48-718: Grand Concourse can refer to: Grand Concourse (Bronx) , a boulevard in New York City Grand Concourse (St. John's) , an integrated walkway network in Newfoundland and Labrador Grand Concourse (restaurant) , an eatery owned by Landry's, Inc. in Pittsburgh See also [ edit ] Grand Concourse Apartments , in Miami Grand Concourse buses Topics referred to by
96-452: A 69% drop in accidents along this section between 1998 and 2005. The final part of the demonstration project was completed in 2008. Following the success of the "demonstration" reconstruction, the NYCDOT unveiled a four-phase capital project between 161st Street and Fordham Road as part of a capital project, which would receive funding directly from the city. The demonstration project was
144-701: A borough-wide "Bronx Day" event. The first exhibit consisted of 28 paintings from the Met's collection. The museum was originally housed in the first floor rotunda (the Veteran's Memorial Hall) of the Bronx County Courthouse , converted using $ 77,000 in municipal funds. Additional galleries were located in the Bronx's Co-op City , Bedford Park , and Allerton neighborhoods, with the Allerton gallery
192-472: A career retrospective of African American artist Romare Bearden and a presentation of the then-evolving school of computer -generated art. More recent exhibitions have included the 2006 presentation "Tropicalia: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture" and the 2008 overview of street-level photography by Jamel Shabazz , a Harlem -based artist. In 2013, the museum won a competition to represent
240-621: A few blocks west of the Grand Concourse in 1917, initiating a housing boom amongst upwardly mobile, predominantly Jewish and Italian, families who were fleeing the crowded tenements of Manhattan. In 1923, Yankee Stadium opened near the Grand Concourse at 161st Street, down the hill from the Concourse Plaza Hotel . South of Fordham Road, the palatial Loew's Paradise theater, one of the Loew's Wonder Theatres and at one time
288-833: A historic district. Bronx Museum of the Arts The Bronx Museum of the Arts ( BxMA ), also called the Bronx Museum of Art or simply the Bronx Museum , is an American cultural institution located in Concourse, Bronx, New York . The museum focuses on contemporary and 20th-century works created by American artists, but it has hosted exhibitions of art and design from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Its permanent collection consists of more than 800 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper. The museum
336-416: Is briefly a ten-lane boulevard with four roadways, two in each direction, until just south of 165th Street. There, the northbound and southbound inner roadways merge into a five-lane undivided roadway with two lanes in each direction and a left-turn lane and painted median in the center. The buffered bike lanes on each service road end at East 171st Street, and conventional bike lanes start on the right lane of
384-611: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Grand Concourse (Bronx) 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,
432-620: Is part of the Grand Concourse Historic District . The Bronx Museum of the Arts was originally opened to try to stir interest in the arts in the Bronx borough and to serve the diverse populations of the area. The museum opened on May 11, 1971, in a partnership between the Bronx Council on the Arts , which was founded in 1961, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art . The opening coincided with
480-574: 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 . The Grand Concourse's southern terminus is at East 138th Street. Shortly afterward, it merges with
528-639: The 1939 WPA Guide to New York City , the Grand Concourse was described as "the Park Avenue of middle-class Bronx residents, and the lease to an apartment in one of its many large buildings is considered evidence of at least moderate business success." In 1941, the New York City Planning Department proposed converting the boulevard into an expressway, in order to connect the Major Deegan Expressway and
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#1732766211787576-529: The 1980s, The New York Times characterized the Concourse as "a driver’s paradise". Traffic lights were timed so that motorists received a " green wave ", moving through multiple intersections per light cycle. Meanwhile, pedestrian crossings and trees were eliminated, and green highway signs were placed on the Concourse. During the 1980s, landlords along the Concourse and elsewhere in the South Bronx began rehabilitating their buildings. The Bronx Museum of
624-564: The Arts , was one of the institutions to move to the area, relocating in 1982 to a former synagogue at Grand Concourse and 167th Street. The city created the "Special Grand Concourse Preservation District" in 1989 to preserve the character of residential buildings on the Concourse. This led to new building developments on the Concourse starting in the 1990s, including the Rafael Viñoly -designed Bronx Housing Courthouse at 1118 Grand Concourse. In addition, basement stores started opening on
