The notion that the Grand Concourse could be turned into a long boulevard of talking trees — a tree museum, with trees connecting to oral guides of Bronx history — came to Katie Holten one day when she was traipsing along the boulevard near the Cross Bronx Expressway.
A tree-lined boulevard with old trees, lined with benches and dotted with outdoor coffee kiosks and some chess tables.
Air Force Two touched down in Kiev, a city with gracious boulevards, chestnut trees, and so many domed churches that the Bolsheviks declared it unfit to be a Communist capital.
(Designed by the Olmsted brothers in the late twenties, with Spanish Colonial Revival houses, wide boulevards, magnolia trees, and a quaint shopping district, it eventually became the cultural hub of black Los Angeles. Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Charles both lived there at one time; John Singleton and Tavis Smiley have offices there now).
There are stretches near my home in the West 100's that have left their prosaic, drugstore-infused selves behind and become instead beautiful sylvan boulevards, with trees lining both sides of the crowded sidewalk, sometimes two or three rows deep.
He leans back in his chair, rubs his hands, strokes His beard and says, "I'm thinking of Strand, I'm thinking That one of these days I'll be out back, swinging my scythe Or holding my hourglass up to the moon, and Strand will appear In a jacket and tie, and together under the boulevards' Leafless trees we'll stroll into the city of souls.
A project called Boulevard 41, a tree-lined boulevard on 41st Street from Broadway to Sixth Avenue, with plantings, seating, tables and programming, is under consideration and could open in spring 2014.
And along with it, public roads will be expanded into wide boulevards with tree-lined sidewalks.
This becomes amply obvious as you stroll down the boulevards with tree-lined medians and the flower bedecked side streets of this bustling city, which is undergoing a beautification campaign with fountains, bridges, playgrounds and parks.
