Empire State Development has invested $55 million to support the advancement of Fordham Landing South, a two-building affordable housing development in University Heights, The Bronx. The funding will enable infrastructure improvements and site preparation to support the mixed-use complex, which will rise along the Harlem River waterfront on an underused stretch of land just south of the University Heights Bridge.
Rendering of Fordham Landing, via onefordhamlanding.com.
Fordham Landing South will yield more than 900 new affordable homes, as well as a charter school, grocery store, underground parking, and approximately 3 acres of new public open space.
Rendering of Fordham Landing, via onefordhamlanding.com.
State funds will support infrastructure work including planning, design, construction, and site acquisition. The initiative follows the City of New York’s announcement in August 2025 and is part of Governor Hochul’s ongoing housing agenda, which includes new capital funding and policy measures to expand housing access statewide.
“After nearly four decades, we are finally unlocking the potential of this site and transforming it into something that serves the people of The Bronx,” said Assemblymember Yudelka Tapia. “This is about empowering families so they can live with dignity, put food on the table, and build a community where Bronx residents can live, work, and thrive.”
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And yet the housing crisis will continue exactly as before. There is seemingly unlimited demand to live in New York
what we need is MTA extension into jersey to alleviate the demand
That’s exactly what NYC does NOT need. Enabling an uncontrolled flood of NJ commuters into subway lines to the detriment of those living in NYC serves only NJ residents. NYC is already enabling the redevelopment / enlargement of the Port Authority Bus Terminal — again, for whom the benefits are overwhelmingly to the benefit of NJ commuters. As with all NYC commuters (LI, NJ, CT, Westchester, Orange, etc), better they have NYC subway / bus fares as an addition to their suburban commuter fees. Otherwise, by enabling an extension of NYC subway to NJ, you are providing a MUCH CHEAPER (and subsidized by NYS) means of access to NYC — something to which they are not entitled. Fine if suburban residents want to commute to NYC, but to suggest that they be granted a zero dollar, or greatly reduced commuter fee (effectively, the result of extending NYC subway beyond city borders) only serves to overload the NYC subway lines while not addressing needs of NYers. And if your suggestion to NYers is that they move to suburban NJ to resolve their housing needs, you will get a resounding “NO” as an answer.
There was talk about extending the 7 train straight through to NJ. What stopped it was that NYCT train operators would have to know FRA rules and with that would come with parity with railroad engineers. Also what would definitely happen would be since all T/O would be federal then that would mean they would transfer to regional railroads with higher pay. Also this scenario would qualify then for the BLE as well as a railroad pension thus negating their NYCERS pension. So yeah both the union AND management don’t want potential flight.
I lived not far from this location in the 1970s. It is rather isolated as the railroad tracks cut off the area from the “mainland.” I do not recall any supermarkets nearby other than across the bridge in Manhattan. Hopefully, a grocery will move into this complex.
It’s mixed use so there will be various commercial and community amenities within the complex, and there’s a supermarket right across the bridge.