It’s not everyday a bicycle ride through the South Bronx feels like you’ve entered a western movie location, but Brook Park offers just that illusion.
Indigenous Lenape (Delaware) Indians were pushed out of the South Bronx beginning about 1643 by settlers from Holland and England, Ireland, Germany and Italy.
Beginning in the 1940’s right after World War 2, those Europeans were displaced by an even larger influx of African and Hispanic Americans, largely from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
Actually, tipi’s are associated with Plains Indians, the Lenape tribe lived in bark and moss lodges built from local flora.
But that’s a technicality.
I shouldn’t be calling them Indians in the first place.
Mumbai is not in Mott Haven.
And the Bronx ain’t Bangalore.
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