This article was originally published on May 1, 2015 and we are republishing to note that sadly, Florinda “Fiore” Conte passed away on Sunday, December 1, 2019 and is now at rest with her late husband Vincenzo Mazzella.
Aniello Conte in his younger years.
On May 1, 1931, the Empire State Building opened to the public after 2 years of construction of the landmark, Art Deco building which remained the world’s tallest structure for almost 40 years.
But this isn’t about the building but about one of the men who helped build this monument to American ingenuity—Aniello Conte, an Italian, undocumented immigrant to America.
Aniello Conte, grandfather of Melrose native Civita Mazzella who now resides in Morris Park, was born in 1883 on the Italian island of Ponza, a rustic island who’s main industries back then were farming and fishing.
Mr Conte came to the United States and settled in the Melrose neighborhood of The Bronx, an area where many Ponzese had settled in the tenements that dotted the area. He lived where Christopher Court and Maria Lopez Plaza apartments currently stand on Morris Avenue between 150th and 152nd Streets.
Morris Avenue at 149th Street looking north into Melrose. The top picture was taken circa 1903 (credit unknown) and the bottom image was taken by Welcome2TheBronx in 2015. As you can see, all the buildings on the right-hand side still exist up until 152nd Street. Beyond that now is Alfred E. Smith HS’s athletic field, Melrose Houses and Andrew Jackson Houses of NYCHA. On the left hand side you see the tenements where Aniello Conte once lived and below they have been replaced with Michelangelo Apartments, Christopher Court Apartments, and Maria Lopez Plaza with Concourse Plaza Apartments looming in the distance.
As a young man, recently married and with children, there was little to no opportunities in his native Ponza to make a decent living so took his chance on America to make money to send back to his family.
You have to remember, this was during the Great Depression so you did what you could to survive. He took on odd jobs, whatever he could take, including as a junkman collecting scraps and taking them to junkyards to make a penny much like you see many undocumented residents doing today.
Eventually, between his trips from The Bronx to Ponza and back, he began work as a day laborer at the Empire State Building as a bricklayer, cement worker or whatever needed to be done just to get whatever wages he could for the day.
Aniello Conte, nonno di Civita Mazzella, in età adulta
All these trips and working in constructing the Empire State Building allowed Mr Aniello Conte to build his family a home on a plot of land he owned in Ponza, Italy. Four years after the completion of the Empire State Building, Conte made his last trip to America in 1935.
Da sinistra a destra: Aniello Conte e due dei suoi figli, Lucia e Silverio.
After hearing about a pending raid at the gambling dens where he lived on Morris Avenue, Aniello, an undocumented, “illegal” Italian immigrant, decided to pack his bags and head back home to Ponza where his wife convinced him to stay and settle down now that they had built their home.
Aniello Conte lived out his life as a fisherman until his wife passed away in 1963 and he continued farming straight until his later years and passed away just shy of his 100th birthday in 1983 recalled his granddaughter Civita Mazzella.
Pictured above is Aniello Conte sitting on his porch. Below is the view from the same porch decades later.
In the 1970s, Florinda Conte, one of Aniello and Rosa’s 4 surviving children of 7, came to the United States after marrying her sweetheart, the late Vincenzo Mazzella in their hometown of Ponza and settled in Melrose, around the corner from where her father, more than 40 years earlier, had lived for a few short years to give her family a better life back home.
It was a time of turmoil and many of the Italians who lived in the neighborhood were leaving for other parts of The Bronx, like Morris Park or outside The Bronx altogether but Vincenzo, Florinda, and their daughter Civita Mazzella stayed right where they were on 149th Street between Morris and Courtlandt Avenues. They weren’t the only ones to stay but were in fact one of the last of the Italian immigrant families in the area until 1999 when they achieved the American Dream and purchased a house in Morris Park.
This is a story of Aniello Conte and all the undocumented “illegal” immigrants who shaped this country along with all the other immigrants. Immigrants, regardless of their status, made many sacrifices for their families and this country who are unappreciated in many parts of our nation and society.
Next time you encounter an immigrant to this country, say thank you and remember where we all came from. This country was built on the backs of enslaved people and immigrants and immigrants continue to do so today.
As you can see, The Bronx has always been a borough of immigrants. Let’s continue to welcome them with open arms and appreciate the hard work they do.
Best known for her role as Rosario, Karen Walker’s maid on Will & Grace, Bronx born and raised actress, Shelley Morrison died on Sunday at the age of 83.
