A rendering has been revealed for Crotona Residence, a six-story residential building at 720 East 187th Street in Belmont, The Bronx. Designed by IMC Architecture, the 34,000-square-foot structure will yield TK affordable housing units with an average scope of TK square feet. The project will also include ground-floor commercial space. The property is located at the intersection of East 187th Street and Crotona Avenue.
The rendering looks southwest at the building, which will feature a straightforward rectangular massing and an orderly grid of punched windows with protruding frames. The entire envelope above the ground floor will be adorned with an eye-catching mural composed of swirling black and white curvilinear patterns. The first story will feature gray brick framing floor-to-ceiling glass for the commercial space.
The property is currently vacant. The site was formerly occupied by a row of one-story storefronts, as seen in the below Google Street View image from before their demolition in 2019.
720 East 187th Street. Image: Google
The nearest subways stops from the ground-up development are the B and D trains at the Fordham Road station to the west and the 2 and 5 trains at the West Farm Square–Tremont Avenue station to the south. Also nearby is the Fordham train station on the Metro-North Railroad.
The project is expected to cost $11 million. A construction timeline has yet to be announced.
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Looks like the graffiti people got to the rendering. I like this mural and hope it proves durable.
My only concern is if the commercial space gets rented out to some cruddy business.
That’s different. I wonder what the mural substrate is.
Don’t get your hopes up, it’s probably EIFS (styrofoam stucco).
More likely custom printed pattern on metal panel I’d say.
Have you seen some if the other new styrofoam buildings around this area? My money’s on EIFS.
An historic “problem” with that area is that it is really “void” of access to the subway.
Both those subway lines are not exactly walking distance from the building. The one in West Farms may be a two-bus trip to the subway (not sure…it’s been a while).
Yeah those stops are definitely not close at all. The most accessible stop is Fordham Rd on the B/D which would require walking about 10 minutes to the Bx12 and taking that to the train. You could also take the Bx17 which is right outside the building south to the Prospect Ave 2/3 stop to avoid a long walk. Either way, the distance to the train isn’t ideal.
After we get past the Second Avenue Subway, IBX, and (hopefully) Queenslink, the MTA should consider expanding the network to areas that have high density but poor access to heavy rail. Southern Blvd is wide enough to support an extension of the 2/3 north of 173rd St to Fordham Rd and the catchment area of the stations would be super dense.
2/5 not 2/3. We’re talking about the Bronx here, not the UWS.
What the Bronx really needs is an extension of the 3 or the A from Upper Manhattan to cut west to east through the Bronx. The Bronx has plenty of north/south subways (and Metro North to the suburbs) but zero east/west connections. That’s a travesty. Travel east to west in The Bronx is almost as bad as driving in Manhattan cross town.
As to the Second Ave – remember it was originally supposed to go up into the Bronx to replace the old 3rd El. Nixed. The original IBX was rightly supposed to go into The Bronx to connect it directly to Queens and Brooklyn – bypassing Manhattan. Nixed. So what does that say the city and state feel about The Bronx. Yup. That’s why it remains the poorest borough. Neglect
Was this location previously known as 2405 Crotona Avenue?
It’s across the street. 2405 Crotona is the NW corner of the intersection, this is the SW corner.
I do like the patterned facade, but it’ll probably just get painted over after it fades.
LSD
I like the design of the building,it’s uplifts the area