The Literary Bronx

Noel Quiñones: The Poetry of an Afro-Boricua from the Bronx

“The Bronx been burning and you’re all pr-pr-prone to Alzheimer’s!” (Quiñones, “The Get Down,” 1:28). Whenever people think of the

Local residents and people all around the world have identified the Bronx as the city’s “worst” borough for decades. When

If you’ve ever heard of Hunts Point in the Bronx, New York, there’s a good chance you associate it with

The best people grew up in the Bronx. Okay… maybe that was a bit too broad of a statement. What

In the early twentieth century, a human was exhibited in the same cage as monkeys in the Bronx Zoo. The

In Liz Murray’s memoir Breaking Night (2010), the author gives a vivid portrait of her life in the Bronx, growing

In the poetry collection Conversations with My Skin (2011), Peggy Robles-Alvarado shares her resilient story of becoming pregnant at fifteen

Orchard Beach, also known as the Bronx or Puerto Rican Riviera, is a man-made beach situated along the Long Island

In a tense moment early in Tom Wolfe’s satirical novel The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), Sherman McCoy speeds through

Going back to the 1970s, the Bronx, especially the southern part of the borough, was looked upon by many as