The Stagg Group, an affordable housing developer concentrating on the Bronx, had a busy day yesterday with the DOB. Badaly & Badaly Architects filed permits for two residential buildings, likely below-market-rate, at 2346 Prospect Avenue and…
The West Bronx is teeming with affordable housing developments, and today’s is located in the Fordham section, between the Jerome Avenue elevated 4 train and the D on the Grand Concourse, just north of Burnside Avenue. On…
In March, during the press conference unveiling Mayor Bill de Blasio’s affordable housing plan, Brooklyn’s new borough president Eric Adams made it clear how he felt about new development: “Build, baby, build. Build tall, build high.” Taller…
For decades, East Tremont in the Bronx was one of the poorest neighborhoods in America, losing building stock at a rapid clip. First the devastation came at the hands of Robert Moses’s Cross-Bronx Expressway, and later to…
For about a century — since the tenement laws forbid the construction of the old railroad and dumbbell apartment buildings — for-profit, market-rate builders in New York City have largely shunned the poor. The city is still…
