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Bronx

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About Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York. The borough shares a land border with Westchester County, New York to its north; to its south and west, the New York City borough of Manhattan lies across the Harlem River; and to its south and east is the borough of Queens, across the East River. The Bronx, the only New York City borough located primarily on the U.S. mainland, has a land area of 42 square miles (109 km2) and a population of 1,472,654 at the 2020 census. It has the fourth-largest area, fourth-highest population, and third-highest population density of the boroughs.

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The New York Police have a casting director for their lineups. Whenever the police in the Bronx need to do a lineup, they say "we need five light-skinned Hispanic men" and he'll say "okay, I know just the people."

from No Such Thing As A Criminal In A Fabulous Hat, 2018-04-27 at 00:30:39 · read transcript

Other times Bronx came up

  1. People have been, scientists have been making some wild assertions lately about, there was a study done at the University of Edinburgh, I think, with the Bronx. zoo which compared the personalities of house cats to the personalities of big cats and they tested them on extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness and I don't know how they test, they questionnaires were sent out or whatever and they found.

    No Such Thing As A Six-Tier Japanese Human Pyramid, 2016-03-25 · listen

  2. Was very discouraged, it was seen as being far too racy, and at least one girl blamed her haircut on what they called Jack the Clipper, as in someone, someone just leaned out and chopped my hair, so a girl in the Bronx said that a highwayman had grabbed her and cut her hair off.

    9: No Such Thing As A Word For 'Silent Fart', 2014-05-02 · listen

  3. Bob Kane being the person who's taken all the credit for it, Bill Finger sort of in the background. No one really knows much about him, but he lost all the credit. They both went to the same high school in the Bronx in New York, which was called DeWitt Clinton High School. Another student who went to that school was Stan Lee, the creator of Spider-Man and so on.

    No Such Thing As Batman and Robinette, 2021-02-26 · listen

  4. Maybe there's a spore or something which could wipe out a native plant species. Wow, okay. They're just being ultra careful, but I just think that's the funniest day. It's a barren desert where Uluru is. Or if they've, because they don't like non-native species coming in. Do they say, what if there's like a fox on the underside of the Bronx? No one's seen. That's true. Just clinking. You're going to be careful of these kind of things.

    No Such Thing As The Hoo-Hah Monologues, 2015-06-26 · listen

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