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The northernmost of New York City's five boroughs, and the only one attached to the United States mainland, the Bronx is named after Jonas Bronck, a Scandinavian settler who farmed the area in the 1600s. Coextensive with Bronx County, it is home to roughly 1.4 million people across neighbourhoods that range from dense apartment blocks to the waterfront enclaves of the east and the leafy estates of Riverdale in the northwest. Its best-known attractions sit close together in the central Bronx: th...