page_title: South Bronx
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: South Bronx / History
caption_attribution_description: This building was built in 1909 and is located at 976 Simpson Street in the Bronx, New York. The building is where Tony Santiago lived the first 13 years of his life. It is conserved by the Bronx as historical because of its architectural features.
context_page_description: The South Bronx is an area of the New York City borough of the Bronx. As the name implies, the area comprises neighborhoods in the southern part of the Bronx, such as Concourse, Mott Haven, Melrose, and Port Morris. The South Bronx is known for its hip hop culture and graffiti.
context_section_description: The South Bronx was originally called the Manor of Morrisania, and later Morrisania.  It was the private domain of the powerful and aristocratic Morris family, which includes Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Gouverneur Morris, the penman of the United States Constitution. The Morris memorial is at St. Ann's Church of Morrisania. Morris' descendants own land in the South Bronx to this day.
  As the Morrises developed their landholdings, an influx of German and Irish immigrants populated the area.  Later, the Bronx was considered the "Jewish Borough," and at its peak in 1930 was 49% Jewish. Jews in the South Bronx numbered 364,000 or 57.1% of the total population in the area. The term was first coined in the 1940s by a group of social workers who identified the Bronx's first pocket of poverty, in the Port Morris section, the southernmost section of the Bronx.
caption: Building in the South Bronx built in 1909 and located on Simpson Street
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