“The Bronx? No thonx!”, wrote the poet Ogden Nash.
As a kid growing up in the Bronx I didn’t get it. I didn’t realize my borough had a bad rap, and I certainly wouldn’t have understood why. The Bronx was my home and I loved it. (See Parkchester, Celebrate Me Home)
I even went to college in the Bronx, but then grad school and marriage finally took me out. But altho I was living elsewhere, I spent four decades of my working life commuting back as a public educator in Bronx high schools.
And altho there may be some degree of rapport among all folks who discover they’re from the same hometown, I contend there’s a special bond among us Bronxites. We seem to share an unpretentiousness, a true grit, and of course that Bronx accent.
And one thing we all know – Ogden Nash was dead wrong!
– Dana Susan Lehrman
Geographically the Bronx is unique among the five boroughs. It is the only borough that’s actually connected to the continent of North America. Hence the moniker the continental borough!
Dan, thanx for the Bronx fact from my fave New York Greeter!