The Andrew Freedman Home is a 100-room non-profit retirement community providing its residents with social and recreation services. It is owned and operated by the Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Council Inc.

Built in 1924, this handsome limestone building is the result of a bequest by millionaire Andrew Freedman, who died in 1915 with no survivors. Freedman built his fortune in real estate, subway development and the New York Giants baseball team. The result of this gift, the Freedman House is a beautiful facility inside and out with a card room, library and parlor among other facilities.

The Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Council Inc. was founded in 1973 by a small group of residents and leaders who were inspired to provide direct services to the most disadvantaged --- the elderly and disabled. Today, the agency supports and empowers residents of all ages through the provision of affordable housing, economic and workforce development, community organizing, as well as comprehensive services for children, youth, families and older adults.

We have created this “venue” to list events happening simultaneously in different neighborhoods within the Bronx. The address and phone number given are that of the Borough President.

The only borough that is not an island (it is situated mostly on the mainland), it is home to 1.4 million people.

The Indians had different names for The Bronx, including “Rananchqua” and “Keskeskeck”. Europeans settles the area in 1639. One of the leading residents was a Swede named Jonas Bronck, who established a farm. Settlers would later refer to the area as “Bronck’s Land” which, over time, became “The Bronx”.

The Bronx Museum Of The Arts (BxMA) was founded in 1971 by a group of local residents to bring the visual arts to the Bronx. It has remained the only fine art museum in the Bronx.

BxMA’s permanent collection is unique in its focus on contemporary art by artists of African, Asian, and Latin American descent. Initiated in 1986, BxMA's collection policy demonstrates an ongoing commitment to exhibit, preserve, and document the work of artists not typically represented within more traditional museum collections. In 2000 it was expanded to include artists who have live(d) and/or work(ed) in the Bronx and for whom the Bronx has been critical to their artistic development. The collection is composed of more than 800 contemporary works of art in all media, conveying a broad range of modern and contemporary art practices.

In its first decade, it was housed in the public rotunda of the Bronx County Courthouse located on Grand Concourse and 161st Street. In 1982, it moved five blocks north on the Concourse to 165th street into a former synagogue purchased and donated by the City of New York.

As the flagship of the largest network of metropolitan zoos in the country, the Bronx Zoo is the heart of the Wildlife Conservation Society and their work to save wildlife and wild places around the globe.

With award-winning, cutting-edge exhibits featuring over 4,000 animals, there is no other zoo in the world that offers the diversity, superb viewing, and world-renowned expertise that assures a rewarding experience and the knowledge that visitors can make a difference in the world around them.

Whether you're nose-to-nose with Western lowland gorillas in our famous Congo Gorilla Forest , spotting snow leopards in our naturalistic Himalayan Highlands Habitat, or experiencing almost an acre of an indoor Asian rain forest, you're always within roaring distance of the world's most amazing wildlife. In the end, you'll know that your admission fees went to a conservation organization that has more expert researchers in the field than any other.

Starting in 2009, the legendary New York Yankess have this new home replacing the previous Yankee Stadium, built in 1923.

The new stadium's design consists of two separate structures. The Indiana limestone exterior is a wall circling the perimeter resembling the pre-renovation exterior of the original Yankee Stadium. The interior is a modern ballpark, with increased amenities, and features a replica of the copper frieze that lined the inner wall of Yankee Stadium's upper deck until 1973.

Between the perimeter and the stadium is a "great hall" with more than 1,000,000 square feet of retail space.

Outside is Monument Park, which features the Yankees' retired numbers, five freestanding monuments and a few dozen plaques dedicated to some of the Yankees' players and managers.

One of the premier botanical gardens in the United States, the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is home to some of the world's leading plant laboratories.

Founded in 1891 and constructed on part of the grounds of the Belmont Estate (former home of tobacco magnate Pierre Lorillard), the NYBG is one of the world’s great collections of plants, the region’s leading educational center for gardening and horticulture, and an international center for plant research. It is alive with opportunities for discovery, from an "ecotour" of the world in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory to an innovative indoor/outdoor science museum for kids to 50 exquisite gardens and plant collections, all on a 250-acre National Historic Landmark site in New York City’s Bronx borough.

Other highlights include an 1890s-vintage, wrought-iron framed, "crystal-palace style" greenhouse; the Peggy Rockefeller memorial rose garden; a Japanese rock garden; a conifer collection; extensive research facilities including a propagation center, 50,000-volume library, and an herbarium archive of over seven million botanical specimens dating back more than three centuries.

Located in the Longwood neighborhood of the Bronx, Saint Vincent de Paul Residence is a skilled nursing facility that reflects the culture of its surrounding community through its bilingual staff, ethnic food and recreational events.

It is named in honor of Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660), a Roman Catholic priest from France who was dedicated to serving the poor,

The six-story Mediterranean style building is connected to a private garden that offers a pleasant setting for family visits. It offers a variety of services, from housing to rehabilitation programs and an adult day care.

Salsa Con Fuego is a Latino-theme restaurant and club inspired by a tradition that embraces the love of
family, food, music and social entertainment.

The very cool, sophisticated and impressive decor sets a stage for savoring traditional Latino cuisine, live entertainment, dancing, disc jockeys, state-of-the-arts video screens --- and even art exhibits.

The fourth largest park in New York City, the park was named for Stephanus Van Cortlandt (1643-1700), who was the first native-born mayor of New York, and the Van Cortlandt family, which was prominent in the area during the Dutch and English colonial periods.

The Van Cortlandt Golf Course, the nation's first public golf course, opened in 1895 and is located on the park grounds. The "Parade Ground" north of the museum is one of New York's principal cricket fields. A bicycling path runs through the woods between this lawn and the golf course, northward along Tibbets Brook and the former New York and Putnam Railroad line into Yonkers. Another runs east from the golf course's clubhouse to connect to the Mosholu Parkway bike path. The Old Croton Aqueduct Trailway begins in Van Cortlandt Park.

Also contained within the Park is the Van Cortlandt House Museum, the oldest building in the Bronx.

A nonprofit group called Friends of Van Cortlandt Park offers educational and stewardship programs in the park.

Wave Hill is a 28-acre public garden and cultural center in the Bronx overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades. Its mission is to celebrate the artistry and legacy of its gardens and landscapes, to preserve its magnificent views, and to explore human connections to the natural world through programs in horticulture, education and the arts.

Wave Hill House was built as a country home in 1843 by jurist William Lewis Morris. In 1903, George W. Perkins, a partner of J.P. Morgan, purchased Wave Hill House. Perkins devoted much of his extraordinary energy to planning the grounds so as to enhance the property's magnificent vistas. To the garden and greenhouses, Perkins added greenhouses, a swimming pool, terraces and the recreational facility that we now call the Ecology Building. The land was graded and contoured, rare trees and shrubs were planted on the broad lawns, and gardens were created to blend harmoniously with the natural beauty of the Hudson River highlands.

Throughout its longs and rich history, Wave Hill has welcomed pioneering natural scientist Thomas Henry Huxley, President Theodore Roosevelt, author Mark Twain and conductor Arturo Toscanini among others.

In addition to Wave Hill House, the facilities include the Perkins Visitor Center, Wave Hill House, Glyndor Gallery, the Great Lawn and the Flower Garden.