Born Rachel Mitrani to Sephardic Jewish parents from Spain, she lived the first decade of her life in the South Bronx before moving to California in 1946 with her family.
Shelley Morrison at The Emmy’s in 2003/Kevin Winter/Getty Images
In 1967 she rose to fame as Sister Sixto in Sally Field’s ‘The Flying Nun’, a role that she played until the show was canned in 1970.
But her big rise to fame came when she played Rosario on Will & Grace for 7 years until the show ended in 2006 and then in a special episode of the show in 2016.
“Shelley’s greatest pride as an actress was in playing the indomitable Rosario in a comedy series that furthered the cause of social equity and fairness for L.G.B.T.Q. people,” Mr. Dominguez said in a statement. “She also took pride in portraying a strong, loving yet feisty Latina character.”
He added: “She believed that the best way to change hearts and minds was through comedy.”
The daughter of Spanish immigrants, Ms. Morrison was born and raised in the Bronx, where a street sign carries her name at 159th Street and Grand Concourse Boulevard as part of the Bronx Walk of Fame. After moving to Los Angeles, she attended Los Angeles City College and began her stage career, becoming one of the city’s first female stage producers.
Thanks for the laughs, Shelley, you’ll always be our Rosie.
A version of this article was originally published on December 15, 2015 when Star Wars: The Force Awakens opened up.
Yes, you read that correctly. According to an interview in The New Yorker with Anthony Daniels, the British actor who plays the iconic C-3PO in the Star Wars franchise, was supposed to have a “Bronx” accent as George Lucas had imagined he would.
C-3P0 /Image via starwars.com
As opening day for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is soon upon us on December 20th, we thought we’d reshare this article from two years ago when Star Wars: The Force Awakens opened up.
“C-3PO’s lines were muffled by his elaborate headgear on set. So in 1976, Daniels traveled to the U.S. for the first time to rerecord them. “I walked into the sound producer’s stage on Highland,” he remembers, “and the engineer said, ‘Huh, interesting. We spent a couple of months trying to find a voice for your part because George really hates it.’” Lucas had imagined the droid as a used-car dealer from the Bronx. “He’d never thought of him being a British butler. But he had the generosity of spirit to change his mind. Had it not been for that, I wouldn’t have been in Episode V.”
Although it clearly never came to fruition, we did get a bit close with Joan Rivers as Dot Matrix in the Mel Brooks Star Wars spoof, “Spaceballs”
Can you imagine if this had really happened? LOL
At least we now have the “Joker Stairs” to claim as our own though… 😏
Construction recently began at 2401 Third Avenue for Bankside, a new 1,350 unit market-rate luxury waterfront development in the South Bronx.
Renderings courtesy ArX Solutions
Originally owned by Somerset Partners and The Chetrit Group who attempted and failed to rebrand the area as “The Piano District” (through a tone deaf ‘The Bronx is Burning’ themed party) the development site was sold to Brookfield for $165 million who is spearheading the $950 million development across over 4 acres along the Harlem River Waterfront.
Renderings courtesy ArX Solutions
According to the Real Deal, construction should be completed towards the end of 2021 for the first phase of the development and will contain 450 units.
As part of the development, there will also be a waterfront park which is actually mandated by the 2009 rezoning of the area and the creation of the Special Harlem River Waterfront District (known as SHRWD).
Renderings courtesy ArX Solutions
30% of the units will be “affordable” but in a massive development of this size, it will change the face of the South Bronx forever as thousands of new higher economic residents move into the area.
Renderings courtesy ArX Solutions
Bankside will straddle either side of the Third Avenue Bridge with 7 interconnected towers and ground floor retail and commercial space.
The big question remains if people will actually flock here.
While foreclosures are down in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island, that is not the case in The Bronx where they are still on the rise according to a new report issued by NYU’s Furman Center.
Not only that, but in 2017 (which is the most recent year used in the report) of the 176,590 evictions that were filed in New York City by private landlords, 68,935 were in The Bronx accounting for 39% of all filings in the city.
According to the report, between 2010-2017, all boroughs experienced a similar decline in eviction filings but that wasn’t the case in The Bronx where they continued to increase.
It is important to note that for this study NYCHA initiated evictions were not taken into account but will be in a future brief.
