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Bronx
(bräŋks)
northernmost borough of New York City, between the Harlem River & Long Island Sound: pop. 1,333,000
usually called the Bronx
Origin: after Jonas Bronck, early N.Y. settler
See Bronx in American Heritage Dictionary 4
A borough of New York City in southeast New York on the mainland north of Manhattan. The Bronx was first settled by Jonas Bronck (died c. 1643), a Dane in the service of the Dutch West India Company, and became part of Greater New York in 1898. Population: 1,360,000.
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