Jacobo Field
What was here before? This ballfield lies in the West Farms area of East Tremont. Prominent landowners and businesspeople T...

Jennie Jerome Playground
This playground is named to honor Jennie Jerome (1854-1921), best known as the mother of Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), th...

Jerome Park
Jerome Park is located next to the Jerome Park Reservoir and between the Bronx High School of Science and Lehman College, two ...

Jerome Playground - Beavers in New York City
In the early 17th century, the Dutch East India Company sent navigator Henry Hudson westward to discover the Northwest Passage...

Jerome Playground South
What was here before?This playground is situated in what was once known as Quinnahung, or Planting Neck, by the Weckquaesgeek ...

John Muir Trail
By hiking a nature trail, you honor the spirit of John Muir. This great Scottish-American preservationist can be considered th...

John Philip Sousa Playground
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), also known as the "March King," enjoyed a lengthy career as a composer, bandmaster, and mu...

John R. Brown Triangle
This triangle honors Major General John R. Brown (1908-1992), a Massachusetts native who moved to the Bronx and served in the ...

Joseph Rodman Drake Park
The property of Joseph Rodman Drake Park in the Hunts Point area of the Bronx is located in what was once a Weckquaesgeek Indi...

Joseph Yancey Track and Field
In 1936, Joseph James Yancey, Jr. (1910-1991) co-founded the New York Pioneer Track and Field Club. Its interracial track team...

Joyce Kilmer Park
This park, bounded by the Grand Concourse, Walton Avenue, 164th and 161st Streets, is named after Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918), po...

Julio Carballo Ballfields
What was here before? The Weckquaesgeek lived in the vicinity of the Bronx River. They called the river Aquehung, which mea...