Neighborhoods
The Neighborhoods section features clickable links to historical profiles of thirty-six areas within the Bronx
and is illustrated with archival photographs from the Lehman College Library, Special
Collections.
Bathgate Baychester Bedford Park Belmont Bronxdale Bronx Park Bronx River City Island Claremont Clason Point Crotona Park East Fordham |
Grand Concourse Highbridge Hunts Point Kingsbridge Longwood / Foxhurst Morrisania Mosholu / Norwood Mott Haven Mount Eden Parkchester Pelham Bay Park / Pelham Parkway Port Morris |
Riker's Island Riverdale Sound View / Bruckner Spuyten Duyvil Throggs Neck Tremont Union Port University Heights Westchester Heights Williamsbridge Woodlawn |
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Credits Cook, Harry T., The Borough of the Bronx, 1639-1913 (New York: by author, 1913); Articles by Edward Bergman, Peter Derrick, Evelyn González, Gary Hermalyn, Kenneth Jackson, Jonathan Kuhn, John McNamara, Lloyd Ultan, Joseph Viteritti, Gerard Wolfe, in Jackson, Kenneth T. (ed.), The Encyclopedia of New York City (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995); Jonnes, Jill, We're Still Here: the rise, fall, and resurrection of the South Bronx (Boston: Atlantic Monthly, 1986); McNamara, John, History in Asphalt: the origin of Bronx street and place names (Harrison, NY: Bronx County Historical Society / Harbor Hill Books, 1978); McNamara, John, McNamara's Old Bronx (Bronx: Bronx County Historical Society, 1989); Mead, Edna, Bronx Triangle: A portrait of Norwood (Bronx, NY: Bronx County Historical Society, 1982); Ross, Davis, The Bronx: An Interpretive Chronology (privately printed: rev.1988); Tieck, William, Riverdale, Kingsbridge, Spuyten Duyvil, New York City (Old Tappan, NY: Revell, 1968); Toscano, Jeanine, History of Williamsbridge (Bronx, NY: Williamsbridge Federation, 198?); Ultan, Lloyd and Gary Hermalyn, The Bronx in the Innocent Years (1890-1925) (New York: Harper and Row, 1985); Ultan, Lloyd, The Beautiful Bronx (1920-1950) (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1979); Willensky, Elliot, and Norval White, AIA Guide to New York City, 3rd ed. (New York: Harcourt, 1988); Welcome to Woodlawn Heights (Bronx, NY: Woodlawn Heights Taxpayer and Community Association, 1970). |