To the east of Grand Concourse are three parallel avenues honoring Civil War generals Sheridan, Sherman, and Grant. The last one accepted the surrender of the largest Confederate army and…
Grand Concourse
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I am a fan of infrastructural elements in street layouts that aren’t shown on maps and consequently, I was unaware of until I bumped into them myself when out for…
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In the early days of Forgotten New York I would amble up Grand Concourse all the way from East 138th to Mosholu Parkway and take in all the magnificent apartment…
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Eleven lanes wide from 161st Street north to Mosholu, the Grand Boulevard and Concourse (shortened to Grand Concourse for the benefit of sign makers and cabbies) was conceived by engineer Louis Risse…
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A statue of Major General Franz Sigel (1824-1902) overlooks Riverside Drive at West 106th Street. Sigel, born in Baden, Germany, served in the German military until 1852, when he emigrated…
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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.…
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Continuing 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…
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The 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…
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My 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…
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Title 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…
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On 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…