Jennie Jerome Playground

Jerome Av bet. E 174 St and the Cross Bronx Exwy Entrance Ramp

Bronx

This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.

This playground is named to honor Jennie Jerome (1854-1921), best known as the mother of Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), the great Prime Minister of England who helped lead the Allied Forces to victory in World War II. Jennie Jerome, and the daughter of Leonard Jerome (1817-1891), a wealthy New York financier, patron of the arts, and sportsman, was also a prominent member of English society in her own right.