"Echo Park (Bronx): An early view of the small park on the west side of Valentine Avenue, between East Tremont and East Burnside Avenues, ca.1900." This park was called Echo Park for more than a hundred years due to the echo that can be heard between the two large rock masses that monopolize the landscape. The park was renamed Richman Park in 1973 to honor Julius J. Richman, who served on Mayor Lindsey's West Bronx Neighborhood Task Force and was chairman of the Twin Parks Association and the Urban Action Task Force. In 1997 the 'Echo' part of the original name was added back parenthetically.

2050 Grand Concourse, ca. 1910. By the early 20th century the Lodge #871 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of The Bronx was one of the largest community of Elks in the city. Needing a larger space, they commissioned architect James Riely Gordon, who created a Italian Renaissance style clubhouse. The building's design included a clubroom, lounging room, billiard room, library, Secretary's room, buffet, a gallery that sat 670, and a roof garden. The Elks remained in this building until the 1980s. Later tenants included a local non-profit, but the building was abandoned by 1995. In 2008, St. Barnabas Hospital announced plans to demolish the old Elks Lodge and erect a 10-story facility on the site. As of spring 2018 the lot is empty and overgrown with a 'for sale' sign on the fence.

2121 Grand Concourse, 1936. Designed by the architect of so many Grand Concourse Art Deco apartment houses, Horace Ginsbern, 2121 is called by the AIA Guide to New York City "the most stylish on the Concourse." The zigzag facade and corner wrapping windows are visually striking in a way that even the other sleek, classy Art Deco buildings on the Concourse can not compare. Don McGregor, a graphic novel pioneer and Marvel Comics writer and editor (he is well known for his work on the Black Panther) once lived here.

St. Barnabas Hospital, Home for Incurables, 1932 The hospital is the oldest care facility in New York City. Established after the end of the Civil War in 1866, the hospital was one of the first homes for people with chronic diseases or mental illnesses. These people could not be treated in a regular hospital due to risk of infection from other contagious diseases, like pneumonia or tuberculosis. St. Barnabas Hospital for Incurables (later renamed St. Barnabas Hospital for Chronic Diseases) moved from its original location to its current, much larger site in 1874, in order to accommodate more patients. A third of the hospital’s patients were treated without charge, so the institution received sponsorship from high-profile donors, including Cornelius Vanderbilt and Theodore Roosevelt. The hospital continued its expansion intermittently from 1926 through 2015, adding more beds, facilities, programs, and residential areas.