Permits have been filed for a six-story residential building at 576 Prospect Avenue in Mott Haven, The Bronx. Located at the intersection of Fox Street and Prospect Avenue, the lot is near the East 149th Street subway station, served by the 6 train. Shmili Frenkel is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The proposed 60-foot-tall development will yield 17,184 square feet designated for residential space. The building will have 33 residences, most likely rentals based on the average unit scope of 520 square feet. The concrete-based structure will not have any accessory parking.
Navkiran Cheema of KMA Designs LLC is listed as the architect of record.
Demolition permits have not been filed yet. An estimated completion date has not been announced.
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I’m not saying that solving the housing crisis doesn’t justify demolishing some low-rise homes, but if these homes are going to be demolished I wish they could at least be replaced with well more than 6 stories.
Ideally but still a major improvement. This kind of thing around the city adds up.
I wonder if the lot width was the constraint considering the current land value and expected costs.
I’m glad to see these late 1980s-00s era rowhouses get picked off.
Six story apartment house is the predominant Bronx vernacular. I have no problem whatsoever with this early 90’s dreck biting it to bring things full circle to a pre-fires built environment. This lot size limited it’s size anyways. It’s not as if they could have built 12 stories and 75k sq ft but didn’t – this is the likely zoning max here. Neighborhood upzoning is another issue. There needs to be conversation about making sure that many South Bronx streets where post-fires SFH and inappropriate low density is redeveloped at full potential. In many cases that would mean making sure that at minimum 5-6 floor residential is returned to lots where it once existed, not squandered with low unit count strutures. In other cases it may be appropriate to pursue taller max building heights turning a lot that would have seen 30 units into one that could host 75.
I remember when those homes were under construction in the early 90s and finished! My dad would always drive through there, and we’d stop at the video store that used to be there. He even toyed with the idea of buying one of the houses but it never happened.
Why Is Everyone So Anxious to Tear Down All Single Family Homes?
Wasn’t The American Dream to Own your Own Home?
Now the American Dream is to Rent Your Own Apartment!
This two-unit rowhouse was once part of the site of multiple much larger apartment buildings. After they those apartment buildings were abandoned they were likely acquired by the city and the land was sold to a developer. They split up the lots and built these cheap, two-unit rowhouses to appeal to that kind of buyer who could not afford the suburbs or middle class areas of the city.
A lot, likely most, of these rowhouses are now completely rented out here and in similar neighborhoods, the original owners no longer live there.
This site is down the street from the subway and there is an enormous demand for housing. There’s nothing special about these rowhouses and it makes perfect sense to redevelop them into much larger apartment buildings.
Glad to see them go.
The US has more than enough SFH for people who want to obtain the “American Dream”. We needing housing supply for people in the city. If you want a SFH, that’s great! Try the suburbs.