• Morrisania (/ˌmɒrɪˈseɪniə/ MORR-i-SAY-nee-ə) is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern Bronx, New York City, New York. Its boundaries are the Cross-Bronx...
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    also known as Crotona or East Morrisania, is a residential neighborhood geographically located in the southwest Bronx in New York City. Crotona Park...
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  • Morrisania were transferred to New York County, becoming the first area outside Manhattan to be annexed by the City of New York. Today's West Bronx was...
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    and Port Morris. In the early 1900s, the South Bronx was originally known as the Manor of Morrisania, as it was the manor of Lewis Morris. As the Morris...
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    Lewis Morris (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    American Founding Father, landowner, and developer from Morrisania, New York, presently part of Bronx County. He signed the U.S. Declaration of Independence...
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  • Scott La Rock (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    municipal employee. They moved from Queens, New York City, to the Bronx: first Morrisania and then Morris Heights. He excelled in both academics and sports...
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    Fat Joe (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    in the Forest Houses, a public housing project in the South Bronx neighborhood of Morrisania, Fat Joe began stealing at a young age to support his family...
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    Morrisania Air Rights is a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing project in Melrose and Morrisania, Bronx, consisting of three buildings...
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    Kidd Creole (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    sentenced to 16 years in prison for manslaughter. Glover was born in The Bronx, New York in 1960 as the third of five children to a working-class family...
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    Colin Powell (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    1937 to parents who immigrated from Jamaica. He was raised in the South Bronx and educated in the New York City public schools, earning a bachelor's degree...
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    Frederick Trump (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    lived at 1006 Westchester Avenue in the German-speaking Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx. Their daughter Elizabeth was born on April 30, 1904. In...
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    Romeo Santos (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    one of the best-selling Latin artists. Santos was born and raised in The Bronx, New York City on July 21, 1981, to a Dominican father and a Puerto Rican...
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  • Big Pun (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    Emerging from the underground hip hop scene in the Bronx, he came to prominence upon discovery by fellow Bronx rapper Fat Joe, and thereafter guest appeared...
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    Iran Barkley (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    so he can become self-supporting. Barkley resides in the Morrisania area of the South Bronx. Barkley enjoys teaching boxing skills to young amateurs....
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    Herman Ridder Junior High School (category Morrisania, Bronx)
    (also known as Public School 98) is a middle school in the Morrisania section of the Bronx, part of the New York City Department of Education. Constructed...
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    the Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City. When using this article, note that names of many (but not all) neighborhoods in the Bronx are popular...
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    Melle Mel (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    this thing done." On October 10, 2008, Mel appeared on Bronx-based culinary adventure show Bronx Flavor alongside host Baron Ambrosia. In the episode "Night...
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    consolidation of the Bronx into New York City proceeded in two stages. In 1873, the state legislature annexed Kingsbridge, West Farms, and Morrisania to New York...
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    change from time to time. New York City is split up into five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Each borough has the same...
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    Avenue between East 167th Street and East 168th Street in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. St. Augustine's merged with Our Lady of Victory...
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  • Everett, New York Assemblyman circa 1903 Schnorrer Morrisania, Bronx Twomey, Bill (2002). South Bronx. Arcadia Publishing. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-7385-1020-0...
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    Morrisania Hospital was a four-structure full service hospital with an 11-story main building that was built in 1926 and closed in 1976. Morrisania Hospital...
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    The Morrisania station was a station on the New York Central Railroad's Harlem Line, serving the community of Morrisania in the Bronx, New York City....
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    known as St. Ann's Church of Morrisania, is a historic Episcopal church in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the South Bronx in New York City. Gouverneur...
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    Grandmaster Flash (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    he was awarded an honorary doctorate in music from Lehman College in the Bronx, NY. On August 4, Grandmaster was issued a proclamation from the city of...
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    KRS-One (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    Over Nearly Everyone") and Teacha, is an American rapper from the South Bronx. He rose to prominence as part of the hip hop group Boogie Down Productions...
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    is a neighborhood located in the southeast section of the borough of the Bronx in New York City. Its boundaries are Waterbury Avenue and Westchester Avenue...
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    US Post Office-Morrisania -- originally Station "T" -- is a historic post office building located at Morrisania in The Bronx, New York, United States...
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    Gouverneur Morris (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    the family estate, Morrisania, on the north side of the Harlem River, which was then in Westchester County but is now part of the Bronx. Morris, a gifted...
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    Plot, Lots 214–221.[citation needed] Bensonia Cemetery, also known as "Morrisania Cemetery", was originally a Native American burial ground. The graves...
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