Construction is nearing completion on North Cove, a 30-story residential building at 3875 Ninth Avenue on the Harlem River waterfront in Inwood, Manhattan. Designed by Aufgang Architects and developed by Maddd Equities, the 295-foot-tall structure will span 544,000 square feet and yield 611 affordable rental apartments. The project will also include 60,000 square feet of lower-level retail space, residential amenities, and 120 parking spaces. The property is alternately addressed as 373 and 375 West 207th Streets and is bounded by West 207th Street, Ninth Avenue, and the Harlem River.
The building was constructed to its pinnacle and almost entirely enclosed in its façade since our last update in early February 2024, when the reinforced concrete superstructure had recently passed the halfway mark. The following photos show the look of the tower’s red and beige brick exterior and grid of rectangular windows with black metal spandrels. Some scaffolding remains standing around the lower levels as crews finish installing the floor-to-ceiling glass panels.
3875 9th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
3875 9th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
3875 9th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
3875 9th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
3875 9th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
3875 9th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
3875 9th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
3875 9th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
3875 9th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
3875 9th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
3875 9th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
The property was formerly vacant, as seen in the below aerial image from before construction broke ground.
Aerial view of development site at 3875 9th Avenue
Joy Construction Corporation and Maddd Equities are completing the project with the help of $288 million in financing secured in 2023. Wells Fargo’s Community Lending and Investment provided the financial package, which includes a $155 million letter of credit to back NYC-issued tax-exempt bonds arranged by CLI Debt. The remaining $133 million was provided by CLI Equity as an equity investment through the purchase of Low Income Housing Tax Credits and New York State Brownfield Redevelopment Tax Credits.
Residential amenities at North Cove will include bicycle storage, recreation rooms, shared laundry facilities, outdoor lounge and recreation spaces, and picnic areas. The property will also offer public access to an adjacent waterfront park on land provided by the city.
The nearest subway is the local 1 train at the elevated 207th Street station to the west.
YIMBY expects North Cove to finish construction this summer.
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No parking lots of traffic what joy. How many entrances/exits? So like an office building. What happened to style…
Massive neighborhood change about to happen. 2025 version of 1950’s “Project Architecture.”
Wasted opportunity
When in doubt, add another color of brick…
Hideous. Will there actually be a North Cove park on the river? No indication of one.
I am really surprised by the badness of this. Aufgang usually is a reliably good firm and this is just a trainwreck. So many tacky brick choices… bizarre massing… This could have been just a simple two-tower glass and paneled design and it would have been tremendously better. I suppose the “community” got to the developer and insisted it look “more like existing Inwood”. The density is awesome. Shocking really… if you told someone 30 or even 20 years ago something like this would be built up there. But the architecture is just ghastly. No idea what they were thinking here. Obviously this is being developed on the cheap but there’s really no excuse. This could have easily been much better with just material/color choices.
Hopefully they will eventually make a beautiful waterfront.
Regarding the design, the consolation for me is that this is significantly better than the way all-affordable buildings were built in the 1960s and 1970s. (Example: the brutalist monstrosity at 747 Tenth Ave in Hells Kitchen.)
Yes, that building is depressing. How does that stuff get built in NYC?
Another forgettable brick building. All affordable housing projects seem to be ugly, uninspiring brick buildings – which means lots of local law 11 scaffolding for months. It’s NYC, we need our buildings to be special. I believe there are architects who can build something that’s both attractive and affordable. Where are they?
Getting underbid by Badaly and Caliendo?
😦..🤔🫢…🤢🤮, Lord have mercy!, WHY!?, the hideous “housing projects style from the 60’s”, you CAN build affordable without looking THIS REPUGNANTLY UGLY!!!,this bldg is an aesthetic VEXATION of the human spirit
Attza Latta Brix
UGLY and immediately looks dated.
We need way more very large apartment buildings of this size range across the outer boroughs.
this looks like it was built and design in the 60s
Ugly is too much of a compliment to this awful design.