From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 5:19:03 PM UTC-5, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > I came across a 1982 article by Avery Corman about growing up on the Grand   
   Concourse in the Bronx, and returning for a isit in 1988.  At that time he   
   found mixed conditions--some restored buildings, but many vacant lots and   
   abandoned buildings, too.   
   >   
   > I also read Penny Marshall's memoir, and she grew up there, too.  She loved   
   it.   
   >   
   > In more recent times, I asked some folks about visiting the area today and   
   they recommended against it due to crime.   
   >   
   > Would anyone have any observations about the area today?  Thanks.   
      
   The southern end -- south of the Courthouse -- is the new Williamsburg. It may   
   already be too late to grab an old fixer-upper. And there are blocks of the   
   same kinds of brownstones as on the UWS, Harlem, and parts of Brooklyn.   
      
   Many of the grand old apartment houses that went up as the subway was built   
   are being renovated for coops, but that movement hasn't gotten all the way   
   north yet.   
      
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