I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.
Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.
Yankee Stadium was the only thing we had in the Bronx. It was an institution.
My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.
I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.
I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.
I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.
Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of 'The Color Purple.' It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.
The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.
[to Carlito] Benny Blanco: Hey remember me, Benny Blanco from the Bronx?
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.
I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.
Sonny: You gotta do what your heart tells you to do. Let me tell you somethin' right now. You're only allowed three great women in your lifetime. They come along like the great fighters, every ten years. Rocky Marciano. Sugar Ray Robinson. Joe Louis....
I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well.
I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
