16 Facts About South Bronx

South Bronx is an area of the New York City borough of the Bronx.

The South Bronx then became musically notable as hip-hop music, rap, and other creative components started becoming common within the borough.

Geographic definitions of the South Bronx have evolved and are disputed but certainly include the neighborhoods of Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris.

Originally referring to the industrial area below East 138th Street, the name "South Bronx" symbolically has had its northern boundary shift northward to East 149th Street, East 161st Street, the Cross Bronx Expressway, and Fordham Road over the years.

The South Bronx is served by the NYPD's 40th, 41st, 42nd, 44th, and 48th Precincts.

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South Bronx was originally called the Manor of Morrisania, and later Morrisania.

Originally denoting only Mott Haven and Melrose, the South Bronx extended up to the Cross Bronx Expressway by the 1960s, encompassing Hunts Point, Morrisania, and Highbridge.

Cross South Bronx Expressway, completed in 1963, was a part of Robert Moses's urban renewal project for New York City.

Around this time, the South Bronx experienced some of its worst instances of urban decay, with the loss of 300,000 residents and the destruction of entire city blocks' worth of buildings.

Police statistics show that as the crime wave moved north across the Bronx, the remaining White tenants in the South Bronx were preferentially targeted for violent crime by the influx of young, minority criminals because they were seen as easy prey.

Property owners who had waited too long to try to sell their buildings found that almost all of the property in the South Bronx had already been redlined by the banks and insurance companies.

Primarily beginning in the 1980s, parts of the South Bronx started to experience urban renewal with rehabilitated and new residential structures, including subsidized multifamily townhomes and apartment buildings.

The South Bronx has a very strong graffiti scene despite the city's crackdown on illegal graffiti.

However, graffiti in the South Bronx began to occur in the early 1970s and managed to travel to different boroughs via the New York City Subway system.

The South Bronx is known worldwide as the birthplace of hip-hop culture.

South Bronx is home to both for-profit and nonprofit organizations that offer a range of professional training and other educational programs.