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Infobox zoozoo name BronxZoo logo BronxZoo logo.png logo width 250px logo caption BronxZoo logo image Stavenn BronxZoo 00.jpg image caption Asia Gate Entrance date opened November 8, 1899 ref name zoo history location 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx Park , The BronxBronx , New York , 10460, United ... of Monkeys, World of Reptiles, Zoo Center website http www.bronxzoo.com The BronxZoo is located in the Bronx borough of New York City , within Bronx Park . It is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United ... the Bronx River flows. The BronxZoo is part of an integrated system of four zoos and one aquarium managed ... AZA . History Fordham University owned most of the land which became the BronxZoo and New ... Hornaday William T. Hornaday feeding a greater kudu in 1920 The zoo originally called the Bronx Zoological ... 2009a ref File Entrance to BronxZoo 2008.jpg thumb A side entrance to the BronxZoo In November 2006, the Zoo opened up brand new eco friendly restrooms outside the Bronx River Gate. According to the Clivus .... ref name fordham Exhibits and attractions As of 2010, the BronxZoo is home to more than 4,000 animals ... at the BronxZoo, such as World of Birds and World of Reptiles, are arranged by taxonomy ... Outdoor exhibits File BronxZoo 102.JPG thumb right Nyalas, Marabou storks The African Plains ... 2010 and reside in the African Plains exhibit. The BronxZoo in partnership with the NY Daily ... for the 2 females and 1 male were Nala, Adamma, and Shani. ref David Rooney BronxZoo s New Lion Cubs Are Impossibly Cute . New York Times, 2010. ref File BronxZoo 044.JPG thumb left Congo gorillas ... waterfowl that also live in this area. ref name zoo baboons File BronxZoo 093.JPG thumb right Giraffes ... cristatus at the BronxZoo 001.jpg thumb right Silvery Lutung s Trachypithecus cristatus ... Image BronxZoo 033.JPG thumb left Monkeys grooming each other Butterfly Garden is an indoor butterfly ... ll find striking headdresses, elegant plumes, and plenty of preening. Conservation The BronxZoo made ... more details
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infobox television show name The BronxZoo image caption format Drama runtime 60 min creator starring Edward Asner br Kathleen Beller br Kathryn Harrold br Jerry Levine br Nicholas Pryor br Mykelti Williamson br David Wilson country USA executive producer network NBC opentheme camera first aired March 19, 1987 last aired June 29, 1988 num episodes 21 1 unaired num seasons 2 website The BronxZoo is a 1987 NBC drama series directed by Allan Arkush and Paul Lynch director Paul Lynch . It lasted two seasons before cancellation. Plot Benjamin Harris High School is set in the impoverished, unruly inner city Bronx . Principal Joe Danzig Edward Asner does his best to maintain optimism, while dealing with the lack of motivation and direction of his staff. Cast class wikitable bgcolor CCCCCC Actor Role Edward Asner Principal Joe Danzig Kathleen Beller Mary Caitlin Callahan Jerry Levine Matthew Littman Nicholas Pryor Jack Feldspar Mykelti Williamson Gus Butterfield David Wilson Harry Barnes Kathryn Harrold Sara Newhouse External links imdb title id 0092326 title The BronxZoo tv.com 2120 The BronxZoo DEFAULTSORT BronxZoo, The Category NBC network shows Category American drama television series Category Black television drama series Category High school television series Category Television series by CBS Paramount Television Category Television shows set in New York City US drama tv prog stub ... more details
Summary Information Description One of the entrances to the BronxZoo. Note the animals at the top of the gate. Source I User Anthony22 Anthony22 User talk Anthony22 talk created this work entirely by myself. Date 20 34, 29 December 2011 UTC Author User Anthony22 Anthony22 User talk Anthony22 talk other versions Licensing self cc by sa 3.0 GFDL migration redundant ... more details
