Before the Bronx became one of New York City’s five boroughs, it was native land, a river valley and a 17th Century colonial ...

Born in Flames is a powerful retelling of the arson wave that overtook the South Bronx in the 1970s. Bench Ansfield offers a ...

The Bronx’s landlords were mostly small-time capitalists, often Jewish and sometimes Italian American, with roots in the borough’s pre–World War II working class. Many were also absentee ...

The Grand Concourse is a major thoroughfare in the Bronx that spans more than four miles in the western part of the borough. It was conceived in 1890 by Louis Aloys Risse, a French immigrant and chief ...

Sometimes people say exactly the right thing. Other times, they don’t, and we just pretend that they did. When eighteenth-century Parisians clamored for bread, did Marie Antoinette respond, “Let them ...

You can now take guided tours of the second oldest house standing in The Bronx. The Valentine-Varian House stood through the Colonial era and the Revolutionary War. News 12 sat down with the Bronx ...

NJ man gets 25 to life in prison for brutal killing of his 2 aunts in Spring Valley ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. In 1952, more than 1,500 families in the West Bronx received ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough" (‎Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New Yorker writer ...