From The Peopling of New York City
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As its name tells, Grand-concourse was really a grand place; at least to me that was what the first impression of the other side of south Bronx was like. Frankly, I was astonished by the richness of the town and the fact that this was what Bronx was like before. Even though I have read history of the past and seen pictures of the prosperity of the Bronx, those informations looked just too trivial and I thought the Bronx supporter’s fabrication to improve the bad reputation of the south Bronx at that moment. After getting off the train, with the guide Anthony Greene’s enthusiastic explanation about the very spot where we were standing, I could start tasting the luxurious part of the South Bronx. Starting from the grand concourse post office, the big buildings and the wide roads reminded me of the pictures of the grand concourse in the past in the book. Unlike what was in the black and white old picture, everything exuded its liveliness and a scent of richness remained from the past.
As walking further towards the Yankees Stadium, I could see better view of the town; maybe it was because I was going up to the hills where so-called ‘rich people’ lived together. On the bridge, it was easier to see the class distinction in the small town in the past. It just reminded me of Riverdale, the place I live, where still the borderline between ‘Up the hill’ and ‘Under the hill’ exists. Across the street from my house is Kingsbridge and few steps around my house is Riverdale where people claim that it is just Riverdale never belongs to Bronx. Its opulence and peacefulness of Riverdale to lousy and unkemptness of Kingsbridge is clearly different and you get to realize the difference even more when you look at the prices of real estates. Ironically, the similarities are not only those. The amenities of the town and their convenient locations such as a public park located ‘on the hill.’ For me, subconsciously comparing those two made me to see the on-going history itself. Was I supposed to be sad in knowing that there was a class structure between immigrants? I would say ‘not at all,’ because it still goes on and I got to know that it just what happens when different people happen to live in a same area no matter how much our cultural tolerance can increase in our mind.
Another sight captured my eyes was the genuine architecture of the building. For its artistic view, it occurred to me that the atmosphere of the Grand- concourse resembles the upper west Manhattan or vice versa. However, the grand concourse still retained its beauty and I was very happy when I heard from Mr.Greene that the government have been working on improving the Grandconcourse.
By and large, exploring the south Bronx earned me an idea that having a prejudice even before going through it is not a good mindset to live in New York city where everything changes or at least have potential capacity of changing and within the change, the remainders still retains its grandiosity and waits for people to come by. I feel bad for those people with bad perception about the South Bronx and had not paid attention, for that they had missed a great part of tasting the original wealth of New York.
