Michael Kimmelman was not the only one writing about Via Verde yesterday. The Architect's Newspaper also has a report on the revolutionary South Bronx public housing complex done by architects Grimshaw and Dattner Architects and developers Jonathan Rose and Phipps Houses. Read More
Once filled with doorman apartment buildings with opulent lobbies, the strip lost quite a bit of its cache and luster in the urban Read More
The Bloomberg administration today launched an initiative to overhaul a portion of the South Bronx, as the Department of City Planning began the public review for its “Lower Concourse” rezoning. The proposed plan would allow for about 3,400 new apartments in a 30-block area surrounding the southern end of the Grand Concourse, which sits south Read More
Here’s four areas (and one borough) where buyers would be fools to rush in now.
1. MANHATTAN In Manhattan, Read More
Much of SoBro's residential housing Read More
Traditionally, there has been a trade-off perceived between protecting the environment and economic growth. But sustainability analysts reject this trade-off and argue that economic growth requires effective environmental stewardship. According to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, “green is the new red, white and blue.”
In his article “The Power of Green,” Friedman argues that green Read More
Majora Carter, founder of Sustainable South Bronx, tells New York magazine that she doesn't much care for the man some call New York's modern-day Robert Moses, Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff: It's interesting that you group Doctoroff and Moses together. Do you think the deputy mayor sees himself as the new Moses? Oh, God, Read More
Thursday night's panel on "Lessons of Robert Moses" at the Museum of the City of New York opened with the patina that the man did, at least, get things done--and that we have figured out how to do so without breaking as many eggs as Mr. Moses did. But this Bloombergian consensus was shattered Read More
Later today Mike Bloomberg is taking Houston Mayor Bill White on what City Hall is calling a "learning tour" of some of the city's more successful housing projects in Harlem and the South Bronx. He's the latest of the country's mayors to make the pilgrimage to New York to talk to Bloomberg. The visit Read More
Mmmm ... The Bronx! It's sometimes not until new development starts threatening a blighted area, and lots of eyeballs are focused on it from the outside, that neighborhoods develop their own organizations to improve conditions. Meet the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance: Our neighborhoods are saturated with junkyards, waste transfer stations, brownfields, and truck-dependent, polluting Read More
Sheldon Solow's development near Robert Moses Park, the privatization of a public park planned for the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, the mounting constructions in downtown Manhattan, and the fight for public parks over market space in the South Bronx: The overtaking of public spaces by private investors and developers has become a regular routine Read More
Bloomberg’s State of the City Mayor Bloomberg’s State of the City address won praise from leading Democrats as well as Republicans, and with good reason. It outlined an ambitious agenda grounded in everyday reality, not in divisive ideology. Rather than rest on his achievements, the Mayor is pressing forward to new challenges. As he begins Read More
The developer who brought Chelsea Market to Manhattan now wants to replicate it in the South Bronx. Irwin Cohen, who introduced Manhattan to the concept of “food purveyors,” is floating a plan to build a new home for 16 ethnic food merchants who are about to get kicked out of the Bronx Terminal Market. The Read More
Campaign blogs are, it's increasingly clear, generally a bad idea. Mostly because nobody reads them -- except your opponent's researchers. As in this release from the Bloomberg campaign: FERRER: WRONG ON HIS OWN RÉSUMÉ Ferrer personally wrote blog item telling voters that he was "educated in public schools for most of my education" - an Read More
Crain's is reporting that the Fulton Fish Market's move to the Bronx is being delayed yet again. The Bronx fish market, which will supposedly generate 700 jobs in the borough and $1 billion in economic activity to the South Bronx, was supposed to be up in a few weeks' time. Janel Patterson, the flack Read More
