People from The Bronx, and more specifically WOMEN, continue to break records and shattering barriers.
The FDNY will, as of tomorrow, have their first ever woman and first ever gay Chief of EMS in New York City history as Lillian Bonsignore takes the reigns over the 4,500 employees of the department.
“I take this promotion very seriously,” she said. “I had a difficult childhood … and I would not be in this position if not for the strong women who were placed in my path along the way. They encouraged me and kept me going.”
According to the Daily News, when Bonsignore first began working for EMS she thought she was only gonna work for the summer as she had her eyes set on going to medical school.
FDNY’s new EMS Chief, Lillian Bonsignore will take the helm of the department starting tomorrow./Image via Lillian Bonsignore
Little did she ever think that 28 years later, she’d become the highest ranking individual of the department.
“I take this promotion very seriously,” she said. “I had a difficult childhood … and I would not be in this position if not for the strong women who were placed in my path along the way. They encouraged me and kept me going.” she told the Daily News.
Congratulations to Lillian Bonsignore and thanks for making us proud!
What more proof do you need not to ever mess with a woman from The Bronx? They’re a force to be reckoned with!
Two Bronx schools have made New York City’s top ten best high school’s list according to US News and World Report.
Coming in at 5th place (unsurprisingly) is Bronx High School of Science which ranked 49th in the country and also 5th place in the state.
In at 6th place is High School of American Studies at Lehman College which ranked an impressive 57th in the country and 6th in the state according to the report.
In the report’s top 50th list, a total of 5 other schools made the cut and are as follows:
49. The Laboratory School of Finance and Technology
45. Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics
43. University Heights Secondary School-Bronx Community College
41. Academy for Language and Technology
Pan American International High School at Monroe
The schools were ranked based on college readiness (30%), math and reading proficiency (20%), math and reading performance (20%), underserved student performance (10%), college curriculum breadth (10%), and graduation rate (10%).
See the full list of top 50 NYC high schools here.
The potential future site of the disputed drug-treatment clinic at 5622 Broadway in Kingsbridge, The Bronx. Photo: Ese Olumhense/THE CITY
Two Bronx lawmakers petitioning the state to deny a license to a planned upscale drug treatment center in Kingsbridge argue the neighborhood doesn’t have an opioid problem — a claim at odds with city statistics on fatal overdoses.
The private outpatient facility, slated to include yoga sessions and personal trainers, would be “a great hindrance to a community not at the center of this epidemic,” Democratic Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz and Councilmember Andrew Cohen wrote in an April 13 letter obtained by THE CITY.
“It is concerning to know that this location could potentially introduce a problem to a community where there isn’t one,” they said in the note to state Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services Commissioner Arlene Gonzalez-Sanchez.
Yet statistics compiled by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene show the Riverdale/Kingsbridge area ranked 15th worst out of the city’s 42 health districts in its rate of fatal opioid overdoses in 2017, with 18.3 deaths for every 100,000 residents.
And neighborhoods just to the east, across the Major Deegan Expressway, logged the city’s fifth-worst opioid fatality rate in the city that year, with 31.2 deaths per 100,000 residents in the zip codes covering Norwood, Bronx Park and Belmont. Those areas recorded 37.1 deaths per 100,000 for all fatal drug overdoses that year.
A No-Medicaid Zone
Operators of the clinic, named Ekawa — “awake” backwards — have signed a 10-year lease on a second-floor space in a former Conway’s discount store on Broadway and 232nd Street.
The facility will only take private insurance, said Ekawa lobbyist Jeff Klein, who formerly represented the area in the state Senate and now works for Mercury Public Affairs, following his defeat in November’s election. Ekawa will not accept Medicaid, Klein said.
Ekawa plans to offer “fantastic amenities” like yoga, meditation, group therapy and personal trainers in a spa-like facility open from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays, alongside both medication-free and medication-assisted treatment for addiction, such as buprenorphine and methadone.A rendering of the proposed Ekawa treatment clinic. Photo: Courtesy ofJeff Klein/Mercury Public Affairs
Many treatment professionals consider medication-assisted therapies vital against addictions notoriously hard to kick. “Bupe pretty much saved my life,” said Shantae Owens, a Highbridge resident who used to use heroin and now works at a harm reduction center on the Lower East Side.
