Concourse Towers, 1020 Grand Concourse: Review and Ratings

Review of 1020 Grand Concourse by Carter Horsley

This impressive, large, 23-story, white-brick building at 1020 Grand Concourse between 164^th and 165^th streets is one of the major apartment buildings in the Bronx. It was erected in 1963 and has 453 co-operative apartments.

It was designed by Philip Birnbaum, who would design many apartment towers in Manhattan.

It is quite close to the very striking Bronx Museum of the Arts, designed by Arquitectonica, and Yankee Stadium.  It is also close to 900 Grand Concourse which was designed in 1922 as the Concourse Plaza Hotel designed by Maynicke & Franke that was visited by many Presidents before being converted to a welfare hotel in the 1960s and a federal subsidized senior citizens’ residence in 1982.

It was formerly known as Executive Towers and its original brochure proclaimed it to be “the first luxury skyscraper in the Bronx” and as having a large fountain in its lobby. 

It is close to subways at 167^th Street.

Bottom Line

A large, white-brick, 1963 apartment building with curved balconies and a very dramatic, landscaped entrance with a curved marquee and a very broad, jagged entrance cornice with mosaic columns and fronts.

Description

The building has a curved, landscaped driveway with an arched entrance marquee beneath a very broad and dramatic entrance cornice with many sharply angled peaks with mosaic columns and fronts.

The building, which has discrete air-conditioners, has some curved balconies and its front façade has a broad curve with two rear wings.

Amenities

The building has a 24-hour doorman, a live-in superintendent, parking and a laundry.  Cats and dogs are allowed.

Apartments

Apartment 24F is a three-bedroom unit with an 8-foot-long entry foyer that leads to an 11-foot-long home office and a 23-foot-long living room with an 18-foot-wide, curved terrace and a 10-foot-wide, windowed kitchen.

Apartment 11B is a two-bedroom unit with a curved, 15-foot-wide entry foyer that opens onto a 21-foot-long living room with a 10-foot-wide dining alcove and a curved balcony and an enclosed 11-foot-long kitchen.

Apartment 5G is a two-bedroom unit with an 11-foot-wide entry foyer that leads in one direction to a 21-foot-long living room with a wide, curved terrace and in the other direction to a 9-foot-log dining area next to an open, windowed, 9-foot-long kitchen.

Apartment 8K is a one-bedroom unit with an 11-foot-wide entry foyer that opens onto a 21-foot-long living room and an 11-foot-long dining room with a terrace and an 10-foot-log enclosed and windowed kitchen.

Apartment 10B is a studio unit with a curved, 9-foot-wide entry foyer across from an angled 8-foot-long kitchen and a 22-foot-long living room with a 10-foot-square alcove.