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    BRONX’S NEWEST PARK

    by Kevin Walsh April 19, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 19, 2025 5 comments

    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…

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    ARCHES OF THE CONCOURSE

    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2021 7 comments

    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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  • One Shots

    CONCOURSE PLAZA HOTEL, Melrose

    by Kevin Walsh January 30, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 30, 2021 7 comments

    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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  • One Shots

    FORDHAM ROAD BRIDGE

    by Kevin Walsh June 11, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh June 11, 2018 4 comments

    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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  • One Shots

    FRANZ SIGEL PARK, Grand Concourse

    by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2014 5 comments

    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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  • Signs

    APARTMENTS AVAILABLE

    by Kevin Walsh December 14, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh December 14, 2012 5 comments

    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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  • Walks

    GRAND CONCOURSE PART 2

    by Kevin Walsh October 9, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh October 9, 2011 68 comments

    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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  • Walks

    BACK ON ‘COURSE: Revisiting the Grand Concourse

    by Kevin Walsh October 3, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh October 3, 2011 34 comments

    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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  • Subways & Trains

    COME ON IN More subway oddities

    by Kevin Walsh October 4, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh October 4, 2009 0 comment

    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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  • RoadsStreet Scenes

    BACK ON (GRAND) CONCOURSE

    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2005
    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2005 0 comment

    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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  • NeighborhoodsRoadsStreet Scenes

    GRAND CONCOURSE, Bronx

    by Kevin Walsh August 19, 2000
    by Kevin Walsh August 19, 2000 1 comment

    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…

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