The Story of the 

 Borough of The Bronx 



CHAPTER I 



THE POLITICAL FORMATION OF THE BOROUGH, AND ITS 

 TOPOGRAPHY 



THE city of New York is divided for administrative 

 purposes into five boroughs : Manhattan, the original 

 city of New York upon the island of Manhattan; 

 Brooklyn, the old city of that name in the county of Kings; 

 Queens, in the county of the same name, adjoining Brooklyn; 

 Richmond, or Staten Island; The Bronx, the Borough lying 

 north of the Harlem River. 



November i, 1683, the county of Westchester was formed. 

 Its western boundary was the Hudson River; its northern, 

 Dutchess (now Putnam) County ; its eastern, the Connecticut 

 Colony and Long Island Sound; its southern, the East and 

 Harlem rivers and Spuyten Duyvil Creek. The Borough 

 of The Bronx was included within the county of Westchester 

 until 1874 f° r the western part of the Borough, and until 

 1 895 for the eastern part. Its history is until these dates that 



