ann Cary Randolph Morris (1774-1837), Lewis ...
South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City. Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-0-8232-2199-8. Jeffrey A. Kroessler (2002), New York Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis, New York University Press, ISBN 0-8147-4751-5; Bill Twomey (2002). South Bronx. Images of America. Arcadia. ISBN 9780738510200.