YIMBY recently checked in on the progress of three mid- and high-rise residential buildings under construction in Bedford Park, The Bronx. The sites are all located near the Grand Concourse and within walking distance of the Bedford Park Boulevard subway station.
Construction is rising on 3099 Villa Avenue, a high-rise residential building between East 203rd Street and Bedford Park Boulevard. Designed by Rise Architecture, the structure will yield 95 units with an average scope of 1,225 square feet.
While the most recent permit filings indicate a 13-story height, the following photos show the reinforced concrete superstructure built to the 16th story. It is unclear how tall the building will eventually stand, or whether the unit count has also been expanded.
3073 Villa Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
3073 Villa Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
3073 Villa Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
3073 Villa Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
3073 Villa Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
3073 Villa Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
The property was formerly occupied by two low-rise residential buildings at 3071 and 2073 Villa Avenue, as seen in the below Google Street View image from before their demolition.
The new building is slated for completion in the spring of 2028.
3073 Villa Avenue. Image via Google Maps.
Work is nearing completion on 225 Bedford Park Boulevard, a nine-story residential building at the corner of Bedford Park Boulevard and Valentine Avenue. Designed by Badaly Architects and developed by Vilson Lumaj, the 84-foot-tall development yields 73 rental units with an average scope 664 square feet, as well as a cellar level and a 30-foot-long side yard.
The following photos show the exterior fully complete with the exception of the ground level, which remains blocked off by wooden fencing and construction equipment. The façade is composed of beige paneling surrounding a grid of large rectangular windows. Interiors are well underway at this point, and YIMBY expects work to fully wrap up this spring.
225 Bedford Park Boulevard. Photo by Michael Young.
225 Bedford Park Boulevard. Photo by Michael Young.
225 Bedford Park Boulevard. Photo by Michael Young.
225 Bedford Park Boulevard. Photo by Michael Young.
The property was formerly occupied by three low-rise residential buildings, as seen in the below Google Street View image from before their demolition.
225 Bedford Park Boulevard. Image via Google Maps.
Foundations are underway at 213 East 202nd Street, the site of a six-story residential building between Grand Concourse and Valentine Avenue. Designed by Bayside Engineering for BP E 202 BX LLC, the 50-foot-tall structure will yield 19 rental units with an average scope of 512 square feet. The project will also include 1,326 square feet of commercial space and a rear yard, according to permits filed in August 2024.
The following photos show the concrete slab, perimeter walls, and cores formed, with rebar protruding at the locations of the forthcoming inner columns and walls. YIMBY expects construction to begin rising above street level sometime this spring.
213 East 202nd Street. Photo by Michael Young.
213 East 202nd Street. Photo by Michael Young.
The preliminary elevation diagram from the info board depicts a straightforward massing with a simple fenestration and a bulkhead set back from the street. It is unclear what materials will be used for the façade.
213 East 202nd Street. Photo by Michael Young.
The property was formerly occupied by a vacant low-rise residential building, as seen in the below Google Street View image from before the start of demolition. The new building is slated for completion in the winter of 2026, as noted on site.
213 East 202nd Street. Image via Google Maps.
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Dear gawd, Badaly isn’t just Bad, they might be the worst. Are developers really this ignorant?
It’s pretty shocking. And bewildering. And enraging.
And just really unfortunate.
Their work is like a disease of ugliness that keeps spreading – infecting new areas.
I can’t really add anything else I haven’t already said before.
Not every building has to be beautiful but that doesn’t mean it’s ok when a building is flat out ugly. A lot of the new builds in Queens and especially in Brooklyn seem like they’re taking a lot more care into design even when in low-income neighborhoods; e.g. The Highland in Cypress Hills or 1911 Atlantic Ave in Bed-Stuy.
225 Bedford Park Boulevard is hideous to me. It looks like hospital buildings from the 60’s. And 213 East 202nd Street doesn’t seem like it’s gonna be a looker either. It’s a shame honestly.
A sickening shame.
Pissesme me off when there are hundreds of really talented struggling young architects out there and you have commissions repeatedly going to clown shows like Badaly.
I hope the project in the works next door where the other SFH’s were goes out of their way towards an attractive building to make this incompetent abomination look even worse.
What kills me is this is a really visible site. It’s not like it’s hidden on a side street like the one on Aqueduct featured yesterday or the one across the street from it.
What we are seeing more and more of — and the city really needs to tighten up basic requirements here — is developers, in an effort to save as much on construction cost/squeeze more dollars out of the turnip, foregoing even the most basic brick facade material and using horrible banal materials like painted EIFS and Soviet-style snap together concrete panels.
Too many buildings going up in the Bedford Park area without consideration for parking space and simply over crowding. The current buildings in this area are typically in the 6 -8 story height range. Why are the new buildings do out of sync? Too many people in one average sized area with inadequate parking spaces and limited open space for recreation or nature. Trees and grass anyone?
“Trees and grass anyone.”
Yvonne, you do realize the New York Botanical Garden is LITERALLY like a 10-15 minute walk to the east, right? And the sites these projects are being built on used to be former homes. I would complain even more if these new structures were being built as parking garages than new places to live.
Area is so dense they should ban private passenger cars from some of those streets. They could plant more trees in the street and keep a single lane for municipal vehicles.
And having a car without an off street parking space in that area is a major headache. I don’t get it.
BAD-aly should have their “architecture” certification REVOKED!😑🤢🤮😡🤬
There is a certain point where bland and cheap architecture becomes detrimental to the community. Im glad we are saying yes to building housing but is it too much to ask for a little inspiration?
those beautiful homes were sacrificed for this lcd institutional eyesore garbage that is going to bring down property values.
Investing in real estate, by definition, increases property values. Nowhere in NYC has decreasing property values today.
A once Irish neighborhood succumbing to the gimme dat crowd.