I just noticed a New York Times editorial referred to
my home county as “the Bronx.” Not The Bronx, just the Bronx. Lower case “t.”
The Bronx has been The Bronx as long I can remember.
I was born there in 1931. They were very strict in PS90, teaching us that the
name of our borough was The Bronx, capital T. When was the Bronx decapitalized?
The other New York City boroughs have no “the’s.” They’re
simply Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. But we were always The
Bronx. With a Capital T.
So if you refer The Bronx at all, please address it
properly, with a capital T.
It’s the least you can do.