672-628: The Bronx Museum of the Arts. The museum's founding is credited to Irma Fleck who created the museum to try to reverse the decline of the South Bronx. She was a member of the Bronx Council of the Arts. In 2006, Holly Block became the museum's director. She was previously the executive director of Art in General , a nonprofit organization in New York City , and replaced Olivia Georgia. One of Block's most known decisions as director
720-399: The Concourse in the 1980s, serving the predominantly minority communities around the boulevard. By 2003, a New York Times writer observed that "every block between 161st Street and 196th Street now has a grocery, a barber shop, a travel agency or a medical clinic". By the early 1990s, politicians and community advocates strove to make the Concourse more usable for pedestrians. At that time,
768-492: 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
816-616: The Concourse was one of the most dangerous streets in New York City, with twelve pedestrians dying in 1991, rivaling the reputation of Queens Boulevard as the "Boulevard of Death". In 1992, the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) conducted a study of the Grand Concourse, which resulted in improvements such as left-turn signals; pedestrian barriers; roadway markings; repainted crosswalks; and new and improved signage. These improvements continued along
864-504: 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,
912-594: The Concourse. From south to north (in increasing address order), they include: In 2011, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Grand Concourse from 153rd to 167th Streets as part of the Grand Concourse Historic District. The State of New York had previously nominated the buildings at 730–1000, 1100–1520, 1560, and 851–1675 Grand Concourse for listing on the National Register of Historic Places as
960-537: The Concourse. The cost of the project was $ 14 million (worth $ 512,736,000 today). The Grand Concourse originally stretched from Bronx Borough Hall at 161st Street north to Van Cortlandt Park . It was expanded southward to 138th Street in 1927 after Mott Avenue was widened to accommodate the boulevard. Evidence of the Grand Concourse extension's old name is present at the 149th Street–Grand Concourse station , where there are signs reading "Mott Avenue". The Interborough Rapid Transit Company 's Jerome Avenue Line opened
1008-507: The Met. An expansion and renovation was completed in 1988 at the cost of $ 5.8 million. In February 2004, construction began on a $ 19 million expansion project that doubled the museum's size to 33,000 square feet (3,100 m ). The expansion opened in October 2006. In 2008, a 3,000-square-foot (280 m ) arts center was added to accommodate educational programs for local schoolchildren and their families. Beginning on March 29, 2012,
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#17327662117871056-615: The South Bronx left for suburban areas in a process known as white flight ; they were helped by the construction of the Interstate Highway System . At the same time, African Americans and Puerto Ricans were moving to the Bronx for blue-collar jobs; however, these jobs were increasingly being shifted to the suburbs, the Southern United States , and other countries. Racial discrimination against these demographic groups prevented them from moving to
1104-659: The United States at the 2013 Venice Biennale ; the museum commissioned “Triple Point”, an installation by artist Sarah Sze . From 2015 to 2016, the museum held a retrospective of Martin Wong 's career entitled Martin Wong: Human Instamatic . In 2016, the museum featured the exhibition "Mask" by photographer Frank Gimpaya who collaborated with the En Foco organization for the exhibition. The exhibition
1152-411: The areas along the Grand Concourse of most of its remaining middle-class residents. Many buildings in the area were damaged by arson, vandalism, and a lack of maintenance. The road itself was modified to be more hospitable to motorists. During the 1960s, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation removed the grass median on the Concourse and replaced it with cement that was painted green. By
1200-778: The corridor: Risse first conceived of the road in 1890, as a means of connecting the borough of Manhattan to the northern Bronx. Construction began on the Grand Concourse in 1894 and it was opened to traffic in November 1909. Built during the height of the City Beautiful movement , it was modeled on the Champs-Élysées in Paris but is considerably larger, stretching four miles (6 km) in length, measuring 180 feet (55 m) across, and separated into three roadways by tree-lined dividers, so some minor streets did not cross
