– Loew's Paradise Theater (NYCL; built 1929) 2516-2530 Grand Concourse – Dollar Savings Bank Building (NYCL; built 1932–33, 1937–38, and 1949–52; architect Adolf L. Muller of Halsey, McCormack & Helmer). The 10-story headquarters of the Dollar Dry Dock Savings Banks (now liquidated), it contains a clock tower at its top. 2640 Grand Concourse – Poe Cottage, the last home of Edgar Allan Poe (NRHP, NYCL; built 1812; architect John Wheeler) Grand Concourse Historic District In 2011, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Grand Concourse from 153rd to 167th Streets as part of the Grand Concourse Historic District. The State of New York had previously nominated the buildings at 730–1000, 1100–1520, 1560, and 851–1675 Grand Concourse for listing on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district. In popular culture On the 1970s hit sitcom Rhoda, Rhoda Morgenstern's parents Martin and Ida Morgenstern lived on the Grand Concourse. The historic 1974 episode "Rhoda's Wedding" showed actress Valerie Harper (as Rhoda) running through the Bronx in her wedding gown, and running across the Grand Concourse into her parents' building. It was shot on location. The Fordham Road-Concourse area and Krum's soda fountain are featured in Avery Corman's The Old Neighborhood novel. In Jacob M. Appel's story, "The Grand Concourse" (2007), a woman who grew up in the Lewis Morris Building returns to the Morrisania neighborhood with her adult daughter to discover the boulevard is far from how she remembers it. In Ayn Rand's Novel, "The Fountainhead," Peter Keating and Dominique Francon are driving to Connecticut to find a judge and get married. She tells him, "Get to the Grand Concourse. Fewer lights there." See also 1100 Grand Concourse Paradise Theater References Sources External links Art Deco architecture in the Bronx Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the Bronx New York City designated historic districts New York City Designated Landmarks in the Bronx Streets in the Bronx Works Progress Administration in New York City Neighborhoods in the Bronx