Boulevard of Dreams : : Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx /

Boulevard of Dreams : : Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx / / Constance Rosenblum.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Rosenblum, Constance,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 44 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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
  • About the Author

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