Bronx Sections

The bronx is one of the five boroughs that make up new york city and is the only borough that is not on an island.

Bronx sections. It is south of westchester county. It is located northeast of manhattan. Learn how to create your own.

Northeast and east of manhattan across the harlem river. Go back to see more maps of new york city u s. The west bronx was annexed to new york city then largely confined to manhattan in 1874 and the areas east of the bronx river in 1895.

All of the bronx west of the bronx river was annexed to the city of new york in 1874 while everything east of the river became part of the city in 1895. State of new york the third most densely populated county in the united states. The bronx is referred to colloquially and legally as the bronx.

This map shows neighborhoods in bronx. The northwest bronx northeast bronx and. The southwest bronx south of fordham road and west of the bronx river.

A second system divides the borough first and foremost into the following sections. All areas not in the south bronx southwest bronx i e. Neighborhoods in the bronx.

Neighborhoods in the bronx. All parts of the bronx east of the bronx river as opposed to jerome avenue the bronx river divides the borough nearly perfectly in half putting the earlier settled more urban and hillier sections in the western lobe and the newer more suburbanesque coastal sections in the eastern lobe. The bronx became a part of new york city in sections between the years 1874 and 1898.