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Risse, Louis Aloys, 1896-1903 (Chief Top Engineer and Engineer of Concourse, City of New York Commissioner of Street Improvements [and later] Chief Topographical Engineer, Board of Public Improvements, City of New York Topographical Bureau, New York, New York) [ANS Chapman brothers business correspondence] Bookreader Item Preview
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 ...
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...
May 3, 2024 · Photo via City-Data from Wikimedia Commons. The Grand Concourse is also known as the “Champs-Élysées of the Bronx, which is what the road’s French designer, Louis Aloys Risse, intended when...
3 days ago · It was conceived in 1890 by Louis Aloys Risse, a French immigrant and chief topographical engineer of New York City. Since its opening in 1909, it has become “ the Bronx’s most famous street...
May 22, 2020 · Risse envisioned a wide boulevard stretching for miles that would rival the Champs-Élysées in Paris which was his inspiration in designing the Grand Concourse but it would stretch miles longer. Mott Avenue, what would become the Grand Concourse south of 161st Street / Image via Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local ...
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 ...
