Part 2 of a bronx grand concourse tour. This one is about midway, heading north from yankee stadium. Enjoy!

 

After a detour to Jerome ave to see what was cookin with new yankee stadium, we’re back on the grand concourse in the 160’s and continuing north….

 

 

Bronx museum of art

http://www.bronxmuseum.org/

 

 

New Bronx museum wing and bronx housing court building (rafael vinoly)

 

 

What? Is this san francisco? A throwback photo dated 1902. There was always a road here, but “grand concourse” reconstruction forced these wood frame home owners to build temporary wood stairways. The homes are above 165th st & are located where the above housing court is today. the empty lot on the right is now the bronx museum.

 

And a further tme-out for another historic shot just to the west of here.  This is the port morris & spuyten duyvil railroad at the intersection of brook, Webster & park avenues in 1870. This morrisania neighborhood was an early African American community that formed around the harlem line at Melrose station. They were Pullman porters, cooks & stewards and their families lived in brick row houses. When the harlem real estate bubble crashed they moved down into harlem and thus… the start of “harlem” as we know it today.

 

Back on ’course now. The citizens advice bureau is purposefully next to housing court.

looking down sidestreets. the concourse is a true boulevard from here out, w/ a median & some trees and even a few planters.

 

 

 

here is what everybody obviously calls “the fish building.”

 

 

See some fish building interior pics here:

http://www.brorson.com/BronxWeb/GrandConcourse3.html

 

Fish & deco-‘scapes?

 

More next door, note the staggered & cornered windows, a deco tradition

 

 

 

 

 

 

A look to the east

 

And west -- w/ manhattan in the distance

 

 

 

 

 

 

nice deco-y detail – this one  was constructed in 1935 & the architect was Jacob Felson.

features a glass block and stainless steel entryway.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bronx lebanon hospital on the left and a sharp deco front on the right

   

 

 

very miami beach! also designed by jacob felson.

 

 

Around 175th st is the original hq of bell telephone (1923).

 

Just north of bronx leb, the grand concourse goes over the cross bronx – looking east

This is the highway (aka I-95) robert moses shoved across the bronx that directly led to it’s decline  :whip:

 

Looking west

 

 

 

Heading down below to take a look

 

 

 

 

back on the gc & continuing north is probably the most magnificent apt building on the blvd

 

 

 

 

named after lewis morris, signer of the declaration of independence

 

 

the subway station stylings are unique to the city here (cross bronx/morris avenue overpass)

 

also, near here is a marker to the grand concourse builders that I missed

 

modern signage on older fronts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pilgrim united church of christ, built in 1910 just after the gc road development was finished.

 

 

 

 

*** this section is a good place to stop. coming up in part 3 is…..paradise. ***

 

The wonderfulness continues!

First of all the residential density is amazing...especially with those mega-sized structures.  Second, the I-95/Robert Moses highway through the Brox is really powerful to see after reading something like The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs.