Some mostly out-of-date links: My own VAN NEST page. Where I was born, and where my Dad grew up, in the middle of the borough.
My own THROGS NECK page. Where my Mom grew up, in the Southeast part of The Bronx.
The Bronx County Historical Society, with its list of some Notable Bronxites. I'm saddened not to be on here. :-)
Fun with big nasty ramps from four different interstates and a parkway: The Bruckner Interchange is a wonder of modern roadway engineering. Or something. From N.W. Perry's Empire State Roads.
Rob Friedman's Freedomland Page, about the amusement park that stood where Co-Op City is now. Speaking of Co-Op City, David Chesler has a nice page about the history of that complex, including a nifty scan of a 1945 map of the northeast Bronx.
Early maps of the City, of course, are as fascinating for what they don't show as what they show. Nancy E. Lutz has a site with many interesting older maps of New York. The two that fascinated me most, of course, were of my old homeland in 1903. This map features the southeast Bronx, from West Farms through Van Nest and Westchester Square out to Fort Schuyler. This one here shows the northeast Bronx, including Pelham Parkway and Pelham Bay Park up to the city line. Fun stuff, though you might want to download them to your hard drive and rotate them with your favorite graphics editor...
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society has a neat page called Before the 5-borough City, including drawn maps of the old town boundaries within the four outer boroughs.
Other maps of New York State can be found through SUNY-Stony Brook.
The Original Hip Hop Lyrics Archive. Placed here, because, as Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz so eloquently rapped in 1998's Deja Vu (Uptown Baby), "If it wasn't for the Bronx, this rap sh*t prob'ly never would be going on. So tell me, where you from?"
If you're coming from the link on top of the Boring Homepage, you're likely asking, "The official WHAT of the WHO?" Yes, the Boring Homepage is the "Official Homepage of the Bronx Century." Why? Why not? (Actually, it stems from a conversation a friend and I had at the, um, turn of the century. We talked about how the last one was sometimes termed the "American Century." I demanded that the new century be the "Bronx Century." Naturally, being crazy, I said I was gonna put that on my web page. And so...) (The Homepage also claims to be the Official Homepage of the Van Nest Knights. Only sorta -- they're my fantasy baseball teams. Their results won't be found here unless they win me money.)