Infobox single Name At the Zoo Cover AtTheZoo.png Artist Simon and Garfunkel from Album Bookends Released March 1967 Format 7 single Recorded January 1967 Genre Folk rock Length 2 21 Label Columbia Records Columbia Writer Paul Simon Producer Simon and Garfunkel br Roy Halee Last single A Hazy Shade of Winter br 1966 This single At the Zoo br 1967 Next single Fakin It song Fakin It br 1967 At the Zoo was one of Simon and Garfunkel Simon s and Garfunkel s single releases in 1967 in music 1967 . The song is one of Paul Simon s many tributes to his hometown of New York City . The narrative tells the story of a trip to the Central Park Zoo when the singer reaches the zoo, he anthropomorphism anthropomorphizes the animals in various amusing ways, with a resulting cynical eye towards human life. Such statements as elephants are kindly, but they re dumb, antelopes are missionaries and pigeons plot in secrecy reflect more about man than they do about the menagerie. The song was licensed in advertisements for the BronxZoo and the San Francisco Zoo in the late 1970s. Releases At the Zoo was first released as a single in 1967, reaching 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 . After that, it was released on the following albums Bookends 1968 The Best of Simon and Garfunkel 1999 Tales from New York The Very Best of Simon & Garfunkel 2000 The song was also performed live by Simon and Garfunkel in the Old Friends Live on Stage album in 2004, as part of a medley with Baby Driver . An alternate version with almost completely different lyrics is available on the bootleg recording bootleg The Alternate Bookends ... 7, 2009 ref These lyrics have nothing to do with a zoo, but rather speak of a musician s girlfriend ... version. The Book In 1991, Paul Simon released a children s book titled At the Zoo ISBN 0 385 41771 ... books Category 1967 singles Category Songs written by Paul Simon 1960s song stub it At the Zoo nn At the Zoo ... more details
Zoo , George Rabb of Brookfield Zoo , and William Conway of the BronxZoo Wildlife Conservation Society .... In September 1906, William Hornaday, director of the BronxZoo in New York&mdash with the agreement ...other uses File San Diego Zoo entrance elephant.jpg thumb right 280px The entrance of the San Diego Zoo ... Exhibit at the Dallas Zoo , Texas, October 2011 A zoological garden , zoological park , menagerie , or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which ... zoo was first used of the London Zoological Gardens , which opened for scientific study in 1828 ... location Brisbane isbn 9780980842517 ref Etymology London Zoo , which opened in 1828, first ... zoo first appeared in print in the UK around 1847, when it was used for the Bristol Zoo Clifton Zoo , but it was not until some twenty years later that the shortened form became popular in the song Walking in the Zoo on Sunday by music hall artist Alfred Vance . ref name Blunt29 The term zoological park was used for more expansive facilities in Washington, D.C. , and the Bronx in New York, which ... a new name is a strategy used by some zoo professionals to distance their institutions from the stereotypical and nowadays criticized zoo concept of the 19th century. ref Maple 1995, p. 25. ref The term biopark was first coined and developed by the Smithsonian National Zoological Park National Zoo ... s First Zoo Hierakonpolis, Egypt, Archaeology Magazine , http www.archaeology.org 1001 topten egypt.html ..., and King Wen of Zhou kept a convert 1500 acre km2 adj on zoo called Ling Yu, or the Garden of Intelligence ... of Babylonia . ref name EBZoo Zoo, Encyclopaedia Britannia , 2008. ref By the 4th century ..., leopards, and camels. ref name Blunt15 Blunt, Wilfred. The Ark in the Park The Zoo in the Nineteenth ... The animals were moved to the London Zoo when it opened. Modern era see List of zoos Image Versailles ... The oldest existing zoo, the Tiergarten Sch nbrunn Vienna Zoo in Austria, evolved from the Imperial ... more details
, see The Zoo disambiguation . The Zoo is a one act comic opera , with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto .... First, a nobleman, who goes to the zoo to woo the girl who sells snacks there. He tries to impress ... The Zoo opened, Trial by Jury premiered at the Royalty Theatre , with a libretto by Sullivan s more ... principal ladies, but The Zoo does. McElroy demonstrated that the January advertisement definitely was not for Trial ... have suggested that The Zoo was mounted hastily to capitalize on the success of Trial . For instance ... he dashed off The Zoo , with a librettist whose identity it would be kinder not to reveal since ... this, McElroy speculates that Stephenson was already working on the libretto of The Zoo for the St ... by Jury on stage. But if it had been finally decided that The Zoo would never make a two act opera ... that the music of The Zoo , or at least part of it, was already in existence before Trial by Jury ... from a key change, it is the same tune that Sullivan would use for Carboy s aria in The Zoo , I ... from the St James , and the audience at The Zoo might reasonably be expected to know this. ref Rees 1969, p. iii ref The Zoo ran for three weeks until the end of Litton s season, then transferred ... ref suggests that it achieved a certain degree of success. There was a second production of The Zoo ... at the zoo, Thomas Brown. There