The Bronx

Sometimes it’s difficult for me to remember every place has a history regardless if residents care for it or not. However, it’s the most difficult when I think about the borough I live in, The Bronx. During my senior year of high school, I received an invitation from The Bronx County Historical Society to join an event. The society invited valedictorians from every Bronx High School to attend this awards reception. This event took place outside next to the Museum of Bronx History where the hosts provided food and entertainment. During the event, people spoke to the guests about either the society, the museum or the Bronx itself. However, I mainly think about how someone told us about how we’ll end up coming back to the Bronx long into our lives…

The Role of Language in Bronx Leadership Academy The performance of an individual in an academic setting depends on a number of factors, including the location of the space, endemic socio-cultural groups, and student-instructor relationships. High school students ranging from 13-20 years old were observed and interviewed in Bronx, NY. This ethnography aims to explore how language influences teacher-student relationships and can, in turn, affect the motivation of students at Bronx Leadership…

gentrification in the South Bronx by and “The SoHo Effect” by Roman Mars. They both talk about gentrification and how it affects permanent residents. Gentrification is used to describe the arrival of wealthier people to an urban district, which relates to increase in rents and property values, and changes in the district character and culture. Gentrification is often used negatively because it has often led to displacement of the poor and establishment of the rich. However, gentrification leads…

The Bronx has many locations where graffiti can be noticed. The grand concourse, a major route in the Bronx is home to many of the graffiti locations in New York. For instance, The Andrew Freedman home is a landmark for New York City and is located at 1125 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY. The house was many graffitti (artwork) on its boundary wall and in the inside as exhibitions. During 1924-1983, the Renaissance Palazzo styled Andrew Freedman home served as a beautiful location for the elderly. In…

ideas. For instances, in the 1970s, the economic was not the best and the wealthy people did not want to be living near a certain people. So, this situation formed an area of segregation called the South Bronx, where the many different cultures end up living together. However, there is an interesting history behind this moment of time, and it is about how this place was the responsible…

New York City in the 1980’s was a populace that was already developed and getting even more populated with such a great amount of diversity. New York City is not all skyscrapers and business like what people think of when they watch television, there are five boroughs in NYC. The boroughs of NYC are Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, and finally, Staten Island. Other than Manhattan, many of the other boroughs are mostly houses and apartment buildings as you would see in a regular neighborhood…

The controversy of Hip Hop’s negative influence has been a constant discussion over the decades since its inception. As both a music genre and a cultural movement, the reach of Hip is unprecedented, but this exposure has come to form a negative public image of the genre in the public conscious. Whenever an instance of gang violence, police shooting, or riot occurs, Hip Hop is quick to be blamed. But is Hip Hop misunderstood, and misrepresented by those? And does Hip Hop truly inspire its…

In Randol Contreras’ book, “The Stickup Kids” he does an ethnographic study of what is known as the Crack Era in the South Bronx. Contreras studies how society shaped people growing up in the South Bronx that led them into the world of drugs and crime in order to fulfill the American Dream. He does so by providing detailed field notes, creating a sociological framework of how components such as culture, deviance, socialization, crime and race contribute to the society as a whole. In this book,…

Ruskin, are involved in a hit-and-run case in the South Bronx after getting lost while driving. Many lawyers in the district attorney’s office remain indifferent at first towards the case because of its resemblance to many cases that preceded it. However, the lawyers and the media…

The one and only Kalief Browder: Kalief Browder was an outstanding individual, who lived in the Bronx parish of New York; Browder never had any problems with the authority until the age of 16. When he was falsely accused of stealing a backpack, also, on duty officers never read Mr. Browder his rights, but unfortunately they did detain him. Browder was in a state of shock while being processed in the state jail facility. He couldn’t believe they were blaming a petty crime on an innocent 16 year…