Bronx Museum of the Arts

Who needs a Broadway when you have a Grand Concourse? Finished in 1909, the Bronx’s most famous thoroughfare turned this broad north–south stripe of the western Bronx into a New York Champs-Élysées, with art-deco buildings that have housed the wealthiest of Bronx residents (including Babe Ruth). After WWII, many locals rushed for the suburbs, and the area is now home to many Latin Americans and African Americans. In one or two walk sessions, you could walk up the full 4½ miles – past many architectural highlights. At 165th St is the interesting Bronx Museum of the Arts, with many urban-art exhibits.