While the root causes as to why this is happening in our borough are not examined, one can safely point to the fact that we have a significantly lower average household income than the rest of the city comes into play coupled with the fact that more households in The Bronx are rent burdened paying a greater portion of their salaries towards rent than others are contributing factors.
The Bronx needs true, affordable housing and it needs it NOW!
A brand new development in the Melrose neighborhood of The Bronx that’s nearing completion is now accepting applications for some truly affordable units.
Cauldwell Avenue Apartments, located at 735 Cauldwell Avenue and E 156th Street, the development has 161 units with 3 bedrooms as low as $594/mo which is literally unheard of.
735 Cauldwell rising at 156th Street in Melrose/Image Courtesy of Stephen Cameron
Studios start at $331, 1 bedrooms at $426/mo, and 2 bedrooms as low as $521/mo but there are very limited number of these units that are set aside for those households making 30% of the Area Median Income.
Qualifying annual household incomes start at $13,303 for a family of 1 or 2 making 30% of the AMI and as high as $132,400 for a family of 7.
Some amenities are a part-time attended lobby, roof deck, a gym, laundry room, and party room.
You have until January 17, 2020 to apply and you can do so by clicking here.
As with all other posts regarding available apartments, please DO NOT CONTACT US as we are in no way connected to this or any other development.
Bronx residents asked for it and now they have it: A ferry that arrives at Wall Street before 7AM.
After a successful first year in service which exceeded expectation by 63%, NYC Ferry began operating a pilot ferry departing at 5:25AM, which arrives at Wall Street at 6:15AM, thanks to Bronx residents who asked for such an earlier service that would benefit more Bronxites like construction workers.
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East 90th Street
East 34th Street
Wall Street/ Pier 11
5:25 AM
5:43 AM
5:58 AM
6:10 AM
According to an email sent to Welcome2TheBronx from the New York City Economic Development Corporation, NYC Ferry is taking the opportunity to test out this new service as they enter winter schedule.
Even better news is that they were able to do this in a, “…cost-neutral way and we’re not spending more money to add this service”, according to communications that were made to Welcome2TheBronx on the matter.
This really goes to show that if we want something and enough people ask for it, we can make it happen.
Now let’s make sure enough people who want and need this earlier ferry, use it!
Starting next month, some Bronx residents will no longer have to swipe their MetroCard to use the subway but will also have the ability to simply tap their phone for an even faster entry into the system.
OMNY (One Metro New York) contactless readers are being installed at E 138th Street on the 4 and 5 line, 149th Street Grand Concourse on the 2, 4, and 5 line and all stations from 161st Street/River Avenue to the end of the 4 line at Woodlawn in preparation for the system December launch in The Bronx.
OMNY readers installed at turnstiles at E 138th Street/Grand Concourse on the 4 and 5 (top) and at 149th Street/Grand Concourse on the 2/4/5 line (bottom)/Image courtesy of Ozzy
The beauty of the system is that you no longer will have to stand in line to refill your card at a broken MetroCard machine or a long line at a token booth since your smartphone will be directly linked to your debit or credit card so it will automatically be refilled.
You can also simply tap your debit or credit cards that are NFC enabled too.
The OMNY system is expected to be at all subway stations and buses by the end of 2020.
But for those who don’t have access to a smartphone, bank account or credit cards, do not worry as there will be a cash option available once MetroCards are phased out in 2023.
For Bronx residents living in the most underbanked borough, that’s a sigh of relief.
Check out the news from PIX11 below followed by an MTA video on how it works.
This Thursday, November 14, the New York City Economic Development Corporation will host the first pubic design workshop for a new upcoming 2.3 acre waterfront park along the Harlem River Waterfront.
The new park, which will be located on Exterior between E 144th and E 146th Streets, is part the city’s $200 million gentrification investment to make the area more attractive for all the thousands of new residents that will eventually occupy the several thousand new apartments that are being planned.
But in the meantime, we can still get to help design a space that we should have gotten long ago.
So join us this Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 6:00PM at Hostos Community College D Building/Savoy Manor Building located at 120 E 149th Street, 2nd Floor.
There will be a brief presentation followed by several activities designed to gather input from the community as to what we wanna see there both in terms of design and programming for the new park.
The Marble Hill Houses won’t see new boilers for a few more winters. Photo: Gabriel Sandoval/THE CITY
This story was originally published on November 11, 2019 by THE CITY.
With winter approaching, the federal monitor overseeing the New York City Housing Authority gave preliminary approval last Wednesday to spend a $450 million pile of backlogged state funds, including $363 million to upgrade obsolete boilers.
