Art Deco on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, Part 1

[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 architecture historian Anthony W. Robins focuses on the southern end of the Concourse. Highlights include the Bronx Post Office with its Ben Shahn murals; the monolithic Bronx County Building, now home to the borough’s government offices; Park Plaza Apartments, on Jerome Avenue, designed by Marvin Fine of the Horace Ginsbern firm as the borough’s first Art Deco apartment building; and 1150 Grand Concourse, the “Fish Building,” famous for its over-life-size fish mosaics. The tour includes hearing architects Marvin Fine and Israel Crausman talk about their work, in interviews with Tony taped 40 years ago. 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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