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unusual facts about Melrose, Bronx


Webster Avenue

It stretches for 5.8 miles (9.33 kilometres) from Melrose to Woodlawn (on the Bronx-Westchester borderline).


Adolfo Carrión, Jr.

In the end, $800 million will be invested in construction of a new Yankee Stadium with at least 25% of the contracts going to Bronx businesses and at least 25% of the jobs going to residents of the Borough.

Al Burt

He lived for many years in the picturesque historic town of Melrose, Florida, until declining health dictated a move to the larger city of Jacksonville not long before his death.

Amalgamated Bank

In 1957, it financed the construction of Park Reservoir Housing Cooperative in the Bronx, which was the first affordable housing development created under New York State's Mitchell-Lama Housing Program.

Andrea Batista Schlesinger

Andrea directed a national campaign to engage college students in the discussion on the future of Social Security for the Pew Charitable Trusts, and served as Director of Public Relations of Teach For America before working as the education advisor to Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer.

Andrew I. Porter

He had been calling science fiction writers in the Bronx and Manhattan telephone books to discuss science fiction, and Donald Wollheim put him in touch with local science fiction fandom in New York City.

Arnold William Loehr

He was born in Spring Hill, Minnesota, the son of John Loehr and Katherine Spander, both natives of Germany, and was educated in Spring Hill and in Melrose, Minnesota.

Betty Diamond

In 1976 she began her residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY and in 1979 embarked on post-doctoral fellowship in Immunology with Dr. Matthew Scharff at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

Bronx Borough Courthouse

For several years, since the annexation of the West Bronx in 1874, several Bronx advocates including Louis F. Haffen, and The Association of the Bar, in the Borough of the Bronx, in the City of New York, had consistently been striving for the placement of a proper court house in the borough.

Bronx Borough Hall

The Parks Commissioner at the time, Newbold Morris supported the idea of tearing down the building to create more park space, possibly to replenish what was lost during the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway.

Bronx High School for the Visual Arts

The Bronx High School for the Visual Arts (BHSVA), familiarly known as Visual Arts, is a New York City public high school established as an art school in 2002 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Small Schools Initiative program (officially, the New Century High Schools Initiative).

Bronx News

A conservative Republican, Rizzo became a sharp critic of Guy Velella, the borough's only Republican elected official and Bronx GOP chairman.

Bronx Zoo

In February 2010, the Bronx Zoo put an "assurance colony" of Kihansi Spray Toads.

Bronx–Whitestone Bridge

The Bronx–Whitestone Bridge opened on April 29, 1939, in festivities led by then-Mayor of New York City Fiorello H. La Guardia.

Bruckner Expressway

It is named in honor of former Bronx Borough President and Congressman, Henry Bruckner (1871–1942), and was built on and over the roadway of Bruckner Boulevard.

Charles James Melrose

Melrose Park in New South Wales and Melrose Park in South Australia are both suburbs named after him, as well as James Melrose Road, which travels along the southern boundary of Adelaide Airport.

Charles Sanderson, Baron Sanderson of Bowden

He was created a life peer in June 1985 as Baron Sanderson of Bowden, of Melrose in the District of Ettrick and Lauderdale and speaks regularly in the House of Lords.

Craigroyston F.C.

Although associated with a club from the Scottish Borders, Melrose and several of his team emanated from the capital.

E. R. Sanborn

The Bronx Zoo, led by Hornaday and the American Bison Society raised a small herd for reintroduction to their home range.

Fluffernutter

Archibald Query invented a creation he called Marshmallow Creme in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1917, while Amory and Emma Curtis of Melrose, Massachusetts, invented Snowflake Marshmallow Creme in 1913.

Global Boxing Gym

Global Boxing has also served as a filming facility for Everlast photo shoots for professional athletes such as NFL running back Reggie Bush, Super Six Champion Andre Ward, 2008 Bronx Olympic medalist Deontay Wilder and many more.

Habitancum

The fort was one of the defensive structures built along Dere Street, a Roman road running from York to Corbridge and onwards to Melrose.