But the fine print from NYCHA monitor Bart Schwartz says that those new boilers won’t begin to come online until 2023, seven years after Gov. Andrew Cuomo first began setting aside the money — and most don’t even have a completion date yet.
That means at least four more winters with old, on-the-brink heating equipment at 25 developments owed new boilers using the state funds, which was budgeted as far back as 2016.
NYCHA was roundly criticized two years ago when more than 300,000 residents experienced heat outages during a brutal winter. Multiple developments are squeaking by with boilers that are falling apart and only getting older.
Among them is Marble Hill Houses in The Bronx, where $13.7 million in state funds is allocated to pay for six new boilers that will thunder to life — four heat seasons from now.
On Friday, when the temperatures dipped into the 30s for the first time this fall, Marble Hill residents were scratching their heads at the extraordinary governmental maneuvers that could make improvements to their homes take so long.
“That seems like a lot of time just to install the boilers,” said Orion Kendall, 21, who’s lived in Marble Hill Houses since he was 9. “It’s upsetting but it feels like one of those things that it’s not overly surprising. It just feels like this isn’t an isolated experience.”
At times, he said, the heat would go out, “sometimes in the middle of winter, which is the best time you want to actually have heat.”
While he says it didn’t bother him too much, “my grandmother, she is not a fan of it. The second it starts to get temperatures like this, she needs the heat.”
Christian Perez, 43, walking his pit bull, Lala, and his mother’s shih tzu, Lucky, through Marble Hill Friday said he regularly visits his mom, a Marble Hill tenant for 12 years. In the last two years, the heat has gone out in her building, at times when the cold outside is unbearable.
“It’s snowing. It’s slush out here. Why would they let that sh-t build up like that?” he said. “It’s rough. She would have to dress up in layers. Sometimes she would have to turn on the oven, you know, just to get a little heat out of it.”
Marble Hill Houses resident Orion Kendall said his family sometimes has to heat water on their stove when his building’s boiler is out of service. Photo: Gabriel Sandoval/THE CITY
In giving the green light, Schwartz also released details of NYCHA’s budget breakdown and timeline to install 108 new boilers in 25 developments, as well as 148 new elevator cars in 10 complexes.
NYCHA estimates the investments will improve the lives of nearly 80,000 of its 400,000 residents.
But the plan put forth by NYCHA sets an “anticipated completion end date” for boilers in nine developments of June 2023.
That’s when the tenants of Jackson Houses in the Melrose section of The Bronx can expect to at long last feel the heat from six new boilers, with $13.3 million in state funds. On Friday, tenants in two buildings at this 55-year-old development had been dealing with electrical outages dating to July and a gas outage that started on Thursday. NYCHA’s website listed repairs as “in progress.”
As for the other 16 developments targeted for new boilers, their “anticipated completion end date” is an acronym in Schwartz’s records: TBD. As in “to be determined.”
Elevator replacement is also in the Twilight Zone through at least July 2022. Some developments won’t see new lifts until 2023.
Carey Gardens in Coney Island, Brooklyn, where the elevators experience an average of at least one outage each month, has a January 2023 “anticipated completion end date” for nine new cars funded by $3.4 million. About one-third of the residents there are senior citizens or have mobility or vision challenges.
Funding Granted and Paused
While relief for NYCHA tenants remains still years away, the state funds to pay for the improvements have already been on the books for up to three years — then held back at Cuomo’s insistence.
Way back in June 2016, the governor put $200 million into the fiscal year 2017 state budget to help NYCHA upgrade decaying building systems. A year later, he added another $250 million.
By deciding to steer money to NYCHA, Cuomo reversed a course set by Gov. George Pataki, who stopped sending state money NYCHA’s way in the late 1990s.
Cuomo first allocated $100 million in 2015, but wound up handing it over to local assembly members to dole out to developments in their districts for small-scale projects, like new security cameras.
Distrustful of NYCHA management’s ability to effectively spend the money they’re given, Cuomo refused to turn the 2016 and 2017 funding over until he could be assured there was adequate oversight in place. He demanded that NYCHA provide the state with a detailed plan spelling out how they’d spend it and arrange for independent oversight to make sure what they promised actually occurred.
For years negotiations dragged. NYCHA and former Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen submitted several plans to the state. By spring 2018, Cuomo was insisting that NYCHA hire an “independent construction manager” to handle the state funds. NYCHA says the state “terminated discussions” in March 2018.
