Bronx NY - Antique Images

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, coterminous with Bronx County and the last of the 62 counties of New York State to be incorporated, originally part of Westchester County. Bronx is the third most densely populated county in the U.S.A. and about a quarter of its area is open space, including Van Cortlandt Park, Pelham Bay Park, the New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo. Several colleges and universities are located in the Bronx.

European colonization of the Bronx began in 1639. The Bronx was originally part of Westchester County, but it was ceded to New York County in two major parts (West Bronx, 1874 and East Bronx, 1895) before it became Bronx County.

The Museum (now Library Building), New York Botanical Gardens in Bronx Park. Vintage postcard, circa 1904. It was established in 1891. Today, the it has nearly 30 thousand trees and beautiful landscapes.

The majestic Keating Hall at Rose Hill Campus, Fordham University in north Bronx, adjacent to Botanical Gardens (vintage postcard by Gramatan Art Co.). Fordham University was established in 1841 and is one of the oldest Catholic university in the United States.

Campus of the New York University in Bronx (vintage postcard, postmark 1909). The University was founded in 1831, in Lower Manhattan. In 1894, it moved its undergraduate college to a campus in the Bronx, nicknamed "the Heights".

The Grace Episcopal Church in City Island, borough of Bronx, built in 1862 in the Carpenter Gothic style (photograph by Alex Lopez, NYC & Company).