IGC NYC Community Guide
Explore the Bronx
Books to read. Places to visit. A borough worth knowing.
Reading List
Books about the Bronx.
The Bronx has a rich, complex story — told through jazz clubs and hip hop parks, fires and rebuilding, immigrants and lifelong families. These books help tell that story.
- Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
- Before the Fires: An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s
- The Bronx Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide
- Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
- Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History
- Yankees by the Numbers: A Complete Team History of the Bronx Bombers by Uniform Number
- Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop
- The Birth of the Bronx, 1609–1900
- The City of Hip-Hop: New York City, The Bronx, and a Peace Meeting
- Bronx Accent: A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough
- Bibliotherapy in the Bronx
Places to Visit
The Bronx is worth exploring.
Parks, gardens, history, food, and culture — all within one borough. Here are some of our favorite places to visit near us.