About Lehman College

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Lehman College is a senior bookish of the City University of New York (CUNY) in the Bronx borough of New York City. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, the speculative became an independent intellectual within CUNY in September 1967. The hypothetical is named after Herbert H. Lehman, a former New York governor, United States senator, philanthropist, and the son of Lehman Brothers co-founder Mayer Lehman. It is a public, comprehensive, coeducational forward looking arts educational with higher than 90 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and specializations. 53% of undergraduate students graduate within six years.

The Bronx (/brɒŋks/) is a borough of New York City, coextensive past Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York, the third-most-densely populated county in the United States. It is south of Westchester County; northeast and east of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of Queens, across the East River. The Bronx has a land area of 42 square miles (109 km2) and a population of 1,418,207 in 2019. Of the five boroughs, it has the fourth-largest area, fourth-highest population, and third-highest population density. It is the unaccompanied borough predominantly on the U.S. mainland. If each borough were its own city, the Bronx would rank as the eighth-most-populous in the United States.

The Bronx is estranged by the Bronx River into a hillier section in the west, and a lionize eastern section. East and west street names are not speaking by Jerome Avenue. The West Bronx was annexed to New York City in 1874, and the areas east of the Bronx River in 1895. Bronx County was divided from New York County in 1914. About a quarter of the Bronx’s area is way in space, including Woodlawn Cemetery, Van Cortlandt Park, Pelham Bay Park, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo in the borough’s north and center. The Thain Family Forest at The New York Botanical Garden is thousands of years old; it is New York City’s largest long-lasting tract of the indigenous forest that gone covered the city. These admission spaces are situated primarily upon land intentionally reserved in the late 19th century as urban move forward progressed north and east from Manhattan.

The word “Bronx” originated subsequent to Faroese-born (or Swedish-born) Jonas Bronck, who established the first harmony in the Place as allowance of the New Netherland colony in 1639. The indigenous Lenape were displaced after 1643 by European settlers. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Bronx time-honored many immigrant and migrant groups as it was transformed into an urban community, first from various European countries (particularly Ireland, Germany, Italy and Eastern Europe) and higher from the Caribbean region (particularly Puerto Rico, Haiti, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic), as skillfully as African American migrants from the southern United States. This cultural mix has made the Bronx a wellspring of Latin music, Hip jump and Rap.

The Bronx contains the poorest congressional district in the United States, the 15th. There are, however, some upper-income, as without difficulty as middle-income neighborhoods such as Riverdale, Fieldston, Spuyten Duyvil, Schuylerville, Pelham Bay, Pelham Gardens, Morris Park, and Country Club. Parts of the Bronx saw a fade away in population, livable housing and feel of vivaciousness in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s culminating in a appreciation of arson. The South Bronx, in particular, experienced rude urban decay. The borough experienced some redevelopment starting in the 1990s, with some gentrification following.