20th century
1900s
- 1900 - The first class of the Lincoln School for Nurses graduated.[23]
- 1901 - The first City Island Bridge opens.
- 1904 - IRT subway begins operating.[19]
- 1905
- New York Public Library Mott Haven branch opens.[24]
- Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences founded.[1]
- 145th Street Bridge opens.
- 1906
- Jerome Park Reservoir built.[25]
- The 52nd Police Precinct Station House and Stable is completed.
- Randall Comfort writes History of Bronx Borough, City of New York, which was published by the North Side News Press, of the Bronx.[26]
- Ota Benga is exhibited in the Bronx Zoo's Monkey House.[27] The Howard Colored Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn later provided housing for him.[28]
- 1907
- The Bronx Home News begins publication.[29]
- Thomas Edison's Edison Studios moves to the Bronx.
- 1908 - Pelham Bridge opens.
- 1909
- Grand Concourse begins operating.
- John F. Murray, the Commissioner of Public Works, becomes the second borough president.[20] after governor Charles Evans Hughes removes Louis F. Haffen from office.[30]
- 1909 South Brother island became uninhabited when the summer home of Jacob Ruppert, a brewery magnate and early owner of the New York Yankees, burned down.[31]
1910s
- 1910
- Cyrus C. Miller becomes the third borough president.[20]
- The first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is filmed in the Bronx by Edison Studios.
- 1911 - Bronx Hospital established.[32]
- 1912
- Bronx County created (effected in 1914).[33][17]
- Design of the Bronx flag adopted.[25]
- The New York Knickerbockers of the United States Baseball League played in the Bronx Oval.[34]
- December 3: Borough President Miller proposed the creation of terminal markets in New York City, including the seeds of the original Bronx Terminal Market.[35]
- December 16: The first suffrage hike in America, organized by Rosalie Gardiner Jones, goes from the Bronx to Albany.[36][37]
- 1913
- Montefiore Medical Center moves to its current location in the Norwood neighborhood of the Bronx.
- Bronx Opera House opens.[38]
- 1914
- January 1: The parts of New York County which had been annexed from Westchester County were newly constituted as the County of the Bronx, the 62nd and last county to be created by the state, effective in 1914.[39][40]
- Bronx Board of Trade established.[41]
- October 28: Birth of Jonas Salk.[42]
- Kingsbridge Armory built.[25]
- Douglas Mathewson becomes the fourth borough president.[20]
- Francis W. Martin takes office as the first Bronx County District Attorney.
- 1916 - Radio 2XG begins broadcasting.[14]
- 1917
- March 3: New York City transit stations for the IRT White Plains Road Line, including Allerton Avenue, Bronx Park East, Burke Avenue, East 180th Street, Gun Hill Road, Nereid Avenue, Pelham Parkway, 219th Street, 225th Street, and 233rd Street were opened for service.[43][44]
- The Bronx Terminal Market built.[18]
- Portions of the IRT Jerome Avenue Line opened.
- The Pelham Bay Naval Training Station was constructed.[45]
- Columbia University turns over the Columbia War Hospital, to the United States Army. It is renamed U.S. Army General Hospital No. 1.[46]
- The Haffen Brewing Company is purchased, and closed down by Jacob Ruppert, Sr.
- 1918
- Bronx Rotary Club formed.[47]
- Henry Bruckner becomes the fifth borough president.[20]
- IRT Jerome Avenue Line fully opened.
- Portions of the IRT Pelham Line are opened.
- The Bronx International Exposition of Science, Arts and Industries takes place in Exposition Park (Starlight Park)
1920s
- 1920
- Population: 732,016.[48][49]
- Final part of the IRT Pelham Line is opened.
- 1921 - May: The Bronx Board of Trade honors James L. Wells as the "Father of the Bronx".
- 1922 - Manhattan College moves to the Riverdale section of the Bronx.
- 1923 - Yankee Stadium opens.[25]
- 1924 - The Andrew Freedman Home opens.
- 1925 - Bronx River Parkway built.[32]
- 1927 - Amalgamated Dwellings housing project built.[14][32]
- 1928 - Alexander's department store in business.
