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Jan 30, 2019 · We’re back for another look at old photographs of The Bronx. Most of these images are from 100 or more years ago and are from the New-York Historical Society’s Digital Collections. So much has changed and yet some are still so recognizable if you look hard enough.
- The Grand Concourse: A Look at The Bronx’s Most Famous Street
Also known as The Grand Boulevard and Concourse, the 5.2...
- 13 Old Bronx Pics You May Not Recognize - Welcome2TheBronx
13 Vintage Photos of The Bronx. Old Bronx pics are amazing....
- The Grand Concourse: A Look at The Bronx’s Most Famous Street
The BRONX Historic Streets Of 1900 to 1980s Help support the channel buymeacoffee.com/HecksTennis Take a trip to the past looking at photos of the history of the Bronx New York. See many...
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Dec 15, 2015 · Today we’re sharing some of our favorites of The Bronx where you can see how things have changed—or not. Third Avenue at 148th Street in The Hub looking north towards Melrose in 1926. Many of the buildings in this image still stand including Immaculate Conception Church (minus its steeple).
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The idea of the Grand Concourse came from a French immigrant named Louis Aloys Risse who conceived it in 1890 as a way to connect Manhattan to the northern Bronx, which back then was known as the Annexed District. Risse envisioned a wide boulevard stretching for miles that would rival the Champs-Élysées in Paris which was his inspiration in designi...
The first residents were mostly Jewish and Italian residents, many with professional backgrounds from doctors to lawyers and just the average American upwardly mobile middle-class family. New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission wrote: “During the 1920s, the Bronx, anointed as “the wonder borough,” emerged as New York’s fastest growing borou...
It wasn’t until the early 2000s, when crime began dropping, that things started to turn around. Interest in preserving the history of the Grand Concourse grew and in 2011, a large portion stretching from 153rd Street to 167th Street was designated as the Grand Concourse Historic District by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Sadly...
Feb 23, 2014 · Even today, some of the streets are sans sidewalks. The neighborhood id bisected by the old New York, Westchester and Boston Railroad, which was purchased by NYC in 1940 and made into first a shuttle elevated, then connected to the White Plains Road el at the 180th Street station (see below).
Aug 3, 2017 · 13 Vintage Photos of The Bronx. Old Bronx pics are amazing. The Bronx of 100 years ago was very different but in some ways very similar. Much of the West Bronx was developed, the street grid we’re familiar with today was already pretty much laid out as well as the subways we ride today.
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Aug 5, 2020 · That’s why the forest at the New York Botanical Garden is revelatory. It’s the only old growth forest left in the city. There were poems written in the 19th century about it.
