In February 1932, the 'Times' published an account of community resistance to the eviction of three families in the Bronx, observing, 'Probably because of the cold, the crowd numbered only 1,000.'
I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.
New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.
It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge.
The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable
There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.
I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.
I'm from a rough place: the Bronx.
I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
I grew up in New York City. And I lived in the Bronx in a place called Parkchester.
I grew up in the Bronx.
I chose 'BronxWorks' because I'm from The Bronx, and I got raised in The Bronx, and I just know the struggle and how it is growing up in The Bronx.
The mini-series 'The Bronx is Burning' thoroughly embarrassed me the way the story was told.
I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.
Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.
Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.
My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the Bronx when I was 4 to be close to his music school. Then I got a music scholarship myself, at the age of 6, but that was for a school down in Greenwich Village. I had to take the elevated train and then the subway to get there.
Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.
I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx.
I grew up in the Bronx. I used to remember going to all these fancy stores in Manhattan to run errands or whatever, and I felt intimidated, like they did not talk to me because I was from the Bronx. I never want anyone to be intimidated by fashion. Fashion is fun or, at least, should be.
Why 'Do Bronx'? Because I'm from the slums, those are my roots.
I wrote three books about growing up in the Bronx.
