Friday, November 6, 2020

Marvelous Art Deco architecture of the Grand Concourse in Bronx



According to the excellent Daily Beast article (https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-grand-concourse-in-the-bronx-is-one-of-the-best-spots-for-art-deco-fanatics) , "The area surrounding the Grand Concourse in that borough contains over 300 Art Deco and Art Moderne buildings, one of the densest concentrations in the US. " Most of those buildings are residential unlike Chrysler or Empire State buildings in midtown. So, from outside, only a few buildings are very outstanding, but once inside, very fascinating lobbies surprised me one after another. "The Grand Concourse was a symbol of a prosperous and new future, and for many the first stop on the economic ladder out of overcrowded Lower East Side tenements."

Here are only a  few examples of exteriors, entrance foyer and lobbies of those Art Deco apartment buildings.

888 Grand Concourse, designed by a prominent architect, Hungarian Emery Roth, also responsible for the El Dorado and San Remo on Central Park West.








1035 Grand Concourse, designed by Horace Ginsbern









1150 Grand Concourse, designed by Jacob Felson, known as the “Fish Building with tinted concrete mosaic on its exterior




















1166 Grand Concourse, designed by Jacob Felson









851 Grand Concourse, Bronx County building



 


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