Talk:The Bronx
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I propose deleting the inclusion of Joseph P. Day in the "See also" list. He seems like too obscure a figure to include. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CoffeeBeans9 (talk • contribs) 18:47, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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It's quite bizarre that the area numbers only have 2 significant figures, while the population density figures have 6. Choose to round both or neither. Kk.urban (talk) 21:59, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
In the section "In popular culture" -> "Literature" -> "Poetry", Ogden Nash's poetic apology to the dean of Bronx Community College is described as a "prose poem", and I can't quite figure out why.
Its presentation is standard for poetry. The last six lines rhyme, and, as is not always true for Nash, they even scan, perfectly.
I guess I could have just put "Citation needed" after the "prose poem" categorization, but I thought I would be a bit more specific about my concern. What makes this a prose poem? Does any reputable external source describe it thus? I'm not a NYT subscriber so I can't check the referenced article to see if that is the source, but the description is so odd that I would be concerned even if it were written by the chairman of the English Department of Bronx Community College. ACW (talk) 00:31, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Even Mr. Nash had second thoughts about the Bronx, and eventually tried to make amends. In 1964, 33 years after his original four-word poem was published, Mr. Nash wrote a letter to the dean of Bronx Community College apologizing — sort of: