New York is not the first place that comes to mind when talking about slavery in America. But in early to mid 20th century, the Grand Concourse and other Bronx neighborhoods were home to the Bronx ...
The Grand Concourse is a major thoroughfare in the Bronx that spans more than four miles in the western part of the borough. It was conceived in 1890 by Louis Aloys Risse, a French immigrant and chief ...
The People's Guide is a new series examining New York City's many, many neighborhoods, led by our most loyal readers, favorite bloggers, and other luminaries of our choosing. This time around, we ...
The Grand Concourse, the four-and-a-half-mile boulevard that runs through the West Bronx to Manhattan, stirs up strong feelings in Bronxites. Some are nostalgic about its heyday, in the first decades ...
It was once called the Park Avenue of the Bronx, a bustling thoroughfare modeled after Paris' Champs-Elysèes. Babe Ruth once lived there, as have countless immigrants who made it one of their first ...
The heartbroken sister of a 12-year-old Bronx girl killed at the same intersection as Russell Smith said Wednesday’s tragedy should never have happened. “The Grand Concourse is the most dangerous ...