the first european settler to come to the bronx came in 1639. his name was jonas bronck. b-r-o-n-c-k. in 1874, all the areas east were west of the river was annexed to the city. and in 1898 they decided that the two areas previously annexed should also become a borough. but what to call it since it never had a name before. they looked at the map and right smack in the middle of the territory ran the bronx river, so they named it after the river, the borough of the bronx, and that is why it is called the bronx, and not just plain bronx. if you have a question about the bronx, chances are lloyd altan has the answer.
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liebman s is one of the last. there used to be dozens of places where you could get your brisket, and chopped liver. a good pastrami. there used to be lots of places to get your reuben or cherry soda to drink. howard cosell is on the air. suddenly, you see a tongue of flame licking up into the sky. and he says, this is the kind of thing that jimmy carter saw, ladies and gentlemen, the bronx is burning. the old image of the bronx as middle class, healthy area had survived up until 1977. this shattered it. the bronx was burning like the story, and that stuck. politicians making the south bronx a poster child for what was wrong, hopelessly be wrong, would never, we were told, get any better. so you now have a slum lord, essentially, snapping up large numbers of buildings. yes.