The Grand Concourse

Today's New York Times has an article on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. An apartment in one of the grand art deco apartment houses that lined this wide boulevard was the goal of many upwardly mobile Jews in the middle of the Twentieth Century. It runs from 138th Street north to Mosholu Parkway. Other highlights along the Concourse include The Bronx County Building at 161st Street; Joyce Kilmer Park with its Lorelei fountain; the Concourse Plaza Hotel, a prime location for a wedding or bar mitzvah back then; the Andrew Freeman House built as a retirement home for the formerly wealthy; Temple Adath Israel, Loew's Paradise, a recreation of an Italian baroque garden built in 1929 with a marble fountain with goldfish in the lobby; and Poe Park with the cottage where he once lived.