School

Across the Bronx the School sits on Grand Concourse, a spine of storefronts and storefronts remade again and again, yet the institutional heft remains. At 500 Grand Concourse, this branch of Bronx education stretches corridors into classrooms, studios, labs, even evenings filled with lectures and performances. Figures in quiet conversation drift into the lobby, then peel off toward workshops tucked behind glass doors. Between classes you’ll find clusters of majors console in the open atrium, then scatter for group critiques in airborne mezzanines. Give the main line a ring or follow the map threads online. Dial the switchboard at (718) 530-6000 to cut through the echo—voicemail bounces calls to the right desk. When the Interborough Rapid grinds south from Kingsbridge, the 4‑train rolls east to 167th Street, and you’re barely a block away. Head inside, look up at the ceiling fans caught between layers of old plaster and fresh drywall, and pick your next corridor.