Learning about Risse Street Park’s ancestry is not exactly common knowledge to Norwood residents. In a few months, residents passing the tiny park will know the name. Pssst: it’s the grandfather of the Grand Concourse.

Tom Campanella, a Cornell University professor and city Parks Department Historian in Residence and his assistant, Zachary Falk, a student from Cornell University, have been tapped to draft a brief history of the Norwood park.

The findings will be included in a new signage slated to be installed by the Parks Department as part of its Historical Sign Program. The near 20-year program has acknowledged nearly every park, tracing the origins of each park, a biography of whom the park is named after, and other interesting facts.

Risse Street Park’s namesake comes from Louis Aloys Risse, a city engineer and Frenchman who designed the Grand Concourse in 1890. The park, less than an acre, is formally known as Risse Street Triangle. It rest appropriately on Risse Street, overlooking the northernmost section of the concourse near Jerome Avenue.

The sign is welcome news to members of Risse Street Community Garden, which primarily use the space to cultivate vegetables and other green plants. In a joint statement, members of the garden expressed pride the garden gets its name “after such an inspirational man who had the vision and gradeur to design such a magnificent boulevard giving our Bronx it’s very own Champs Elysees.”

“Highlighting Mr. Risse’s name will certainly help give our community a sense of pride and connection to the past,” the statement concluded.

Mosholu Parkway and Williamsbridge Oval Park are among those with historical signs. Risse Street Park represents some of the last few parks without a historical sign on display.

Campanella was unavailable for comment. A spokesperson with the city Department of Parks did not return emails seeking comment on when the sign would be unveiled.