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BRONX TIMES REPORTER, A 14 PRIL 12-18, 2019 BTR
Hip hop icon Slick Rick’s street sign was unveiled at last year’s ceremony. File Photo
Bronx Walk of Fame
anticipates a major overhaul
BY ALEX MITCHELL
The Grand Concourse Walk of
Fame that holds the names of 120
notable Bronxites could be getting
a much-needed spruce up on its
23-block span on the borough’s most
impressive thorougfare.
Currently, the yellow and brown
Bronx Walk of Fame street-pole signs
line the concourse from East 138th
Street to East 161st with names of inductees
put in no particular order.
That corridor has become quite
crowded over the years as more and
more famed Bronxites have received
recognition on the walk for their own
lifetime achievements.
“We put (their signs) where we
found space,” said Bronx Tourism
Council executive director Olga Luz
Tirado, who’s in charge of the Bronx
Walk of Fame.
She explained that where the concourse
begins on East 138th Street,
there are several blocks of auto body
repair shops, an area that’s not appropiate
for signs recognizing Bronx
greats such as Stanley Kubrick.
“You certainly don’t get much foot
traffi c down there,” she said.
Tirado is pushing to have the
Bronx Walk of Fame start at East
149th Street,the location of Hostos
Community College and the former
General Post Offi ce Building, then
continuing down to the Bronx Museumof
Art on East 165th Street. Calling
the area an economically vibrant
section of the concourse, Tirado continued
to explain that this proposed
re-zoning would also give the Bronx
Tourism Council an opportunity to
categorize inductees based on the
genre of their own recognition.
“Given the anticipation of the
Bronx’s hip-hop museum, we would
put the hip-hop artists down on East
149th Street,” Tirado said, mentioning
that its close proximity to hiphop
themed bar and restaurant Beatstro
also served as inspiration for that
idea.
“We could also put artists and
writers near the Bronx Museum
of Art, which would make perfect
sense,” Tirado continued.
Relocating the Bronx Walk of
Fame is only one component of the
revitalization plan, though.
The small, mustard yellow and
brown signs that designate each of
the inductees don’t exactly carry a
strong visual aesthetic, even for the
most devout Cleveland Browns fan.
Tirado wants to have all the street
signs re-designed in what she described
as “more prominent (design)
and in a lighter color.”
Since each individual street sign
costs about $500, just replacing the
current signs on the walk is a $60,000
dollar investment.
After her organization, which
is affi liated with the Bronx Overall
Economic Development Corp,
BOEDC, received the much needed
funding from Governor Cuomo, Tirado
is confi dent that her 5-year plan
will come to fruition.
An important aspect of Tirado’s
plan, if not more tangible than the
renovations, would be incorporating
a digital component to the Bronx
Walk of Fame.
“Creating a digital map to the
walk is one of the most important
pieces of what we’re trying to do,”
she said.
Developing an online, cross referencing
system that provides the
name and location of an inductee
along with a biography, is next on the
list of improvements for the tourism
council.
“We want to have a database that
can answer questions like how many
Jewish people are on the walk or how
many authors are there,” Tirado explained.
“We have people calling
with these requests anyway,” she
continued.
While the plan for the walk’s makeover
is still in the design phase, Tirado
and the Bronx Tourism Council
aim to unveil an entirely new Bronx
Walk of Fame by Bronx Week 2020.