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vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I A Promenade for the Bronx 2 1 “A Drive of Extraordinary Delightfulness” 15 2 “Get a New Resident for the Bronx” 41 3 “I Was Living in ‘a Modern Building’” 59 II The Golden Ghet to 2 4 “Something That Everybody Had in Awe” 87 5 “An Acre of Seats in a Garden of Dreams” 125 6 “By the Waters of the Grand Concourse” 141 7 The Grand Concourse of the Imagination 159 III To Hell and Back 2 8 “The Borough of Abandonment” 177 9 Who Killed the Concourse? 201 10 “Bends in the Road” 215 Sources 229 Bibliography 243 Index 253 About the Author 267 This page intentionally left blank ...

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