Embrace spring at the Bronx Zoo! Encounter over 10,000 animals from all around the world, and explore 265 acres of nature bursting with life. | Bronx Zoo

2.8K views · 3.5K reactions | Get up-close and personal with amazing animals and the experts who care for them on a Bronx Zoo Wild Encounter. | Bronx Zoo | Facebook

⚡ Opening Reception: 'Conzo: A Look Back at the Bronx, 1977-84' ⏰: March 22, 2024 | 6-9PM Starting at the age of 10, Joe Conzo Jr. began to carry his camera daily, photographing everything from school walkouts to the infamous fires ravaging the Bronx, to rap battles between the Cold Crush Brothers and other foundational Hip Hop groups. Forty-five years later, Joe’s images provide an unmatched and intimate document of the complex forces that created today’s Bronx. 📍: BDC Annex, 364 E. 151st St,

21K views · 783 reactions | @1977 South Bronx. How time flies. I'm turning 57 today and miss growing up in the Bronx. It feels like it was yesterday when this pic was taken. Your stay on this earth is short and the ending comes fast. I'm glad that I'm still here enjoying the best years of my life. Blessed. @everyone | dj_apaza | Facebook

The Bronx was a phenomenon long before the world knew it as the birthplace of hip hop. It was a place shaped by the constant flow of cultures from Puerto Rican, Jamaican, African American and Caribbean communities. This mixture created a unique environment where mambo rhythms lived next to soul, funk and early street sound systems. Mambo to hip hop was not a jump but a natural progression born from shared spaces, shared struggles and shared creativity. In the 1970s social and economic pressure p