The Bronx is a borough of New York City. The Bronx has a land area of 42 square miles and a population of 1,472,654 in the 2020 census. Over 75 different languages are spoken on its streets, although English and Spanish prevail over the rest. Although the Bronx is the third most densely populated county in the U.S., about a quarter of its area is open space.

The Bronx has many blessings:

The Bronx Zoo is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States, The Bronx Zoo is the country’s largest metropolitan zoo, with more than 6,000 animal spread across 265 acres in Bronx Park 

Yankee Stadium where Babe Ruth became a baseball legend

The New York Botanical Garden is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City. Established in 1891, it is located on a 250-acre site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants. The New York Botanical Garden is a living museum, an educational institution, and a plant research and conservation organization. It is the largest Botanical Garden in the state of New York.

Three of NYC’s ten largest parks are located in The Bronx: Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx Park and Pelham Bay Park, which is the biggest park in NYC at 2,772 acres (more than 3 times the size of Manhattan’s Central Park).

Pelham Bay Park - which is the biggest park in NYC at 2,772 acres (more than 3 times the size of Manhattan’s Central Park

The GREENEST borough in NYC with 25% of the land as dedicated parkland.

The nation's oldest public golf course is in the Bronx, Van Cortlandt Park Golf Course.

Batman is a Bronxite. The Dark Knight was born right here in The Bronx by cartoonist Bob Kane who worked out of his bedroom in his parents’ apartment in The Bronx. He had fellow Bronxite Bill Finger create Batman’s background story. Both Kane and Finger are DeWitt Clinton High School grads.

The Bronx is home to music and dance. The sounds and styles of hip-hop were born in the Bronx. As the birthplace of Hip-Hop, the borough is brimming with music, art and culture. It is also the birthplace of breakdancing. It is where mambo and salsa became popular in the United States.

The Bronx is a home to many universities and colleges, including CUNY – Lehman College, CUNY Bronx Community College, CUNY Hostos Community College, Fordham University, Manhattan College and more.

The Grand Concourse, The Bronx’s Most Famous Street. Also known as The Grand Boulevard and Concourse, and the 5.2 mile boulevard of dreams. The Grand Concourse has the largest collection of Art Deco Buildings in America. The “Park Avenue of the Bronx” is modeled after the Champs Élysées in Paris.

Penny Marshall lived here. Better known as Laverne DeFazio from the hit comedy show, Laverne and Shirley was raised right here in the Bronx and lived on the Grand Concourse.

The Lincoln Memorial statue of Abraham Lincoln was first carved in what is now a vacant lot in the Bronx. You'll have to go to the nation's capitol to see the Lincoln Memorial. Honest Abe's gigantic marble memorial was just one of the works of the Italian-born Piccirilli brothers. They're also the sculptors behind the world-famous Patience and Fortitude lion statues, which you'll find at the New York Public Library’s main branch on 42nd Street in Manhattan.

Do you like bananas? There's a banana-ripening facility in Hunt's Point! Before landing in stores all over the city, bananas are basically tricked into ripeness in pressurized rooms at the Banana Distributors of New York warehouse.

The Bronx, the only mainland borough, and is connected to Manhattan by a dozen bridges and railroad tunnels and to Queens by the Robert F. Kennedy (formerly called Triborough), Bronx-Whitestone, and Throgs Neck bridges.

The Bronx's very own High Bridge is the oldest in all of NYC! The High Bridge is basically an NYC relic. Standing over the Harlem River, it was built in the mid-19th century as part of the Croton Aqueduct system, and you walk over the original pipes when you cross this bridge!

Rikers Island Jail Complex is on an island in the East River, home to the large jail complex for the entire city, is also part of the Bronx.

Home to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans

Woodlawn Cemetery, dating back to 1863, is now a National Historic Landmark.