• Morrisania (/ˌmɒrɪˈseɪniə/ MORR-i-SAY-nee-ə) is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern Bronx, New York City, New York. Its boundaries are the Cross-Bronx...
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    also known as Crotona or East Morrisania, is a residential neighborhood geographically located in the southwest Bronx in New York City. Crotona Park...
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  • Morrisania were transferred to New York County, becoming the first area outside Manhattan to be annexed by the City of New York. Today's West Bronx was...
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    and Port Morris. In the early 1900s, the South Bronx was originally known as the Manor of Morrisania, as it was the manor of Lewis Morris. As the Morris...
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    The Morrisania station was a station on the New York Central Railroad's Harlem Line, serving the community of Morrisania in the Bronx, New York City....
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    Kidd Creole (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    sentenced to 16 years in prison for manslaughter. Glover was born in The Bronx, New York in 1960 as the third of five children to a working-class family...
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    Fat Joe (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    in the Forest Houses, a public housing project in the South Bronx neighborhood of Morrisania, Fat Joe began stealing at a young age to support his family...
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  • Scott La Rock (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    municipal employee. They moved from Queens, New York City, to the Bronx: first Morrisania and then Morris Heights. He excelled in both academics and sports...
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    Colin Powell (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    1937 to parents who immigrated from Jamaica. He was raised in the South Bronx and educated in the New York City public schools, earning a bachelor's degree...
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    Lewis Morris (category People from Morrisania, Bronx)
    American Founding Father, landowner, and developer from Morrisania, New York, presently part of Bronx County. He signed the U.S. Declaration of Independence...
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