Just one of the marvelously rendered and colored signs that you see on some of the Art Deco apartment houses along the Grand Concourse and other locales in the Bronx. I’ve seen some of these in Brooklyn as well. 12/14/12
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GRAND CONCOURSE PART 2
October 9, 2011Continuing my halting, wavering, and occasionally incoherent way up the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, the spine of the western Bronx broached in Grand Concourse Part 1, my first stop was the grand pasha of Bronx entertainment meccas, Loew’s Paradise and East 188th, just south of Fordham Road. Of the dozens of movie theatres in 20th [...]
Categorized in: Walks Tagged with: Bronx Fordham Grand Concourse
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BACK ON ‘COURSE: Revisiting the Grand Concourse
October 3, 2011The Grand Concourse runs up the western end of the Bronx like a zipper. Unzip it and you will find Bronx past, present and future: the grand visions of a suburban borough for the wealthy, that turned into a gritty, urban superhighway from Yankee Stadium to Van Cortlandt Park. FNY has been covering the Concourse [...]
Categorized in: Walks Tagged with: Bronx Grand Concourse
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COME ON IN More subway oddities
October 4, 2009My fascination with the NYC subway’s infrastructure continues unabated and my love affair with the subways remains unrequited. That is made clear every weekend, when the MTA runs most lines completely differently than it does during the week. The subways are now over 105 years old (some lines are, at least) and while the sensible notion [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Borough Hall Broad Channel Bronx Brooklyn Central Park Grand Concourse Inwood Kensington Manhattan Mott Haven Roosevelt Island Wanamaker’s Washington Heights
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BACK ON (GRAND) CONCOURSE
November 20, 2005Title card: 910 Grand Concourse at East 163 St I FIRST WALKED the Bronx’s Grand Concourse on July 18, 1999, on ForgottenTour 2. It was 100 degrees, the tour split up into two factions, there was a Dominican Day Parade, a thunderstorm, and some of us wound up in a bar on Bainbridge Avenue watching [...]
Categorized in: Roads Street Scenes Tagged with: Bronx Fordham Grand Concourse Mount Eden
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GRAND CONCOURSE, Bronx
August 19, 2000On two separate trips, in the summers of 1999 and 2000, I walked the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, which marches north from the Major Deegan Expressway to Mosholu Parkway through Mott Haven, Concourse Village, Mount Eden, Mount Hope (the Concourse is constructed on a hill), Fordham, and Bedford Park. Eleven lanes wide from 161st Street [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Roads Street Scenes Tagged with: Bronx Fordham Grand Concourse Mount Eden