- 1929
- Loew's Paradise Theatre in business.[38]
- June 26: Birth of Jules Feiffer.[42]
1930s
- 1930
- Loehmann's shop in business.[32]
- December 10, 1930: A bank run at the 1254 Southern Boulevard branch leads to the financial collapse of the Bank of United States.[50][51][52]
- Population: 1,265,258.[48]
- 1931
- Hunter College Bronx campus opens.[32]
- Stella D'oro bakery in business.[18]
- 1933
- IND Concourse Line opens.
- Monroe College established in the West Farms section of the Bronx.
- July 7: The Industrial Union Party DeLeonist political party is formed at 1032 Prospect Avenue.
- 1934
- James J. Lyons becomes the sixth borough president (in office until 1962).[20]
- Bronx County Courthouse built.
- 1935 - Construction of the Mosholu Parkway begins.
- 1936
- The Triboro Bridge[42] and Henry Hudson Bridge open.[25]
- June 19, 1936: In Yankee Stadium, German ex-heavyweight champion boxer Max Schmeling defeats American and not-yet-champion Joe Louis, in an upset that was used as propaganda by the Nazi regime.[53][54]
- 1937
- United States Post Office–Bronx Central Annex built.[55]
- Bronx County Jail built.[citation needed]
- Mosholu Parkway is completed.
- Williamsbridge Oval Park is opened.
- 1938
- Bronx High School of Science established.
- SUNY Maritime College moves to its present Throggs Neck campus in Fort Schuyler.
- June 22, 1938: Now-heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis defeats Max Schmeling, in a rematch of their 1936 Yankees Stadium bout, again played up by both countries for propaganda purposes.[56][54]
- 1939 - Bronx-Whitestone Bridge opens.[25]
1940s
- 1940
- Bronx Press-Review newspaper begins publication.[29]
- April 25: Birth of Al Pacino.[42]
- 1941
- IRT Dyre Avenue Line opens.
- Casa Amadeo music store opens.
- 1944 Cyrus C. Miller was appointed as the first official Bronx Borough Historian in 1944, and continued that appointment until 1953.[57]
- 1946 - April: The United Nations moved to Hunter College's Bronx campus (now Lehman College) for almost five months, until August 15, 1946.[58]
- 1947 - Over six million New Yorkers are vaccinated in order to end the 1947 New York City smallpox outbreak.
- 1948 - The remaining streetcars of the Third Avenue Railway are replaced by buses.
- 1949 - Kingsbridge Historical Society formed.[59]
1950s
- 1950
- Patterson Houses built.
- Riverdale Press newspaper is founded.
- 1951 - Bronx River Houses built.
- 1953
- Liebman's deli in business.[18]
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine established.
- 1955
- Deegan Expressway[25] and Cross Bronx Expressway begin operating.
- Bronx County Historical Society established.[60]
- 1956 - The Third Avenue Railway is purchased by New York City Omnibus Corporation.
- 1957
- Bronx Community College established.
- July 20, 1957: the Rev. Billy Graham holds a prayer service at Yankees Stadium attended by over 100,000 people, including vice-president Richard Nixon.[54]
- 1959 - Original Products botánica active.[61]
1960s
- 1960
- Loeser's deli in business.[18]
- Freedomland U.S.A. opens.
- Häagen-Dazs is created by Reuben and Rose Mattus.
- First coronary artery bypass surgery performed at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Bronx Municipal Hospital Center.[14]
- 1961
- The last class of the Lincoln School for Nurses graduated.[23]
- Throgs Neck Bridge opens.[25]
- 1962
- Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center established.[32][9]
- Joseph F. Periconi becomes the seventh borough president.[20]
- Bus operator New York City Omnibus Corporation goes bankrupt and its operations are taken over by the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority.
- The Bronx Council on the Arts is established.
- 1963
- The revised (1963) New York City Charter creates community boards within each borough.[62]
- Cross Bronx Expressway completed.
- 1965 - November 9: Northeast blackout of 1965.
- 1966 - Herman Badillo becomes the eighth borough president.[20]
- 1967
- City University of New York's Lehman College established.
- Hunts Point Terminal Market opens.[18]
- 1968
- Museum of Bronx History opens.[25]
- Savage Seven street gang formed.[63]
- Hostos Community College established.
