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October 25, 2011. The Grand Concourse (also known as the Grand Boulevard and Concourse) is a 5.2-mile-long (8.4 km) thoroughfare in the borough of the Bronx in New York City. Grand Concourse runs through several neighborhoods, including Bedford Park, Concourse, Highbridge, Fordham, Mott Haven, Norwood and Tremont.
The Paradise Theater, formerly Loew's Paradise Theatre, is a movie palace-type theater located at 2417 Grand Concourse in the Bronx, New York. Constructed in 1929 at the height of grand movie theaters, in the later 20th century the building was used also for live entertainment.
Jan 5, 2016 · 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.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts ( BxMA ), also called the Bronx Museum of Art [2] or simply the Bronx Museum, [3] is an American cultural institution located in Concourse, Bronx, New York. The museum focuses on contemporary and 20th-century works created by American artists, but it has hosted exhibitions of art and design from Latin America ...
Mar 18, 2009 · The museum was founded in 1971. The first installment of the exhibition traces the Grand Concourse’s remarkable history with works of art, architectural drawings, prints, photographs and other objects. The show traces Risse’s vision of a “transverse road,” slicing through farmlands; the rapid expansion of the area that accompanied the ...
4 days ago · The 104-year-old concourse measures 180 feet wide with three roadways separated by tree-lined dividers. The design was supposed to echo Paris’ Champs Élysées due to its magnitude in relation ...
Aug 21, 2009 · Aug. 20, 2009. THE Grand Concourse, the four-and-a-half-mile boulevard that for much of its life was described as the Champs-Élysées of the Bronx, has often sat for its portrait, as have many...
