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…
Permits were recently filed for a 67-unit apartment building at 533 Bay Street in Stapleton, on Staten Island. Today, we’ve got a rendering, courtesy of Arker Companies, which is developing; Aufgang is the architect. As noted previously, the apartments…