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1 online resource (280 pages) |
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: A PROMENADE FOR THE BRONX; 1 "A Drive of Extraordinary Delightfulness"; 2 "Get a New Resident for the Bronx"; 3 "I Was Living in 'a Modern Building'"; II: THE GOLDEN GHETTO; 4 "Something That Everybody Had in Awe"; 5 "An Acre of Seats in a Garden of Dreams"; 6 "By the Waters of the Grand Concourse"; 7 The Grand Concourse of the Imagination; III: TO HELL AND BACK; 8 "The Borough of Abandonment"; 9 Who Killed the Concourse?; 10 "Bends in the Road"; Sources; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
Stretching over four miles through the center of the West Bronx, the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, known simply as the Grand Concourse, has gracefully served as silent witness to the changing face of the Bronx, and New York City, for a century. Now, a New York Times editor brings to life the street in all its raucous glory. Designed by a French engineer in the late nineteenth century to echo the elegance and grandeur of the Champs Elysées in Paris, the Concourse was nearly twenty years in the making and celebrates its centennial in November 2009. Over that century it has truly been a boulevar |
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About the Author |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and index |
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Print version record |
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Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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Jews
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Manners and customs
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Social conditions
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Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
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Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
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Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- History
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Grand Concourse (New York, N.Y.) -- History
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New York (State) -- New York
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New York (State) -- New York -- Bronx
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New York (State) -- New York -- Grand Concourse
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814777404 |
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0814777406 |
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