1248-673: The director and chief curator at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University . Deborah Cullen departed in 2019. The board appointed former deputy director, Klaudio Rodriguez as interim director in December 2019. Rodriguez came to the Bronx Museum in 2017 from the Frost Art Museum at Florida International University. In November 2020 he became executive director. The museum has a $ 3.5 million operating budget. Once supported almost entirely by government funding, it
1296-414: The entire corridor through 2006. As an experiment, the NYCDOT also completely rebuilt the section between 161st Street and 167th Streets starting in 1999, as a "demonstration" project. The Grand Concourse underwent an $ 18 million restoration and landscaping to widen and landscape the medians; improve lighting; add new signage; build pedestrian planters in the medians; and add bike lanes. This resulted in
1344-423: The entrance ramp to southbound Major Deegan Expressway ( I-87 ), as well as the exit ramp from northbound I-87. The Grand Concourse continues as a divided eight-lane avenue, with two to three traffic lanes in each direction, until East 161st Street. North of there, the service roads in each direction begin, and a unidirectional buffered bike lane runs on the left edge of either service road. The Grand Concourse
1392-460: The facade, and built a three-story glass atrium at one of the corners, which serves as the museum lobby. The 1988 design has been described as "awkward" and "darksome" with "cramped balconies" and a cornerside entrance that give it a "suburban mall" feel. It has also been criticized due to its lack of exhibition space. The 2006 expansion at 1046 Grand Concourse was designed by Miami -based architecture firm Arquitectonica , which added
1440-564: The finest examples of Art Deco and Art Moderne architecture in the United States. Even though the Great Depression , which was happening at the time, ended the period of tremendous growth, privately financed apartment buildings continued to be constructed. Furthermore, work was done on the Grand Concourse as part of WPA programs. During this period, the Bronx had more amenities than other boroughs: in 1934, almost 99% of residences had private bathrooms, and 95% had central heating. In
1488-468: The first phase of the capital project. A reconstruction of the Grand Concourse between 166th and 171st Street began in 2013 and was finished in June 2017. Funding is being allocated for a reconstruction of the Grand Concourse from 171st Street to 175th Street, which is already in planning. In January 2017, the New York City Department of Transportation started planning for a fourth phase, which will renovate
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1536-506: The largest movie theater in New York City, was constructed in 1929. Development of the Concourse was further encouraged by the opening of the Independent Subway System 's Concourse Line in 1933. By the mid-1930s, almost three hundred apartment buildings had been built along the Concourse. Customarily five or six stories high with wide entrance courtyards bordered with grass and shrubs, among these apartments are many of
1584-497: The museum began "A Decade of En Foco" with the exhibition, "En Foco Documentation Portfolio N1, The New York Puerto Rican Experience." In this series of exhibitions, the Bronx Museum of the Arts showcased works by artists in the En Foco organization, a group of photographers who work to promote the work of Hispanic artists. The series of exhibitions ended in 1986. In 1987, the museum gained attention for two high-profile exhibitions:
1632-460: The museum ceased charging admission for all days, whereas previously, admission was free on Fridays only. In 2016, the museum announced that it was starting a $ 25 million plan to renovate and expand and well as establish a $ 10 million endowment. The plan would be overseen by architect Monica Ponce de Leon , and it received $ 7 million from the mayor Bill de Blasio 's office. The rest of the funds qere expected to be raised privately. The first part of
1680-699: The proposed Park Avenue Expressway to the south with the Mosholu Parkway to the north. However, these plans were abandoned following the southern extension of the Bronx River Parkway in the 1940s and the extension of the Major Deegan Expressway to the north in the 1950s. The south and central Bronx rapidly deteriorated in the 1960s, as there was general disinvestment in the region's real estate, exacerbated by urban renewal and redlining programs. Many white residents of
1728-492: The region would experience demographic changes, it would be working-class, “community-oriented” people, as opposed to the richer individuals that have gentrified other neighborhoods of the city. Several buildings of importance to New York City and the Bronx, both because of their history and their current use, are located along the Grand Concourse. There are also numerous structures designated as New York City Landmarks (NYCL) and National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on
