Such fear is just one of the many obstacles that police face in stemming a thriving drug trade in the central Bronx.

He was 73 and had lived in Crotona, in the central Bronx, since 1970.

The fourth new district would be in the central Bronx.

District 12 in the central Bronx had the poorest scores in both reading and in math.

In the central Bronx, a 27-year-old man stumbled into a firehouse after being shot from a passing Jeep, the police said.

But by then, the galvanized steel tower had already risen 260 feet above the central Bronx.

The south and central Bronx began to rapidly deteriorate in the 1960s.

"Even stuff in central Bronx that people wouldn't touch a few years ago is attracting buyers," he said.

The central Bronx was no longer linked to midtown, where the jobs were.

Nevertheless, some parts of the river, particularly in the central and northern Bronx, already conform to the plans.