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Selection of Books on The Bronx

Always be sure to check the library catalog for additional options.

The Bronx [electronic resource] by Evelyn Diaz Gonzalez
Columbia University Press, 2004.
Freedomland [electronic resource] : Co-op City and the Story of New York by Annemarie H. Sammartino
Cornell University Press, 2022.
South Bronx Rising : The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City, 3rd ed. by Jill Jonnes
Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, 2022.
Call number [RH & LC Stacks] F128.68.B8 J65 2022
Working-Class Utopias : A History of Cooperative Housing in New York City by Robert M. Fogelson
Princeton University Press, 2022.
Call number [RH Stacks] HD7287.72.U62 N536 2022
The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico : Neil Connolly's Priesthood in the South Bronx by Angel Garcia
Fordham University Press, 2021.
Call number [RH & LC Stacks] BX4705 .G37 2021
Urban Legends [electronic resource] : The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin by Peter L'Official
Harvard University Press, 2020.
Poetic Resurrection [electronic resource] : The Bronx in American Popular Culture by Sina A. Nitzsche
Transcript Verlag, 2020.
The Young Lords [electronic resource] : A Radical History by Johanna Fernández
University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Call number [RH Stacks] F128.9.P85 F47 2020
South Bronx Battles : Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Renewal by Carolyn McLaughlin; David Gómez
University of California Press, 2019.
Call number [RH Stacks] F128.68.B8 M28 2019
Parkchester : A Bronx Tale of Race and Ethnicity by Jeffrey S. Gurock
Washington Mews Books, an imprint of New York University Press, 2019.
Call number [RH Stacks] F128.9.A1 G87 2019

Bronx Data

QuickFacts for the Bronx - U.S. Census Bureau
Table of statistics for Bronx County, NY.
Community Connect: Bronx Information Portal
Developed by Lehman College/CUNY with Socrata, the portal brings together Bronx-related open data on education, health, population, environment and sustainability, and more.
Community Boards
Information and reports for the (12) community board of the Bronx.
See Demographics & Data tab

Redlining in The Bronx

Image credit: Snippet of 1938 Home Owners' Loan Corporation Map of The Bronx via Mapping Inequality: Redlining New Deal America.

Selection of Books on Bronx History

History of Westchester County : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City by Thomas J. Scharf
L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
Call number [RH Stacks] F127 .W5 S34 1886 v.1 & v.2
The Borough of the Bronx, 1639-1913 : Its Marvelous Development and Historical Surroundings by Harry T. Cook ; assisted by Nathan J. Kaplan
Published by the author, 1913.
The Bronx and Its People; A History, 1609-1927
The Lewis Historical Pub. Co., Inc., 1927.
Call number F128.68.B8 W4
Volumes 1-3 are in both the RH Stacks & Special Collections
History in Asphalt : The Origin of Bronx Street and Place Names, The Bronx, New York City by John McNamara
Bronx County Historical Society & Harbor Hill Books, 1978.
Call number F128.68.B8 M3
Check the library catalog for editions 1-3.

Environment & Archaeology

Digging the Bronx : Recent Archaeology in the Borough by Allan S. Gilbert
Bronx County Historical Society, 2018.
Call number [RH Stacks] F128.39 .D54 2018
The Bronx River : An Environmental and Social History by Maarten De Kadt
History Press, 2011.
Call number [RH Stacks & LC Stacks] F128.68.B83 K33 2011

Bronx County Historical Society Resources

At Fordham Libraries:

Bronx County Historical Society Journal - Print
Fordham University Libraries holds print copies of this journal from its first issue to the most recent.
Additional Bronx County Historical Society Resources at Fordham
This link will show resources in the library catalog associated with the Bronx County Historical Society.

On the Bronx County Historical Society website:

Bronx County Historical Society
Holds a collection of almost 14,000 objects, 75,000 historic images and 3,245 cubic feet of archival material from the 17th century to the present.

Oral History Resources

Before the Fires : An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s by Mark D. Naison and Bob Gumbs
Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, 2016.
Call number [RH & LC Stacks] F129.B7 N35 2016

Bronx African American Oral History Collection
Conducted by scholars associated with Fordham's Department of African and African American Studies.

Just Kids from the Bronx : Telling It the Way It Was : An Oral History by Arlene Alda
Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Call number [LC & RH Stacks] F128.68.B8 A49 2015

Bronx Italian American History Initiative
A community engaged research project that studies the history of Italian and Italian American residents of the Bronx in the 20th century through oral history.
Bronx Jewish History Project
A local history project dedicated to the experiences of Jews in the Bronx through oral histories and cultural artifacts.
NYPL Community Oral History Project
Documents the city's unique communities by collecting oral histories at NYPL branch libraries (including the Bronx).

Maps

Miniature Atlas of the Borough of the Bronx Complete in Two Volumes
E. Belcher Hyde, 1912.
Access to Volume One
Access to Volume Two.

Bronx Fire Insurance, Topographic and Property Maps
Chronological list of atlases arranged by borough from the NYPL Digital Collections.
Additional Map Resources
Check out the additional resources on the Finding Maps tab.

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