The Bronx

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About The Bronx

The Bronx is New York City's northernmost borough and the only one on the mainland of the United States. It takes its name from Jonas Bronck, a Swedish-born settler who farmed here in the 1630s, and it grew from estates and villages into a dense urban borough after the subway arrived in the early 1900s. Grand art deco apartment buildings still line the Grand Concourse, the boulevard designed to be the Bronx's answer to the Champs-Elysees.

Today the Bronx has about 1.4 million residents and a strong Latino and Caribbean identity. It is the birthplace of hip-hop, which emerged at block parties in the 1970s, and Arthur Avenue in Belmont is one of the city's most loved Little Italys, with bakeries, delis and old-school restaurants. Yankee Stadium, home of the most successful franchise in American sports, sits just across the river from Manhattan.

The borough is also surprisingly green, with about a quarter of its land in parks. The Bronx Zoo is one of the largest city zoos in the world, the New York Botanical Garden's glass Enid A. Haupt Conservatory anchors 250 acres of gardens, and Pelham Bay Park, the city's largest park, includes Orchard Beach. Van Cortlandt Park, Wave Hill's riverside gardens and the restored High Bridge over the Harlem River round out the outdoor options.

Best seasonApril to June and September to October for the zoo, gardens and baseball season.

Ideal stayTwo days for the Bronx Zoo, the Botanical Garden, Arthur Avenue and a Yankees game.

ArrivingLaGuardia Airport is about 20 minutes away; the 4, B and D trains reach Yankee Stadium and the 2 and 5 reach the zoo.

Your The Bronx Bucket List: 12 Top Picks

Sports 1

Yankee Stadium

Opened in 2009 across 161st Street from the site of the original 1923 ballpark, the current Yankee Stadium recreates the old park'...

Wildlife 1

Bronx Zoo

Opened in 1899 and run by the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Bronx Zoo covers about 265 acres along the Bronx River, one of th...

Parks 3

New York Botanical Garden

Across Fordham Road from the zoo, the New York Botanical Garden spreads over 250 acres, including a stretch of old-growth forest a...

Wave Hill

This 28-acre public garden and cultural center in Riverdale looks across the Hudson to the Palisades from a former country estate....

Van Cortlandt Park

Covering more than 1,000 acres in the northwest Bronx, Van Cortlandt Park is the city's third-largest park, mixing meadows, forest...

Beaches 1

Pelham Bay Park and Orchard Beach

At about 2,700 acres, Pelham Bay Park is New York City's largest park, more than three times the size of Central Park. Its summer...

Food and Drink 1

Arthur Avenue

Often called the real Little Italy of New York, the Belmont neighborhood around Arthur Avenue is lined with Italian bakeries, butc...

Neighborhoods 1

City Island

Reached by a short bridge from Pelham Bay Park, this island about a mile and a half long feels like a New England fishing village...

Landmarks 1

High Bridge

Completed in 1848 for the Croton Aqueduct, the High Bridge is the oldest standing bridge in New York City, built to carry fresh wa...

Museums 1

Bronx Museum of the Arts

On the Grand Concourse a short walk from Yankee Stadium, this museum founded in 1971 focuses on contemporary art, with an emphasis...

History 2

Edgar Allan Poe Cottage

Edgar Allan Poe spent his last years, from 1846 to 1849, in this small wooden farmhouse, where he wrote Annabel Lee and The Bells...

Woodlawn Cemetery

Founded in 1863, this 400-acre cemetery and National Historic Landmark is an outdoor gallery of funerary architecture, with more t...

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