it ran together with Offenbach s Les g orgiennes . ref Ainger ... begs to inform Mr. Cowper that the Zoo has not yet been published, nor will it until considerable ... November 1877, he wrote, They want to revive the Zoo at the Royal Strand Theatre Strand . Will you .... ref Jacobs, p. 92 ref It was once believed that Sullivan had re used the music of The Zoo in his later compositions. In 1927, Herbert Sullivan and Newman Flower wrote, The Zoo was a trifle composed ... of many misleading statements in Newman and Flower s book when the score of The Zoo was rediscovered. No re use of music from The Zoo has been identified. ref name DeOrsey See DeOrsey, Stan. http ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 File WSTM Free Culture NYU 0016.jpg thumb South end of Bronx Park Image Parks and Greenspace New York City Map Julius Schorzman.png right thumb 280px Bronx Park is number 3 on this map of parks and greenspace. Bronx Park , laid out Convert 718 acre along the Bronx River in the Bronx , New York City New York , is the home of the New York Botanical Garden and the BronxZoo . Bicycle paths go northwest, north and east, along Mosholu Parkway , Bronx River Parkway and Pelham Parkway respectively. The east end of Fordham Road is inside the park, at an interchange with the Pelham Parkway Pelham and Bronx River Parkway s, and divides the park roughly in half, with the Botanical Garden occupying most of the north half and the Zoo most of the south. The Bronx River Parkway runs north south near the eastern edge. The park is operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation . The park is bounded by Southern Boulevard Bronx , Webster Avenue , Burke Avenue Bronx , Bronx Park East , and 180th Street Bronx . History The land for Bronx Park was acquired with funds authorized by the 1884 New Parks Act . The original convert 640 acre km2 were acquired in 1888 1889. The northernmost convert 250 acre km2 were allocated in 1891 to the New York Botanical Society . Another convert 250 acre km2 was allocated in 1898 to the New York Zoological Society . An additional convert 66 acre m2 were acquired in 1906, at the southeast end of the park this area is now known as Ranaqua , and is where the Parks headquarters is located. External links http www.nycgovparks.org parks bronxpark New York City web site http www.nycgovparks.org sub your park historical signs hs historical sign.php?id 6341 Ranaqa web page Image Bronx monorail jeh.JPG thumb left Dam, with BronxZoo monorail in the background Commons category Coord 40 51 23 N 73 52 36 W display title type landmark region US NY Category Parks in the BronxBronx geo stub he nl Bronx Park ... more details
York White Plains Facts Fordham University is located just north of Belmont at Fordham Road. The BronxZoo is located east of Belmont in Bronx Park . The 1993 film A Bronx Tale was set in Belmont, though ...Location map USA Bronx lat 40.8552778 long 73.8863889 caption Location of Belmont in New York City Image Belmontbx.JPG thumb right 165px Belmont is a residential neighborhood geographically located in the west Bronx . The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community Board 6 . Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are Fordham Road to the north, Bronx Park to the east, East 183rd Street to the south, and the Third Avenue which formerly was served by the IRT Third Avenue Line to the west. These boundaries give the neighborhood a crescent like shape. Arthur Avenue is the primary thoroughfare through Belmont. Zip codes include 10458. The area is patrolled by the NYPD 48th Precinct located at 450 Cross Bronx Expressway in East Tremont, Bronx East Tremont . Demographics Belmont has a population over 15,000. For decades Belmont has been one of the poorest communities in America. Over half the population lives below the poverty line and receives public assistance AFDC, Home Relief ... Italians along East 187th Street near Arthur Avenue. Land use and terrain Image Bronx ... in the Bronx. Although the historical and commercial center of Little Italy is Arthur Avenue itself ..., Bronx Riverdale or West Farms Square East Tremont Avenue IRT White Plains Road Line West ... Eighth Avenue Line Inwood 207th St station via Fordham Road Pelham Parkway Bx17 to Port Morris, Bronx Port Morris via Prospect Av Bx19 to Riverbank State Park via Southern Blvd 149th St Bx22 to Bronx High School of Science or Castle Hill, Bronx Castle Hill via Castle Hill Av BL60 to White Plains, New ... on Fordham Road References reflist Bronx coord 40 51 22 N 73 53 07 W display title Category Neighborhoods in the Bronx ... more details
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