The Bronx
— — the only borough on the mainland.
Not only on a wall.
“The Bronx is the one piece of New York City that doesn't sit on an island. It runs north from the Harlem River across a low ridge of parks and apartment blocks: the Grand Concourse, Yankee Stadium under its white lights, the long green of the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden, and the Italian food blocks of Arthur Avenue where the bread comes out of Madonia's at four in the afternoon. To the east, City Island sits in Long Island Sound like a small New England town that got loose.
The Bronx, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
The Bronx is the northernmost of New York City's five boroughs and the only one on the United States mainland, separated from Manhattan by the Harlem River and from Queens by the East River. Bronx County covers about 109 square kilometres and is home to roughly 1.4 million people. The borough takes its name from Jonas Bronck, a Swedish-born settler who farmed land here in the 1630s. The Grand Concourse, modelled in 1909 on the Champs-Élysées, runs north for nearly seven kilometres as the borough's main civic spine.
The Bronx Zoo, opened in 1899 and run by the Wildlife Conservation Society, covers about 107 hectares and holds more than 6,000 animals; it is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States. Across Fordham Road, the New York Botanical Garden spreads over 250 acres with the original Thain Family Forest, the only remaining old-growth woodland in New York City. Yankee Stadium, the current building opened in 2009, sits beside the 161st Street subway in the borough's south. Arthur Avenue's Italian markets and bakeries are the working centre of the food scene.
Hip-hop is generally dated to a back-to-school party DJ Kool Herc threw on 11 August 1973 in the recreation room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, on the west side of the borough. The block is recognised by the City of New York as the birthplace of hip-hop. Forty years on, the Universal Hip Hop Museum is being built at Bronx Point on the Harlem River waterfront, due to open in phases through the late 2020s. The Bronx Walk of Fame along the Grand Concourse marks borough-born figures from Al Pacino to Cardi B.