The Bronx, New York’s only borough attached to the American mainland, now crams a population of nearly 1.5 million into 42 hilly square miles. It boasts the vertiginous Van Cortlandt Park, the ...

The Bronx? You gotta be kidding me. That’s how I imagine a lot of people might react to the thought of reading a 500-plus-page history of the Bronx, the only borough of New York City attached to the ...

In "Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough" (‎Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New Yorker writer Ian Frazier takes readers on a twisty and entertaining tour of the Bronx's rich ...

Ian Frazier, is a writer who, for lack of a better term, does the thing. In the eighties, he was fascinated by the great plains - the broad swath of flat land that extends from the North of Texas all ...

In 1930, the Bronx was 50% Jewish. It’s a statistic that always surprises me, partly because the intense Jewish nostalgia over the Lower East Side and Brooklyn overshadows the Bronx, and partly ...

Cheryl Pope, "THEN AND THERE" (2012), faux gold leaf (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Editor’s note: We asked two Hyperallergic contributors to visit No Longer Empty’s This Side of ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough" (‎Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New Yorker writer ...