JLo's Bronx
Possibly the most successful and famous person who was born in The Bronx is Jennifer Lopez, popularly known as JLo. The Bronx is one of New York's five boroughs. It was named after the Bronck family, Dutch farmers who owned a huge tract of ... [... more]
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Bill Aguado
WritersCorps was started in 1994 to help at-risk youth in three urban centers: San Francisco, Washington, DC, and New York City (the Bronx). Thousands of children and teenagers have since benefited from finding creative expression through writing. [... more]
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Ray Negron
Ray Negron grew up in the Bronx, New York. When he was a teenager, he was caught spraying graffiti on the side of Yankee Stadium, and put to work by Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. Negron became a Yankee batboy, played minor league ball, and ... [... more]
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Richard Newirth
WritersCorps was started in 1994 to help at-risk youth in three urban centers: San Francisco, Washington, DC, and New York City (the Bronx). Thousands of children and teenagers have since benefited from finding creative expression through writing. [... more]
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Peter Golenbock
Peter Golenbock is the author/co-author of seventeen books, including Wrigleyville; Wild, High and Tight. The Life and Death of Billy Martin; Bums; and the New York Times bestsellers Dynasty, The Bronx Zoo (with Sparky Lyle), Number 1 (with Billy ... [... more]
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Priscilla Belz Jenkins
Martin Classen has illustrated Tide Pools by Ronald Rood. He lives in the Bronx, NY. [... more]
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Arthur Nersesian
. He has also written three books of poems and one book of plays. Nersesian was the managing editor of the literary magazine "The Portable Lower East Side" and was an English teacher at Hostos Community College (C.U.N.Y.) in the South Bronx. He [... more]
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Harry Mazer
Harry Mazer's The Last Mission is drawn closely from his experiences as a seventeen-year-old in the Army Air Corps. Like Jack, he was a Jewish boy from the Bronx full of fantasies about heroism, and like Jack, he became a waist gunner and never ... [... more]
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Wildlife Conservation Society
From the moment the very first animals-two small, bedraggled prairie dogs-arrived at the Bronx Zoo in 1899, history was being made. Zookeeping has steadily been evolving over the years: Today, animals that would once have been kept in iron cages ... [... more]
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Lloyd Ultan
A native Bronxite takes us back to the heyday years of the Bronx. click for more> Lloyd Ultan [... more]
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Ytasha Womack
Hip-hop culture is now in the mainstream.Suburban teens take their fashion cues from Diddy and expect to have Three 6 Mafia play their sweet sixteen parties.From the Boogie Down Bronx to the heartland, hip-hop's influence is greater than its ... [... more]
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Fred Goodman
Woodlawn Cemetery is a massive necropolis, four hundred immaculately and privately maintained acres in the north Bronx that serve as the final resting place... Fred Goodman [... more]
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