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Address Name Constructed Landmark Date Reference Registry ID Bronx 1005 Jerome Avenue Park Plaza Apartments † 1929–1931 1981 [67]: 329 NYCL #1077: Bronx 1619 Boston Road Herman Ridder Junior High School: 1929–1931 1990 [67]: 326–327 NYCL #1628: Bronx 105–149 West 168th Street Noonan Plaza Apartments: 1931 2010 [68] NYCL #2400: Bronx
Area code Year Current region 212: 1947 New York City: Manhattan only; component of 212/332/646 and 917 overlays : 315: 1947 Syracuse, Utica, Watertown, and north central New York; component of 315/680 overlay
The Bronx (/ b r ɒ ŋ k s / BRONKS; is the northernmost borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.It shares a land border with Westchester County to its north; to its south and west, the New York City borough of Manhattan is across the Harlem River; and to its south and east is the borough of Queens, across the East River.
Marble Hill, a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan, is physically located on the U.S. mainland, adjacent to the Bronx. Despite being legally a part of the borough of Manhattan, [19] per the Greater New York Charter of 1897, the neighborhood of Marble Hill is excluded from the Manhattan numbering plan areas 212, 646, and 332, instead using the 718, 347, and 929 area codes. [19]
The Bronx Borough President's office used to be in its own Bronx Borough Hall but has been in the Bronx County Courthouse for decades. Since the abolition of the Board of Estimate in 1990 (due to a 1989 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court [ 38 ] ), the borough presidents have minimal executive powers, and there is no legislative function within a ...
The Amalgamated Housing Cooperative is a limited-equity cooperative in New York City.Organized by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (ACW), a Manhattan-based socialist labor union, the co-op's original cluster of Tudor-style buildings was erected at the southern edge of Van Cortlandt Park in 1927.
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 New-York Directory, published in 1786, was the first extant directory for New York City and the third published in the United States.It listed 846 names. A year earlier, the first two in the country were published in Philadelphia – the first, compiled by Francis White, was initially printed October 27, 1785, [1] [2] [3] and the second, compiled by John Macpherson (1726–1792), was ...