J. Morgan Puett

Her work has been exhibited at the Fabric Workshop and Museum of Philadelphia, Wave Hill (Bronx, New York); Spoleto USA in Charleston; SC, the Tate, the Serpentine Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Jack Rosen

The rest of his childhood took place in The Bronx neighborhood of New York City, where he later attended Columbus High School and later graduated from City University of New York with a degree in mathematics.

John M. J. Quinn

John M. J. Quinn (1886–1955) was a Monsignor and from 1951 to 1955 head of St. Francis Xavier's Church in the Bronx, New York, and also head of the Catholic War Veterans.

Joseph Luco Pagano

In a 1977 article, the New York Times said that Pagano had ordered beatings and arson attacks against Bronx health facility operators to gain their participation in a scheme to extort thousands of dollars from the Medicaid health insurance fund.

Joseph Melrose

Melrose currently serves Special Advisor to United Nations University Rector Prof. Dr. Konrad Osterwalder and as president of the National Model United Nations Board of Directors and is a professor of International Relations and serves as the current ambassador-in-residence at Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA.

Joseph Owades

Born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, he graduated from City College of New York (undergraduate) and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (Master’s and PhD in biochemistry, with a dissertation on cholesterol).

Kool DJ Red Alert

Kool DJ Red Alert was recognized with a location on the Bronx Walk of Fame, a series of street signs recognizing people of note from the borough, alongside other notables such as Colin Powell, who have originated from the Bronx.

Ledbury Park

Developer H.A. Clark named a number of the new streets, such as Marmion, Deloraine, Melrose,and Falkirk after the works of Sir Walter Scott.

Lippincott Mansion

The Lippincott Mansion (also known as the Melrose Hall) is a historic site in Ormond Beach, Florida, United States.

Majora Carter

Sustainable South Bronx, an organization Carter founded, publicly opposed FreshDirect's move to the Bronx.

Mark Schwahn

The move to tap Schwahn to conceive a contemporary version of Melrose Place resembles The CW and CPT's decision to have Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas pen the original script for 90210.

Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey

His idea was to build a model monastery for England, sharing his knowledge of the experience of the Roman traditions in an area previously more influenced by Celtic Christianity stemming from missionaries of Melrose and Iona.

Mount Hood Golf Club

The land that comprises Mount Hood was donated to the City of Melrose and developed as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration in the early 1930s.

Osco Drug

Also in 1968, Osco's headquarters relocated from Melrose Park, Illinois to Franklin Park, Illinois.

Pumpsie Green

In 1962, after a weekend of humiliating losses to the New York Yankees, Green along with Gene Conley got off the bus in the middle of a traffic jam in the Bronx.

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx is a 1970 film directed by Waris Hussein and written by Gabriel Walsh.

Radioimmunoassay

This technique was developed in the 1950s by Rosalyn Yalow and Solomon Aaron Berson working at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital affiliated with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

River Tweed

Major towns through which the Tweed flows include Innerleithen, Peebles, Galashiels, Melrose, Kelso, Coldstream and Berwick-upon-Tweed, where it flows into the North Sea.

Selkirk F.C.

The same year an extraordinary request was received by the club, Melrose Football Club (later Melrose RFC), invited seven players to represent Selkirk in a new kind of game—seven-a-side rugby.

Solomon Golub

Solomon Golub (Latvia, 27 February 1887 - Bronx, New York, 18 June 1952) was a Russian-born, naturalized American, song composer.

Spuyten Duyvil

Spuyten Duyvil Bridge, a swing bridge that carries Amtrak's Empire Corridor line across the Spuyten Duyvil Creek between Manhattan and the Bronx, in New York City

Stanley Moskowitz

Moskowitz was born in the Bronx and graduated from Alfred University.

Theatre Row Hollywood

Theatre Row Hollywood is a popular name for an area of Hollywood, California bounded roughly by La Brea and El Centro Ave and Lexington and Melrose avenues, consisting of approximately 15 theatres.

Tony Sunshine

Tony Sunshine (born April 23, 1977 as Antonio Cruz in the Bronx, New York) is an American R&B singer of Puerto Rican descent, famous for singing on a large amount of Terror Squad's songs.

Winley Records

Death Mix was a vinyl pressing of a third- or fourth- hand cassette tape copy of a bootleg recording of a Bambaataa Zulu Nation night at James Monroe High School in the Bronx in 1980.


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