Art Deco on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, Part 2

[Virtual tour] The Bronx’s Grand Concourse, 4 1/2 miles long, rises above surrounding streets and makes a gently curving path in a plan that might rival the Champs Élysées in Paris. In the years after World War I, the Concourse developed into the spine of a dense residential district, now famous for its Art Deco apartment houses.

This virtual tour with Anthony W. Robins focuses on the northern end of the Concourse and points east. On the Concourse itself, highlights include the Wagner Building, with one of the city’s finest intact commercial lobbies; the Dollar Savings Bank, whose clock tower, visible for miles around, is one of the Bronx’s true landmarks; and 1500 Grand Concourse, a handsome apartment building by Jacob Felson. To the east: the Bronx Zoo’s Rainey Gates, with Paul Manship’s sculptures of Zoo residents; Herman Ridder Junior High School, the city’s first Art Deco public school; one of the city’s eleven mid-1930s “Play Centers” built by Robert Moses; and Orchard Beach and its grand curving Bathhouse. Mr. Robins is the author of the award-winning book “New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture” (SUNY Press 2017.)

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