I came from the Bronx.

like the South Bronx did?

And Bronx literature, it's all about Bronx writers and their stories.

Here it's faceted glass in the Bronx.

We run a project called the Bronx Environmental

Donaldson, multiple rape. Has a record in the Bronx.

You wanna work uptown? South Bronx, Harlem?

And when the Bronx Borough President shows up and the State Senator comes to our class, believe you me, the Bronx can change attitudes now.

And behold the glory and bounty that is Bronx County.

Amazed people. The glory and bounty that is Bronx County.

My family moved to the Bronx when I was ten.

Wouldn't you know that the Bronx Bombers'd be the bad guys?

I'm Steve Ritz, this is Green Bronx Machine.

Neither the destruction of the Ninth Ward nor the South Bronx was inevitable.

One out of four South Bronx children has asthma.

So I call this from South Bronx to Southampton.

And that snake he she comes directly from Bronx.

Now, somewhere over the rainbow, my friends, is the South Bronx of America.

I grew up in New York City, between Harlem and the Bronx.

The South Bronx, which lies in between, did not stand a chance.

I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, Harlem.

The South Bronx Greenway was also just a drawing on the stage back in 2006.

And I must say, I spent time in the Bronx working with these kids.

I wear all this Italian shit because underneath, I still feel like the Bronx.

The common perception was that only pimps and pushers and prostitutes were from the South Bronx.

And my kids in the South Bronx were repped in the first international green roof conference.

And that is the youngest nationally certified workforce in America with our Bronx Borough President.

I was born and raised in the Bronx, New York City, but my parents are Mexican.

Big fat black mamas in the Bronx used to come and say, Hey girl, that's it!

And then you notice that those seeds become farms across the Bronx that look like this.

And thank God Trinity Wall Street noticed, because they gave us the birth of Green Bronx Machine.

Interestingly, Stanley Milgram and I were in the same high school class in James Monroe in the Bronx, 1954.

OK. Katrina. Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common.

When the singer appeared on stage, the audience gave him the Bronx cheer, because he dumped his wife for another woman.

And I knew it would grow to become the proud beginnings of the community led revitalization of the new South Bronx.

This is Stanley Milgram, little Jewish kid from the Bronx, and he asked the question, Could the Holocaust happen here, now?

And when we realized that we were growing for food justice in the South Bronx, so did the international community.

Mongo, Ghoulie, Powderbox, a Mimi in Miami, a Split Knish in Philadelphia ... (Laughter) and a Schmende in the Bronx.

Poor, Latino, surrounded by runaway gun violence and drug trafficking a reputation not unlike that of the South Bronx.

That small park I told you about earlier was the first stage of building a Greenway movement in the South Bronx.

And once this path is constructed, it'll connect the South Bronx with more than 400 acres of Randall's Island Park.

Black field, brown field, toxic waste field, battlefield we're proving in the Bronx that you can grow anywhere, on cement.

I grew up as a poor kid in the South Bronx ghetto, a Sicilian family everyone lived in the past and present.

My parents are from Argentina, and I've grown up in Manhattan my whole life and go to school in the Bronx.

At this time we're living in the Bronx, and in the building next to where I lived there was a guy named Johnny.