There's a note on my phone reminding me to write about the Grand Concourse. It, the note, has been on the phone for a month so I figured it was time to do that post.
The Grand Concourse in the Bronx was designed in the late 19th century to be New York's version of the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The street boomed after a subway line opened a couple of blocks west in 1917 and another line along the street in 1933, serving as a new neighborhood for people escaping the crowded tenements of lower Manhattan.
There lots of mid-sized Art Moderne apartment buildings, like those above, lining the Grand Concourse. There are also a few Art Deco buildings. The overall effect, though, is more dowdy and dull than grand. Dowdy and dull, that is, until you arrive upon...
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