It has four identical sides, an interior court, and a frieze designed by noted sculptor Charles Keck.

[3] The building stands two blocks east-southeast of Yankee Stadium, and across 161st Street from Joyce Kilmer Park.

[4] The previous freestanding Bronx Borough Hall was damaged by fire and torn down in 1969, but had stopped operating in an official capacity long before this.

The first floor's Veterans Memorial Hall houses four 10-by-36-foot (3.0 by 11.0 m) murals, one per wall, by James Monroe Hewlett, depicting historic events in the Bronx.

Many people, including the proprietor of Jonas Bronck's Beer Co and a reported descendant of Laurens Duyts, a Danish farmer who traveled to New Amsterdam with Bronck on his ship Fire of Troy, sought the mural's restoration prior to the 100th anniversary of the Bronx's separation from New York County in 2014.