A few months later, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman announced de Blasio and NYCHA had signed off on a consent decree to settle a civil lawsuit he filed charging the authority had deliberately misled the federal government about the conditions of its buildings.
That agreement, ultimately amended in January outside court supervision, resulted in the appointment of the monitor. Cuomo then announced he would release the money subject to the monitor’s approval of NYCHA’s plan. Schwartz gave his preliminary thumbs-up last week.
In an email response to THE CITY’s questions about whether the governor feels the funding could have materialized faster, Cuomo’s press secretary, Caitlin Girouard, made clear on Friday the governor wants to see the money go to work right away.
“For years the New York City Housing Authority was underfunded by the Federal government and its administrators,” she wrote. “NYCHA’s 400,000 residents deserve far better living conditions than they have, and we want to see the projects supported by the State’s unprecedented $450 million commitment executed as quickly as possible.”
Ongoing Decay
During the years of delay, the condition of the boilers and elevators in the developments targeted for improvements went down, while the cost of fixing some of them went up — in some cases, way up.
NYCHA has a number rating system for equipment, from Category 1 designated as “good condition” to Category 5, which is “failing” with “obsolete equipment” and “excessive outage issues.”
Between 2017 and 2018, while the state money was in limbo, nine of the 25 developments picked for new heating systems saw their boilers slide down into Category 5, bringing the total number of developments on the state’s list with “failing” boilers to 12.
The Louis H. Pink Houses in Brooklyn, which are set to get $12.1 million to pay for six new boilers, dropped from Category 3 — “fair condition” — to Category 5, “failing.” The“anticipated completion end date” for new boilers is June 2023.
While the budget of installation of some of these heating systems and new elevators stayed more or less consistent since the money was first proposed, the projected cost at some developments went through the proverbial roof.
At the Gowanus Houses in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, the estimated cost of installing six new heating systems as reported in state budget documents was $11.5 million. The document released by the NYCHA monitor last week now estimates the Gowanus heat system upgrade will cost $41.4 million.
The cost of putting in seven new heating systems in the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn went from an estimated $19 million in the 2017 state budget to $55 million under the plan NYCHA submitted last week.
And both Gowanus and Marcy have yet to receive a designated completion date for installation of those systems. They remain in the “TBD” universe.
As a result, NYCHA now says the $450 million will not be enough to cover all the costs as originally planned. In its response to the monitor, NYCHA said it would rely on federal funds to make up the difference.
And while the finish line is in sight, the final lap has yet to officially begin. That’s because NYCHA monitor Schwartz only gave his preliminary approval, taking the position that the plan still does not have enough detail for him to believe it will succeed.
Schwartz specifically noted that the plan as presented relies on NYCHA adopting a process known as “design build,” which allows them to hire one contractor to both design and build the heating systems and elevator upgrades. Usually NYCHA hires designers and builders separately, which slows down completion.
“NYCHA’s inexperience in the work of design build construction must be factored into scheduling commitments if NYCHA is to be successful in meeting interim and long-term deadlines,” Schwartz wrote in a memo to NYCHA Chair Greg Russ Wednesday.
NYCHA has hired a contractor, Jacobs Project Management, to come up with a specific set of milestones for each boiler and elevator car, which the company must produce by Dec. 6. At that point if all goes well, Schwartz will give his final approval.
The authority expects to meet its deadline by year’s end, according to spokeswoman Barbara Brancaccio.
“This plan represents the required “green light” to move forward with the design and construction of these projects and NYCHA will work with the Federal Monitor to meet the December 31st deadline to have schedules in place,” she said.
This story was originally published by THE CITY, an independent, nonprofit news organization dedicated to hard-hitting reporting that serves the people of New York.
Roland Lopez is a retired NYPD detective who has lived in the Longwood Historic District since 1942. He was born in East Harlem and his parents came from Puerto Rico. This article explores his life through photographs that he shared with the Historic Districts Council recently.
In 1964, at the age of 22, Lopez became a police officer. He remembers that in the early 1950s, street gangs mainly clashed over girls and their “territory”, but as he came out of the Police Academy in the early 1960s, more explosive elements, such as drugs, were added to their altercations.
Lopez was first stationed in East Harlem where he dealt with race riots, homicides, and all sorts of crimes involving drugs, guns and prostitution. One of the main causes for East Harlem’s violence, he recalled, was the abrupt demographic change that happened in the 1950s when African Americans and Puerto Ricans arrived to the neighborhood.
