
A visionary feat of 19th-century city planning, largely taken for granted by 21st-century New Yorkers, the Grand Concourse flows through the Bronx from Van Cortlandt Park at the top to East 138th Street at the south. Inspired by the Champs-Élysées in Paris and designed by Alsatian-born engineer Louis Risse, the famous thoroughfare was originally conceived…
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