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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 ...
The second building is One Fordham Plaza (also stylized as 1 Fordham Plaza), [11] a 14-story office complex which occupies the entire eastern block on Fordham Road and Washington Avenue. The building was designed by the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill firm, and architect Raul de Armas. [13] [14] It is L-shaped, with sides along Fordham Road and ...
[4] [18] There is a band course running across the facade above the Grand Concourse entrance, which bears the inscription "Bronx – United States Post Office – New York". The inscription is flanked by rosettes. [4] [16] On the facade, flanking the Grand Concourse entrance, are two sculptures: The Letter by Henry Kreis and Noah by Charles Rudy.
The chain thrived even during the Great Depression, and opened a location on Fordham Road and the Grand Concourse in The Bronx in 1933. [9] At its heyday in the 1930s, this store was known for its discount bargains and had more sales per square foot than any other store in the United States. [8]
[12] [13] In 1996 it was sold for $130,000 at a 1 Police Plaza auction to Gus Kitkas, owner of the Five Borough Electrical Supply Corporation in Astoria. [14] In 1998 it was auctioned again and sold for $300,000 to Henry Weinstein, a citywide and Brooklyn private developer, for development, [ 15 ] In 2011, Weinstein and partners looked to ...
The Paradise Theater is located at 2403 Grand Concourse [4] [5] in the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City, New York. [6] The theater was one of five Loew's Wonder Theatres in the New York City area, along with the Jersey Theatre in Jersey City, the 175th Street Theatre in Manhattan, the Valencia Theatre in Queens, and the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn.
The building at 614 George St., in De Pere, housed Chatterhouse 2016 and Bu-Tiffle Things Boutique until owners Kevin and Shannon Charles sold the building in early 2024.
The Bronx County Courthouse, also known as the Mario Merola Building, is an historic courthouse building located in the Concourse and Melrose neighborhoods of the Bronx in New York City. It was designed in 1931 and built between 1931 and 1934. It is a nine-story limestone building on a rusticated granite base in the Art Deco style.