Plan to Build Thousands of Apartments Will Transform the East Bronx

The New York Times ^ | Aug. 15, 2024, 4:58 p.m. ET | Matthew Haag

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The New York City Council unanimously approved a plan that would radically transform a section of the Bronx, replacing low-slung industrial buildings with thousands of new apartments as the city contends with its worst housing shortage since the late 1960s.

The rezoning plan will remake a 46-block corridor around the Morris Park, Van Nest and Parkchester areas, adding about 7,000 housing units near four new commuter rail stations, which are scheduled to be completed by 2027. In the years that follow a new neighborhood would emerge, made up primarily of mid- and high-rise residential towers.

The plan is the latest rezoning to take place in the Bronx, the poorest borough in the city, whose southern neighborhoods have been transformed in recent years by the march of new construction and high-rise rentals. This effort targets a slice of the East Bronx that now has very few residents — just 637 — and aligns with the Adams administration’s blueprint of encouraging new housing in pockets of New York City, including in areas currently filled with manufacturing sites.

Compared with the rest of the city, the Bronx has avoided the expansion of large-scale development that has overhauled Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. Yet developers have been eager to push into what is considered the city’s last frontier.

“The Bronx is saying ‘yes’ to more housing in our backyards, communities and neighborhoods, and serving as a model to the rest of our city on how to lead from the front,” Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, said in a statement. “I am calling on our partners in the City Council to join us in this fight and deliver on the promise that working-class families are asking us to do: build more and make this city more affordable.”

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The New York City Council approved a rezoning plan that will produce nearly 7,000 housing units, some of which will be offered at below-market rents, near four new commuter rail stations.

London-style Moslem "no-go zones" comin' right up!

[Muhammy]

rent dual Dillon MiNiguns
PAVEMENT APE REDUCTION ACT!

[ponygirl]

15 minute city.

[ponygirl]

If they destroy all the industrial areas, where will all these people work? Hmm? 🤔

[BenLurkin]

A place to house the people we pay to practice multigenerational bastardy.

[Chode]

time to read Fountainhead again...

[Gaffer]

Thousands and thousands of apartments for new illegals

[PeterPrinciple]

The New York City Council approved a rezoning plan that will produce nearly 7,000 housing units, some of which will be offered at below-market rents, near four new commuter rail stations.

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Is this a new idea or has it been done before?

[fruser1]

including in areas currently filled with manufacturing sites

So the Big Arsehole wants to rezone manufacturers out of business?

Sounds like an improper taking, but what's the Constitution to leftists.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Pruitt-Igoe. Cabrini-Green. Pink Houses...

[Governor Dinwiddie]

DC Mayor Marion Barry built some new housing built for the "natives". The Washington Post went there a year after the units were occupied, and examined a one year old new unit.

The Washington Post found a broken bathtub full of feces. The Post found holes punched in the walls. They found rats crawling in and out of open cereal boxes. This new unit was completely trashed.

[Macho MAGA Man]

Call them Wetback Burrows!

[SamAdams76]

I work in New York City and the amount of construction there is insane. Over the past 10 years, Long Island City (Queens) and downtown Brooklyn have built more skyscrapers than most other major cities and now have their own skylines rivaling Manhattan across the East River.

[kenmcg]

Same old s—t, just more projects to decay.

[Mark]

All promised BEFORE the election. Then things change.

[T.B. Yoits]

Real Estate development in Democrat cities is for laundering money.

An "overseas" corporation buys property with drug money and then borrows against it to obtain legitimate money.

From 2021: https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/a-kleptocrats-dream-us-real-estate-a-safe-haven-for-billions-in-dirty-money-report-says/

New rule from February 2024: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-seeks-crack-down-real-estate-money-laundering-new-rule-2024-02-07/

[Reno89519]

More public-funded housing. More crime.

If they are going to build, why don't they try converting empty office towers into a new version of loft apartments?

[thinden]

Caracas del Norte

[AZJeep]

Funny, everybody is moving out of NYC and they have the worst housing shortage, ever?!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Instant slum.