We’re calling it: the South Bronx is in the midst of a market-rate boom – or at least, a boomlet. The corner of the city previously dominated by subsidized housing developers is finally seeing some…
As the recovery takes hold in the outer boroughs, certain Bronx neighborhoods – mainly those adjacent to Bronx Park and the parkways that radiate out from it – have seen a number of filings for…
Earlier this week, we brought you news of a new building permit filing for 1561 Walton Avenue, an affordable housing project just off the Grand Concourse and a block south of the Cross-Bronx Expressway, in…
Since 1981, when the city presumably seized the property for nonpayment of taxes, the land at 1561 Walton Avenue — in the Mount Eden section of the Bronx — has laid fallow. But assuming a permit filed yesterday…
In the late 1930s, developers started bouncing back from the Great Depression, and began building again in the Bronx. They filled in lots on the Grand Concourse with garden apartments in the Art Deco style, giving the borough some…
