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Interested in all things music? The Bronx Music Heritage Center celebrates the borough’s ties to the arts while providing free cultural programs for the community. Start your stroll with the Bronx Documentary Center, a non-profit gallery and space that uses community-based documentary practice and education to explore vital issues, stimulate critical thought, and drive social change. Unlike other boroughs that begin with ‘B,’ the South Bronx has retained a great deal of its culture-despite rapid rates of gentrification and new residential developments-and we’ve compiled the best cultural institutions to immerse yourself in its history. Stroll the neighborhood while learning about its culture Here’s everything you need to know about exploring the South Bronx.
It’s time to head uptown so make sure you’ve got your masks and vaccination cards ready. From blocks lined with murals like a tribute to hometown hero and rapper, Big Pun, to countless Latinx-owned businesses or open mics and talent showcases fostering future creatives, the area is the epicenter to some of the city’s best Latinx culture, and the signature greeting is a loud and welcoming “YERRRR!” Today, along with the rest of the borough’s thriving Latinx population (currently 54.8 percent), the South Bronx is home to large Puerto Rican and Dominican enclaves, in addition to a growing Mexican community. Through the 1970s and 1980s, the foundations of both hip-hop and graffiti art were built by DJs, and the neighborhood began to blossom as a cultural hub. In the early 1900s, the South Bronx was mostly comprised of German and Irish immigrants and became known as the “Jewish borough.” This soon changed after World War II with rising rents, and by the end of the 1950s, the South Bronx was two-thirds Black or Latinx. The history of the neighborhood is eclectic. Four neighborhoods make up the southernmost part of the borough-Concourse, Melrose, Mott Haven, and Port Morris-and each offers an abundance of largely undiscovered restaurants, cultural institutions, hotels, and shops. Conveniently located along the 4, 5, and 6 lines, the South Bronx is currently at a cultural crossroads, where old hip-hop culture blends with a new creative and entrepreneurial spirit.
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