NY Botanical Garden~Little Italy~ Subway with Kiara, April 7

 

Little Italy, Bronx, April 7

 

Bronx Museum ~Arthur Avenue~East 180th Street Station

Bronx Museum of the Arts

SANFORD BIGGERS: CODESWITCH

JOSÉ PARLÁ: IT'S YOURS

Mural near The Bronx Museum

On the way to The Bronx's Little Italy, Arthur Avenue

Calabria Pork Store on Arthur Avenue. Yummy Prosciutto!

Trattoria Tra Di Noi

Egidio Pastry & Cafe

East 180th Street Station

 

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