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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Well, it all depends.

In my neighborhood in Philadelphia, we’ve added about 1,200 high rise units. Off street parking, green spaces, gyms, etc. as well as retail/grocery/restaurant businesses. It’s been an absolute Blessing.

OTOH, if the city encouraged section 8 or HUD housing, it would have destroyed a neighborhood.

Now, my neighborhood is just a mile from city hall and walking/biking/public transit is very attractive for limp-wristed, dope smoking, deep blue hippies.

All I really “know” about The Bronx is that it’s to the north of Manhattan, or so I’ve come to believe. Maybe it’ll become a desirable neighborhood to Manhattan workers, I couldn’t say.

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Interesting idea, but a lot of office spaces are little more than cube farms. You'd have the exterior that wouldn't need to be changed much, but to divide all that floor space, install kitchens, bathrooms, closets etc. We're looking at a pretty spendy proposition.

Someone smarter than I am will figure this out, God Bless Capitalism!

[VTenigma]

Cabrini Green East

[A strike]

“I couldn’t say..”
suggest you look up : Schiff from Shinola

[Repeat Offender]

No have yob

[Gaffer]

Many decades ago, I was working a late night mid shift with a buddy senior NCO of mine. We got to talking about what/who has the best position in life. He said, “I’d either want to be a full bird colonel or a black Airman basic 9E1).”

The colors and the trappings of status have changed but the basic tenet survives. It’s now, filthy rich or illegal just arrived in this country.

[umbagi]

Reckon they’ll keep English as the nominal primary language?

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suggest you look up : Schiff from Shinola

I suggest you look up an erstwhile, sleepy, little burg called "Brooklyn".

[grumpygresh]

NYC has not been an industrial area for a long time. Too expensive- taxes, overpriced land values, poor connections/bottlenecks, increased employment costs, regulation.

[chris haney]

Good luck with that

[Mr. Blond]

Better to keep them in shiny projects/prisons than to disperse them into our neighborhoods. Just sequester them as best you can.

[clearcarbon]

"Plan to Build Thousands of Apartments Will Transform the East Bronx"

[shoff]

The New York City Council, and Mayor Eric Adams rushed back to City Hall after making large land purchases with new found cash to unanimously approved a plan that would radically transform a section of the Bronx.

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