VENUE: Located on the Grand Concourse — modeled on Paris’s Champs Elysées, but longer, and repository of the world’s largest collection of Art Deco residential buildings — between 161st-163rd Streets, facing Bronx Borough Hall to the south and just up the hill from Yankee Stadium, where you can stop in for amazing Spanish Caribbean food on East 161st Street and East 149th Street, both major public transportation hubs. Nearby attractions include Bronx Museum of the Arts.
FROM MANHATTAN: The BxM 4 Express Bus departs East 23rd St with many stops on the East Side of Manhattan. A comfortable hour-and-15 minute ride to 165th Street and Grand Concourse. FARE: $6.50 + free subway transfer.
VENUE: An easy walk from the Westchester Square/East Tremont Avenue train stop. Mostly residential with a high concentration of Puerto Rican establishments, now a rarity in the city, and excellent Mexican, Indian and Caribbean food as the central attractions near the train station.
FROM MANHATTAN: The BxM 6 Express Bus departs East 24th St., and Madison Avenue with many stops on the East Side of Manhattan. A comfortable hour-and-15 minute ride. FARE: $6.50 + free subway transfer.
VENUE: Morris Park is “The Bronx’s second Little Italy” for the last 100 years and the first Montenegrin/Albanian community in the US, later joined by Kosovë War refugees in the 90s; and now, “Little Yemen,” with a rise in Yemeni, West Africans, Bangladeshi and Indian communities, college students and young professionals. A foodie paradise, with old-fashioned bakeries and the novelty of the year, Italian Ice Cream cones, make it worth a full day’s adventure.
FROM MANHATTAN: The BxM 9 Express Bus departs East 24th St., and Madison Avenue with many stops on the East Side of Manhattan. A comfortable hour-and-15 minute ride. FARE: $6.50 + free subway transfer.