Lloyd Ultan

Lloyd Ultan (born 1938) is an American historian and author. A native of the borough of The Bronx in New York City, he was the Bronx borough historian from 1996 to 2023. He is a professor of history at Fairleigh Dickinson University's and a member of the adjunct faculty at Lehman College. Ultan received a B.A. in history from Hunter College in 1959 and an M.A. in history from Columbia University in 1960.

He has written several books, including The Beautiful Bronx (1920-1950), The Bronx in the Innocent Years: 1890-1925, and Bronx Accent. Ultan is renowned for his walking tours. His predecessor as the official Bronx Borough Historian was Dr. William A. Tieck, who served from 1980 to 1996.

Selected works

Legacy of the Revolution: The Valentine-Varian House (1983), popular general history Bronx Accent: A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough (2006), popular general history Blacks in the Colonial Bronx Era: A Documentary History (2010), popular general history The Bronx: The Ultimate Guide to New York City's Beautiful Borough (2015), popular general history The Northern Borough: A History Of The Bronx (2009), popular general history The Bronx in the frontier era: from the beginning to 1696 (1994) The Beautiful Bronx (1920–1950) (1979), heavily illustrated The Birth of the Bronx, 1609–1900 (2000), popular The Bronx in the innocent years, 1890–1925 (1985), popular The Bronx: It Was Only Yesterday, 1935–1965 (1992), heavily illustrated popular history "History of the Bronx River," Paper presented to the Bronx River Alliance, November 5, 2002 (notes taken by Maarten de Kadt, November 16, 2002), retrieved on August 29, 2008. This 2½ hour talk covers much of the early history of the Bronx as a whole, in addition to the Bronx River.