In 1972, after 6 years in East Harlem, Roland was transferred to the South Bronx, and there he faced one of the “country’s worst urban blights”, as described in a 1977 article from the New York Times.
The city’s financial crisis at the time brought difficult problems to the NYPD, and Roland felt his future in the police department was uncertain. On July 1 of 1975, five thousand police officers were laid off, and from July 1965 until 1979, no police officers were hired or trained. During that time, “No classes were held at the Police Academy. No one was being taught about police procedures. There was no new blood with a fresh view of a changing world,” The New York Times reported.
Roland considered leaving the NYPD until he was asked to join the undercover department for crimes in Upper Manhattan. He decided to stay, as he thought it would be exciting. He transformed his physical appearance to evoke that of a criminal:
In his first assignment, he went to the apartment of a man in Washington Heights who was allegedly selling guns.
Roland knocked on the door, a man opened it, and Roland said that he wanted to buy a gun.
“Who sent you?” the man asked.
“Chino sent me,” Roland replied.
“Come back tomorrow,” the man said and slammed the door.
The Police Department came the next day with a search warrant, but the gun dealer had left. “For sure he smelled something was out of place. I wasn’t given proper training, and I was nervous,” said Roland.
In the late 1970s, Roland was promoted to be an investigator and mainly dealt with homicides.
One of his first and most shocking assignments involved a woman who was dating a drug dealer. She wanted to leave the drug dealer and she began dating someone else. One afternoon, as she was heading to the house of the new man, the drug dealer followed her, and waited until she went in the apartment. Then, he broke in with a gun. When Roland arrived, he saw “brains all over”.
For 21 years, Lopez worked in the police department and all while living in the same home he grew up in in the Longwood Historic District of The Bronx.
He says he thinks he’ll never leave his house because of the emotional meaning to him.
“My parents bought this house with a lot of love. My brother David used to live there. Me and my ex-wife used to live here too. My mother painted the walls. She used to do carpentry and gardening.” he said.
Roland’s house in the Longwood Historic District in the Bronx
This post comes from the Historic Districts Council. Founded in 1970 as a coalition of community groups from the city’s designated historic districts, HDC has grown to become one of the foremost citywide voices for historic preservation. Serving a network of over 500 neighborhood-based community groups in all five boroughs, HDC strives to protect, preserve and enhance New York City’s historic buildings and neighborhoods through ongoing advocacy, community development, and education programs.
Now in its eighth year, Six to Celebrate is New York’s only citywide list of preservation priorities. The purpose of the program is to provide strategic resources to neighborhood groups at a critical moment to reach their preservation goals. The six selected groups receive HDC’s hands-on help on all aspects of their efforts over the course of the year and continued support in the years to come. Learn more about this year’s groups, the Six to Celebrate app, and related events here >>
New York City’s affordable housing lottery is now open for a new residential development in the Bedford park neighborhood of The Bronx.
Located at 16 E 204th Street at the corner of Jerome, Villa Gardens is a 12 story, 52 unit development with a mix of studios, 1, 2, and 3 bedroom units.
The affordability levels are not as deep and are geared more towards middle income families with units set aside for households making 60%, 90%, and 100% of the Area Median Income, or AMI.
Income requirements for the various apartments and levels of affordability available at Villa Gardens
Rents start out as low as $736 for a studio unit for those making 60% AMI and go up as high as $2,066 for a 3 bedroom for families making 100% of the AMI.
Villa Gardens doesn’t have much to offer in terms of amenities which are limited to rooftop and outdoor recreation areas, bike room and laundry but what it doesn’t have onsite is made up for by all the nearby attractions.
Within a few blocks you have Lehman College, the Jerome Park Reservoir, Van Cortlandt Park, NYC’s third largest park, Mosholu Parkway with its verdant strip of trees and grass, Williamsbridge Oval and so much more.
It’s also one block from the 4 train at Bedford Park Boulevard and Jerome and the and three blocks from the B and D trains at the Grand Concourse and Bedford Park Boulevard.
Villa Gardens as of July 2018 via Google
Application deadline is January 3, 2020 so make sure you head over to their website to check out the necessary qualifications and apply.
Please do NOT contact Welcome2TheBronx as we are not affiliated with this or any development. We’re only sharing the news with you.