1776-506: The renovation was planned to be completed by 2020. The museum revealed a new plan for the renovation in 2022, designed by Marvel Architects. Work on the renovation did not start until July 2024, at which point it was slated to cost $ 33 million. The museum is located at the northeast corner of 165th Street and the Grand Concourse in the Concourse neighborhood of the South Bronx , slightly northeast of Yankee Stadium . The building
1824-407: The respective service roads. This configuration with three roadways (two service roads and one main road) continues north until Mosholu Parkway , where the Grand Concourse ends. At Fordham Road , the main road passes underneath in a grade-separated junction , while the service roads intersect with Fordham Road. Grand Concourse is served by the following subway lines: And these bus routes serve
1872-426: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Grand Concourse . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grand_Concourse&oldid=874802164 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1920-530: The section between 175th Street and Fordham Road. Because of its attractive art deco buildings and close proximity to Manhattan , the southern portion has been experiencing gentrification and is drawing many young professionals to the area. Since the 2000s, the area around the Grand Concourse has been the center of what real estate agents are calling a “renewal", with new residents moving in, and severe crime rates having decreased significantly. The New York Times cited several residents who believed that, while
1968-597: The structure features black and white concrete blocks organized in geometric patterns, similar to the brick facades of rowhouses and commercial buildings in the Bronx. These walls are temporary, designed to be removed in the event of future expansion, which would replace the original museum with a residential high-rise building. At the rear of the structure on the second floor is a sculpture garden . This new expansion has been described as "a white box with raw concrete floors" that, although "institutional," serves its purpose of being accessible to all visitors. In 1986,
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2016-429: The suburbs, forcing them into deteriorating urban housing stock. The buildings around the Concourse thus came to be perceived as old and low-rent, and subsequent cycles of disinvestment led landlords on the Concourse to pay decreasingly less attention to their housing stock, while banks and insurance companies failed to give financial support to these neighborhoods. Further outward migration between 1968 and 1970 drained
2064-434: The three-story North Wing building adjacent to the original structure. It features a larger entrance with a two-story lobby, a new gallery and enhanced educational facilities. The outer design uses a "pleated aluminum facade" in contemporary Art Deco / Art Moderne style. It consists of seven irregularly-shaped vertical aluminum pieces connected by fritted glass , resembling an accordion or paper fan . The side of
2112-468: Was inspired by "The Veil" by Georges Seurat and was an attempt to celebrate the work of Gimpaya and a new-era for the En Foco group. The museum annually hosts "The Artist in the Marketplace" (AIM) program where a panel of art professionals select artists to participate in the program. The aim of the program is to allow emerging artists a networking opportunity. The program ends with an exhibition in
2160-694: Was located in the Beth Abraham Hospital. In its first 12 years of operation, the museum held over 350 exhibitions. In 1982, the city purchased a vacant synagogue at 165th Street and the Grand Concourse as a new location for the museum. The new location opened to the public in May 1983, in conjunction with "Bronx Week," which succeeded "Bronx Day." The new space was inaugurated with an exhibition of twentieth century artwork. It consisted of paintings, photographs, and prints borrowed form
2208-550: Was originally the Young Israel Synagogue, or Young Israel of the Concourse, constructed from 1959 to 1961 and designed by Ukrainian-born Simon B. Zelnick. The building was converted into a museum space in the early 1980s using concrete, steel and glass, at the cost of $ 2 million. The 1988 expansion was designed by Castro-Blanco, Piscioneri & Feder, who renovated the building exterior with black granite and metal, added large continuous "ribbon windows" on
2256-439: 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
2304-463: Was to make admission at the museum free in 2012, following which the museum has quadrupled attendance. In 2011, museum officials also put together a council of residents to serve as "cultural ambassadors" to the community and to advise them on public engagement. In July 2018, Deborah Cullen began as the director of the museum. Previously, the position had been vacant due to the death of former director Holly Block in 2017. Cullen previously worked as
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