- 1969
- Graffitist Taki 183 active.[64]
- Bronx Borough Hall is demolished.
1970s
- 1970
- Co-op City housing complex built.[17]
- Robert Abrams becomes the ninth borough president.[20]
- July 14: Members of the Young Lords Party staged a protest which lasted 12 hours to address issues at Lincoln Hospital.
- Population: 1,471,701.[48]
- 1971
- Bronx Museum of the Arts established.
- December 8: The Hoe Avenue peace meeting between New York City gangs took place.
- The Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York is created to handle drugs related crimes.
- 1972 - BronxWorks human service organization is founded as "Citizens Advice Bureau".
- 1973 - Hip hop disc jockey Kool Herc active; Universal Zulu Nation founded.[64][65]
- 1974
- Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition formed.[66]
- Hip hop disc jockeys Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Caz, and Grandmaster Flash active.[65]
- 1975
- Bronx News newspaper is founded.
- The newly completed 44 story tall River Park Towers become the tallest buildings in the borough.[67]
- 1976
- City Island Nautical Museum opens.
- July 15: Fordham Hospital, which was the first public (municipal) hospital in the Bronx, is closed.
- September 28: Muhammad Ali wins the last boxing match to be staged at Yankee Stadium. Police officers demonstrated outside the stadium as a part of a labor action,[54]
- October 25: The $100 million North Central Bronx Hospital is opened[68][69]
- 1977
- July 13–14: New York City blackout of 1977.[42]
- October: United States President Jimmy Carter visits South Bronx.[70]
- Rock Steady Crew musical group formed.[65]
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow receives the Nobel prize for the invention of Radioimmunoassay (RIA), which she developed with Solomon Berson while working in the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital.
- 1978
- Disco Fever dance club active.[64]
- Royal Caribbean Bakery in business.[18]
- Robert García becomes U.S. representative for New York's 21st congressional district.[17][71]
- Fashion Moda art space active.[72]
- 1979
- Stanley Simon becomes the tenth borough president.[20]
- Cold Crush Brothers musical group active.[64]
- October 2, 1979: Pope John Paul II celebrates "Mass at the Stadium for World Justice and Peace" at Yankee Stadium.[54]
1980s
- 1981 - Bronx Times-Reporter newspaper is founded.
- 1982
- Bathgate Industrial Park opened
- Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, a performing arts and visual arts center in Hostos Community College opens.
- 1983 - Baen Books, the science fiction and fantasy publishing house is formed.
- 1984 - Shooting of Eleanor Bumpurs by police.
- 1987 - Fernando Ferrer becomes the eleventh borough president.[20]
- 1988
- Norwood News begins publication.[29]
- Conviction of Wedtech scandal participants.[42]
- 1989
- The offices of the Riverdale Press are firebombed
- The first Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery restaurant opens on East Gunhill Road.[73]
1990s
- 1990
- José E. Serrano becomes U.S. representative for New York's 18th congressional district.[74]
- 87 people die in Happy Land fire
- June 21, 1990: Nelson Mandela is welcomed at Yankees Stadium by 80,000 people at the beginning of an 11-day tour of the United States, after being released from prison in South Africa.[54]
- 1991 - Concourse Plaza Multiplex cinema in business.[38]
- 1992 - Mothers on the Move group formed.[66][2]
- 1993
- Riverdale Review newspaper begins publication.
- The POINT Community Development Corporation is founded in Hunts Point.[75]
- The movie A Bronx Tale is released.
- 1994
- Death of Anthony Baez
- First "Tour de Bronx" bike ride, organized by Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer and the Bronx Tourism Council, was held.[76]
- 1995 - Per Scholas, the educational nonprofit organization is established.
- 1996
- La Division 21 botánica active.[61]
- July 4: Death of Nathaniel Levi Gaines at the 167th Street station "D" line platform.[77]
- Lloyd Ultan is appointed as the fourth Bronx Borough Historian by Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer.[78]
- 1999 - February 5: Shooting of Amadou Diallo.[32]
- 2000
- Bronx Preparatory Charter School established.
- Ghetto Film School active.[3]
- October 8: Molotov cocktails are thrown at the Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale[79]
