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. For most of its length, the Concourse is 180 feet (55 m) wide, though portions of the Concourse are narrower.
The Grand Concourse was designed by Louis Aloys Risse, an immigrant from Saint-Avold, Lorraine, France. Risse first conceived of the road in 1890, and the Concourse was built between 1894 and 1909, with an additional extension in 1927. The development of the Concourse led to the construction of apartment buildings (a plurality of six-story high-class semi-fireproof elevator apartment houses was perceptibly interspersed with buildings that ranged from a more affordable tier of five-story New Law walk-up apartment houses to a handful of taller fireproof apartment houses comparable to those on Manhattan's luxury thoroughfares) surrounding the boulevard. By 1939, it was called "the Park Avenue of middle-class Bronx residents". A period of decline followed in the 1960s and 1970s, when these residences became dilapidated and the Concourse was redesigned to be more motorist-friendly. Renovation and redevelopment started in the 1980s, and a portion of the Grand Concourse was reconstructed starting in the 2000s.
The southern portion of the Grand Concourse is surrounded by several historically important residential buildings, which were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 as part of the Grand Concourse Historic District. In 2011, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated numerous buildings around the Grand Concourse as part of a city landmark district. Additionally, several individual points of interest are located on or near the Concourse, including the Bronx Museum of the Arts and Edgar Allan Poe Cottage.
558 Grand Concourse - The Bronx General Post Office (NRHP, NYCL; built 1935-1937; architect Thomas Harlan Ellett). The interior includes a notable series of New Deal-era murals in fresco created in 1939 by Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn.
851 Grand Concourse - The Bronx County Courthouse (NRHP, NYCL; built 1931-1934; architect Joseph H. Freelander and Max Hausle)
1040 Grand Concourse - The Bronx Museum of the Arts (built 1961, converted to museum 1982, addition 2006)
1125 Grand Concourse - Andrew Freedman Home (NYCL; built 1924; architect Friedlander Jacobs), later converted into a small hotel
1150 Grand Concourse - The Fish Building (built 1937)
2403 Grand Concourse - Loew's Paradise Theater (NYCL; built 1929)
2516-2530 Grand Concourse - Dollar Savings Bank Building (NYCL; built 1932-33, 1937-38, and 1949-52; architect Adolf L. Muller of Halsey, McCormack & Helmer). The 10-story headquarters of the Dollar Dry Dock Savings Banks (now liquidated), it contains a clock tower at its top.
2640 Grand Concourse - Poe Cottage, the last home of Edgar Allan Poe (NRHP, NYCL; built 1812; architect John Wheeler)
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