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Bookmark or Share- Morrisania, Bronx - WikipediaMorrisania (/ ˌ m ɒr ɪ ˈ s eɪ n i ə / MORR-i-SAY-nee-ə) is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern Bronx, New York City, New York. Its boundaries are the Cross-Bronx Expressway to the north, Crotona-Prospect Avenue to the east, East 163rd Street to the south, and Webster Avenue to the west.
- Morrisania: The South Bronx and the old days of American ...Was there an estate in New York ever as beautiful as Morrisania, nearly 2,000 acres that hugged the Harlem River until it opened out into the turbulent East River as it coursed past small islands and flowed into the Long Island Sound?
- Morrisania, New York | Encyclopedia.comLocated in what now is the South Bronx, Morrisania was the ancestral home of the Morris family. It first experienced the war by being on the British route of advance to White Plains during the New York Campaign.
- MORRISANIA, Bronx - Forgotten New YorkMORRISANIA, Bronx. Much of the southern Bronx was owned in the colonial era by the Morris family. Richard Morris, originally from Wales, purchased a large estate called Broncksland from a Samuel Edsall in 1670; his grandson, Lewis Morris (1726-1798), served in the Continental Congress from 1775-1777, and in the NY state legislature between 1777 ...
- Morrisania/Crotona Neighborhood Profile – NYU Furman CenterIn 2021, there were an estimated 175,532 people in Morrisania/Crotona, of which 0.5% identified as Asian, 29.9% identified as Black, 61.3% identified as Hispanic, and 3.6% identified as white.
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