Last week I wrote a column on Jonas Bronck, his relationship to our Pieter Bronck and brief time in New Amsterdam. Today, as a follow-up to that column, I am pleased to include in this space an ...

Through the 1940s, 50s and 60s visitors to Bronck Museum were told that Jonas Bronck was father to Pieter the builder of the first dwelling on this site. By the 1970’s nagging questions about the ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Before the Bronx was nicknamed the Boogie Down, it was named after a European settler who, centuries ago, bought some borough land for two guns, two shirts, and a barrel of cider, ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nearly four centuries after Jonas Bronck set foot in America, his birthplace in southern Sweden is finally recognizing its historical link to the New York borough that bears his name.