Excavation crew on East 165th Street, just west of Grand Concourse; November, 1928.

The IND Concourse Line, which runs under Grand Concourse, was completed in 1933.

The buildings visible in the background are all east of Grand Concourse. At right is the Ursuline Academy, described in 1915 as "a small boarding and day school" with an enrollment of "about eighty-five girls." The school occupied this site from 1910-1959, when it was razed and replaced with the high rise Executive Towers apartment complex.

The apartment building furthest in the background is 1050 Carroll Place. The buildings at left, on the north side of East 165th Street, were razed by the 1950s. The Young Israel of the Concourse synagogue was completed on the site in 1961. In 1982, the synagogue, by then abandoned, was purchased by the city, and converted for use by the Bronx Museum of the Arts.