Construction is finished on Bruckner Heights, a two-building residential complex consisting of the seven-story 2070 Chatteron Avenue and nine-story 1017 Olmstead Avenue in Unionport, The Bronx. Designed by Aufgang Architects and developed by Azimuth Development Group, the conjoined structures yield a combined 330 rental units, with 274 units designated for affordable housing. The project also includes ground-floor commercial space. The property is bounded by Chatterton Avenue to the north, Bruckner Boulevard to the south, and Olmstead Avenue to the east.
The following photos show the completed exterior of 1017 Olmstead Avenue from Bruckner Boulevard and across the Bruckner Expressway. The façade is composed of red and gray brick framing a uniform grid of PTAC windows with black metal frames. The southeast corner features a light gray cementitious finish, the top two floors are clad in white paneling, and gray blocks surround the commercial windows on the ground floor along Bruckner Boulevard and Olmstead Avenue. The entrance is situated on Olmstead Avenue underneath a glass and metal canopy.
Bruckner Heights. Photo by Michael Young.
Bruckner Heights. Photo by Michael Young.
Bruckner Heights. Photo by Michael Young.
Bruckner Heights. Photo by Michael Young.
Bruckner Heights. Photo by Michael Young.
Bruckner Heights. Photo by Michael Young.
Bruckner Heights. Photo by Michael Young.
Bruckner Heights. Photo by Michael Young.
Bruckner Heights. Photo by Michael Young.
Bruckner Heights. Photo by Michael Young.
The below photos show 2070 Chatteron Avenue, which features a gray brick façade speckled with black bricks on front northern elevation. The entrance is located next to the enclosed parking garage entrance.
Bruckner Heights. Photo by Michael Young.
Bruckner Heights. Photo by Michael Young.
Bruckner Heights. Photo by Michael Young.
Bruckner Heights. Photo by Michael Young.
Bruckner Heights. Photo by Michael Young.
Portions of the top floors and the interior facing wall are clad in white EIFS.
Bruckner Heights. Photo by Michael Young.
The above rendering is an aerial perspective looking west at 1017 Olmstead Avenue, the taller of the two buildings. Below is a street-level rendering showing the shorter 2070 Chatterton Avenue along the northern end of the block.
Bruckner Heights, at 2070 Chatterton Avenue and 1017 Olmstead Avenue in Soundview, The Bronx via NYC Housing Connect
Apartments come in studio to three-bedroom layouts, and the affordable units are available to residents at 30 to 70 percent of the area median income (AMI).
Amenities at Bruckner Heights include indoor and outdoor recreation area, a community room, bicycle storage, shared laundry room, and on-site parking. Rent includes gas for heating and hot water. Tenants are responsible for electricity, including the electric stove.
The nearest subway from the ground-up development is the 6 train at the elevated Parkchester and Castle Hill Avenue stations to the north above Westchester Avenue. Several bus lines are also within close proximity of the property, including the BX5, BX22, Q44-SBS, BxM8, Bx36, and Bx39.
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Those ladders (?) from the roofs to the terraces are unexpected.
Can’t believe they omitted the ground floor windows on Chatteron Avenue. Long blank wall along the sidewalk there.
The good news is there isn’t a continuous cheap storefront like the rendering. Now there are appropriate columns between. Unfortunately there’s a lot of blank concrete wall that will need graffiti sealing pronto. And unfortunately there is no cornice overhang as the rendering shows and that’s a cheap shame. Finally, the extremely garish mixed brick on the back at least will help people find the garage doors. Ugh.
“And unfortunately there is no cornice overhang as the rendering shows and that’s a cheap shame.”
This will help it better blend in with all the other parapet defacements in the borough.
“Now there are appropriate columns between.”
Except they don’t line up with or seemingly have any relation to the facade fenestration above.
I’m a big fan of most of Aufgang’s designs, but this one is a real C- in my opinion.
Man the battlements!
A prison?
Yes, actually the new high rise ‘detention centers’ being built in each of the boroughs, look much less ‘prison like’ than this..
Could use some molding on the cornices…
A brick layer’s night mare
The red probably burned their retinas that’s for sure. This red brick is probably the brightest and most ghastly I’ve ever seen.
Wow. What a Nice New PROJECT ! Looks Brick 🙁
Big and not bad
I like the area,and how the building looks,it’s fix just right in the neighborhood
It’s beautiful