![]() The parks, the pick-up games, the tough and tender mothers, the politics, the gangs, the food-for people who grew up in the Bronx, childhood recollections are fresh. Crew's CEO Millard (Mickey) Drexler found his ambition, where Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dava Sobel fell in love with science early on and where music-making inspired hip hop's Grandmaster Melle Mel to change the world of music forever. ![]() ![]() The Bronx is where Michael Kay, the New York Yankees' play-by-play broadcaster, first experienced baseball, where J. ![]() The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda's Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the place that bred the influencers in just about every field of endeavor today. Made me wish I had been born in the Bronx'-Barbara Walters A touching and provocative collection of memories that evoke the history of one of America's most influential boroughs-the Bronx-through some of its many success stories. "'A down-to-earth, inspiring book about the American promise fulfilled'-President Bill Clinton 'Fascinating. ![]()
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