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*”the bronx” is the northernmost of the 5 boroughs of ‘new york city’ in the US state of ‘new york’, located south of ‘westchester county’*
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(many bridges and tunnels link ‘the bronx’ to the island and borough of ‘manhattan’ to the west over and under the narrow ‘harlem river’, as well as 3 longer bridges south over the ‘east river’ to the borough of ‘queens’)
(of the 5 boroughs, ‘the bronx’ is the only one on the U.S. mainland and, with a land area of 42 square miles (109 km2) and a population of 1,438,159 in 2014, has the fourth largest land area, the fourth highest population, and the 3rd-highest population density)
(‘the bronx’ is divided by the ‘bronx river’ into a hillier section in the west (closer to ‘manhattan’) and a flatter eastern section (closer to ‘long island’))
(‘east’ and ‘west’ street addresses are divided by ‘jerome avenue’ (the continuation of manhattan’s ‘fifth avenue’))
(the ‘west bronx’ was annexed to ‘new york city’ in ‘1874’, and the areas east of the ‘bronx river’ in ‘1895’)
(‘bronx county’ was separated from ‘new york county’ in ‘1914’)
(although ‘the bronx’ is the 3rd most densely populated county in the U.S., about a quarter of its area is open space, including ‘woodlawn cemetery’, ‘van cortlandt park’, ‘pelham bay park’, the ‘new york botanical garden’, and the ‘bronx zoo’ in the borough’s north and center, on land deliberately reserved in the late 19th century as urban development progressed northwards and eastwards from ‘manhattan’ with the building of ‘roads’, ‘bridges’, and ‘railways’)
(‘the bronx’ is named after ‘jonas bronck’ who created the first settlement as part of the ‘new netherland colony’ in ‘1639’)
(the native ‘lenape’ were displaced after ‘1643’ by settlers)
(in the 19th and 20th centuries, ‘the bronx’ received many ‘immigrant groups’ as it was transformed into an ‘urban community’, first from various european countries (particularly ‘ireland’, ‘germany’, and ‘italy’) and later from the ‘caribbean region’ (particularly ‘puerto rico’, ‘jamaica’, and ‘the dominican republic’), as well as ‘african-american migrants’ from the ‘american south’)
(this cultural mix has made ‘the bronx’ a wellspring of both ‘latin music’ and ‘hip-hop’)
(‘the bronx’ contains 1 of the 5 poorest ‘congressional districts’ in the USA (the 15th) but its wide diversity also includes ‘affluent’, ‘upper-income’, and ‘middle-income’ neighborhoods such as ‘riverdale’, ‘fieldston’, ‘spuyten duyvil’, ‘schuylerville’, ‘pelham bay’, ‘pelham gardens’, ‘morris park’, and ‘country club’)
(‘the bronx’ (particularly the ‘south bronx’) saw a sharp decline in ‘population’, ‘livable housing’, and the ‘quality of life’ in the ‘late 1960s’ and the ‘1970s’, culminating in a wave of ‘arson’)
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(since then the communities have shown significant ‘re-development’ starting in the ‘late 1980s’ before picking up pace in the ‘1990s’ into ‘today’)
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