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Media Gallery. Born in Saint-Avold, France, Risse graduated from a Christian Brothers school with high honors, immigrating to the United States in 1868 at the age of seventeen and settling in the Bronx. From 1868 to 1869, he surveyed and created maps for the New York and Harlem Railroad. Risse drafted a street map of the town of Morrisania ...
Oct 6, 2012 · Modeled after the Champs-Élysées and built at the height of the City Beautiful movement, the design by Alsatian engineer Louis Aloys Risse included paths for horses, cyclists, and pedestrians separated by tree-lined dividers, with underpasses at all major intersections.
Sep 18, 2013 · phillipe martin chatelain. 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...
Jan 5, 2016 · The roadway’s designer, Louis Aloys Risse, was a French immigrant who had previously worked for the New York Central Railroad. He envisioned the Grand Concourse as New York’s version of the Champs-Élysées—only longer—and the project would span 180 feet across, with bicycle paths, pedestrian sidewalks and three distinct roadways split ...
Mar 18, 2009 · Conceived in 1890 as a way of connecting Manhattan to the northern Bronx, the Grand Concourse was designed by Louis Aloys Risse, an Alsatian-born engineer, and opened in November 1909. To honor the centennial of the Grand Concourse, the Bronx Museum of the Arts has organized a yearlong, three-part exhibition. The first installment ...
Apr 20, 2009 · The Concourse was originally planned as a means for Manhattanites to get to Pelham Bay Park and to the newly built parkways along the north and east Bronx. What they got in 1909, as designed by engineer Louis Aloys Risse, far exceeded its function, a broad, elegant, tree-lined street lined with art-deco apartment buildings, ornate theaters and ...
A French immigrant and life-long civil servant by the name of Louis Aloys Risse was named its Chief Engineer. Risse, who spoke little English and had moved to The Bronx from his native St. Avoid, near the Franco-German border, was a visionary whose ideas earned him the moniker “crazy Frenchman.”. He began designing a “Grand Boulevard ...
