Grand concourse bronx new york

The BQE, this isn't: The Grand Concourse, which stretches four miles throughout the Bronx, is far from your average highway. It's one of New York’s most impressive, historic thoroughfares—as the name suggests, it's a grand, wide roadway separated into different parts by tree-lined medians and flanked by apartment buildings, businesses, and imposing civic structures on either side. It was built between 1894 and 1909, during the height of the City Beautiful Movement, a North American…

For an insider take on the Concourse, the guy to talk to is Samuel M. Goodman, who grew up on the Grand Concourse, the stately five-mile thoroughfare that gives the area its name. It is a working-class community, and many of its residents are front line workers who have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic.

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Grand Concourse & Rockwood Street, Bronx NYC

Fifth Avenue it’s not, but fans of the Grand Concourse will be swelling with pride over the beloved boulevard tomorrow when it’s considered as the city’s next historic district. T…

Loew’s Paradise Theatre, Bronx, New York – 1932. On the bill -- Jack Holt in “This Sporting Age” and on stage Lou Holtz, Irene Bordoni, Barto and Mann, June Knight and Benny Meroff & Orchestra. Photo by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto and Mann.

An apartment house on the Grand Concourse, the Bronx.