The Zoological Park at Bronx Borough, New York City, opened in 1899, is one of the largest in the world.
Several settlements in the Bronx were made by the English and the Dutch between 1640 and 1650.
Washington prepared to withstand the British behind fortifications on Harlem Heights, but discovering that Howe was attempting to outflank him by landing troops in the rear he retreated to the mainland, leaving only a garrison at Fort Washington, and established a line of fortified camps on the hills overlooking the Bronx river as far as White Plains.
Tilden; the other in the S., including Ludlow, Van Cortlandt Terrace and Park Hill (adjoining Riverdale in the borough of the Bronx), a parklike reserve with winding streets and drives.
Three giant snapping turtles turned up inside a Bronx, New York sewage treatment plant in 1988.