Untapped Cities

8 Architectural Gems along the Bronx’s Grand Concourse: County Courthouse, Post Office, Loew’s Paradise Theater, Poe Cottage

The Grand Concourse has been compared with grand boulevards from the Champs Élysées in Paris to Park Avenue in Manhattan. As a result, it is a great choice to sample some of the best architecture the ...
Untapped Cities

History of NYC Streets: Grand Concourse Was a 20th Century Attempt to Make Bronx More Like Paris

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 Risse, a French immigrant and chief ...
Commercial Observer

Regal Signs 58K-SF Lease to Open Movie Theater at the Bronx’s Concourse Plaza

Moviegoers, grab your soda and popcorn, because Regal Cinemas will premiere its first movie theater in the Bronx later this month. The theater, called Regal Concourse, will open in the Bronx’s ...
The New York Times

A Resurgence in the Bronx Is Finally Putting the Grand Back in the Concourse

During one of the Grand Concourse's low points, in the 1960's, the city's Parks Department decided not to replant grass in the boulevard's median. Instead, it poured cement and painted it green. It ...