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Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100

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Having grown up on and around The Grand Concourse in the 1940's and 50's my expectations for this book were not met in many ways. The photos were dark, unclear, and, in my opinion, did not appear to be the result of any serious attempt at research for better ones. The layout of the book is poorly organized with more emphasis on architecture than history both from the point of view of how the Concourse came to be, inckudubg its detracters, and the many important and influential people who lived, went to school and played there. If this book is all that is available then I'm happy to have at least this much but the Concourse deserves a better researched, less slapped together account. There is more to tell just at the corner of The Concourse and Fordham Rd. than is contained in this entire book.

Stuart Yahm
P.S. 79 Creston Jr. High School
1944 - 1947
De Witt Clinton High School
1947 - 1950

If you think you are going to get photos or information about "intersections" on the Grand Concourse, you are wrong. This book is about some project that a team works on. Total waste of money and i am very sorry to have wasted my money on it, thinking I was adding to my collection of books about the Bronx.

I grew up in the Bronx in the 50's and 60's, a mere block from Tremont Avenue and The Grand Concourse. It was a great time to live in the wonderful borough of the Bronx. As a Bronxite, this book provides you with history of a place you know well, and offers you a bite of nostalgia that you didn't even know you were hungering for after all these years! I recommend this as "must read" for anybody that lived in the Bronx for any length of time.

One little section of New York can have so much history attached to it. "Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100" is a collection of essays by writers reflecting on The Grand Concourse, a specific set of roads in the Bronx section of New York. Writers draw on their own experiences filling the book with essays alongside full color photographs and historical drawings of the area. "Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100" is a solid coffee-table acquisition for New York lovers, recommended.