Morris Park (New York City, New York)

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Morris Park is a neighborhood in the Bronx borough of New York City. The neighborhood is part of Community Board 11 in the East Bronx. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are: Pelham Parkway to the north, the Amtrak Northeast Corridor tracks to the east and south, and Bronxdale-Muliner Avenues to the west. It borders the neighborhoods of Van Nest to its southwest and Indian Village (a sub-neighborhood of Morris Park) to its northeast.

Williamsbridge Road and Morris Park Avenue are the primary thoroughfares through Morris Park. The local subway is the IRT Dyre Avenue Line, operating along Esplanade. Zip codes include 10461 and 10462. The area is patrolled by the 49th Precinct located at 2121 Eastchester Road.

Morris Park is a residential, predominantly Italian-American, Irish, and Eastern-European neighborhood. It is the site of both Jacobi Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and is known among New Yorkers for its Italian restaurants and bakeries. Made up of single family and two family homes, and low rise apt. buildings, it remains a tight knit community. It was named after John Albert Morris (1836-1895), the American businessman widely known as the "Lottery King" and a prominent figure in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing, his father Francis Morris was also a prominent horse owner. John Morris conceived and built the Morris Park Racecourse, which existed from 1889 until 1910, and dominated the landscape of this area of the Bronx. The facility hosted the Belmont Stakes from 1890-1904, and the Preakness Stakes in 1890. Horseracing moved to Belmont Park after 1904, but the facilities were used for automobile racing and air shows thru 1909. After a major fire in 1910, the property was divided into lots beginning in 1913 and the current neighborhood began to develop.