Danny the Lyrical Libeskind went uptown on Saturday to participate in the opening salvo of the Bronx Museum’s year-long program, “Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100”. Unfortunately, we didn’t. We went on Friday. Which was terrific, featuring as it did a panel studded with such Bronxologists as Times City editor Constance Rosenblum. La Roseblum knows from the Grand Concourse: her book, Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, is due from NYU Press in August. She batted around the history of the Boogie Down with SUNY’s Ray Bromley and Fordham’s Mark Naison among others, peppering her talk with anecdotes about famous local buildings like the Grand Concourse Plaza Hotel and illustrious Bronxites like David Halberstam.

So, um, what happened with Libeskind? The nice thing about DL is that you can probably guess what it was without having to see it yourself: a lilting, affecting tribute, combining equal parts insight, sentiment, and outright sclock. Ashamed as we are for having missed him, we (and you) can still redeem our(your)selves. Upcoming events in the “Intersections” series include an appearance by Vito Acconci, which we do not intend to miss: like Libeskind, we know pretty much what we’re going to get, but in Acconci’s case we’ve come to expect the unexpected. Count us in.