Owens slammed as baseless the notion that opioid addiction is only some other neighborhoods’ problem.
“People need to really wake up,” he said. “Where do they think these people were? Where do they think we were? We were the community, we were already in the community.
“We’ve always been in your backyard, I’m still in the backyard. And now I’m trying to clean up the backyard.”
Dinowitz — who used to chair the Assembly’s Standing Committee on Alcoholism and Drug abuse — told THE CITY he is generally supportive of drug treatment centers. But he expressed “strong reservations” about putting the clinic on a bustling commercial strip.
“It’s more sensible to locate it in an area where it would impact fewer people,” Dinowitz said.
A Luxury Experience
In their letter demanding the state deny Ekawa a license, Dinowitz and Cohen raised another, seemingly contradictory, objection — that the center would exclude local low-income residents in need.
“The proposed center is set to open for private insurances only while being placed in a community where a large number of the population are Medicaid recipients,” they wrote. “[I]t has no intention of serving the community where it will be operating.”
State Senator Gustavo Rivera, another Democrat who represents the area, told THE CITY he shares that concern.
“In my opinion, drug treatment facilities, such as Ekawa, are primarily focused on profits rather than providing potentially life-saving services to very vulnerable populations,” he said. “The Bronx has a large Medicaid population, and a company that seeks to help people overcome substance addiction should not be excluding a portion of the neighborhood they seek to settle in.”
Ekawa Group, LLC was incorporated in November under the name of an old hand in Bronx politics: Francisco Lugovina, who chaired the county Democratic party in the 1980s until stepping aside amid scrutiny of his contracts with the city and with Cablevision as it sought exclusive rights to provide cable service to the Bronx. Lugovina did not respond to messages left by THE CITY.
“People need (the clinic),” said Angel Torres, who’s worked in the area for 18 years. Photo: Ese Olumhenses/THE CITY
Ekawa is in the process of filling out an application to become an OASAS-licensed treatment provider, Klein told THE CITY, adding that Lugovina is not involved in the company. While Klein is barred from lobbying members of the Legislature for two years, he can still lobby the governor’s office, state agencies and local New York City representatives.
That includes Community Board 8, where Klein — just months ago one of the mightiest men in Albany under a power-sharing agreement — made the case for the treatment clinic last month to skeptical locals, who expressed concerns about safety, public nuisances, privacy, parking and drug dealing.
‘If Not Here, Then Where’
The drug-treatment clinic proposal does have its local supporters.
“People need it,” said Angel Torres, who has sold fruits and vegetables in the area for 18 years. “People need some help.”
Others in the business community were wary of a new neighbor on a lively commercial strip.
“My moral standpoint and my business standpoint are kind of in two different places,” said Nick Koury, co-owner of Build N Box, a fitness center across the street from the site. “It’s great for people who need help with their drug habits, but I’m not sure of the effect all of it is going to have on business.”
Advocates for people fighting addiction urge the north Bronx to set any fears aside.
“There’s always that pushback, that we don’t need more of those in our neighborhood, when really, we need to do everything we can to keep people alive,” said Jasmine Budnella, drug policy coordinator at VOCAL-NY, an advocacy group for low-income New Yorkers affected by drugs, health issues and homelessness.
“If not here,” she said, “then where is the best location?”
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.
Out of New York City’s 59 community districts, The Bronx is home to six of the top ten community districts facing the biggest threats of displacement in the city.
Out of these, Community Board 5 in The Bronx, which covers the University Heights and Fordham neighborhoods of our borough, faces the biggest threat of displacement in New York City according to the latest report from the Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development.
Not surprising, the area is also home to the massive Jerome Avenue Rezoning which was approved last year despite overwhelming community opposition.
The report also indicates that a shocking number of residents are rent burdened, meaning that they are paying more than 30% of their income towards rent but no where was this higher in New York City than Community Board 5 in The Bronx.
The Jerome Avenue Rezoning is located within Community Board 5 which has the highest threat of displacement in New York City according to a new report by ANHD.
64.4% of residents in University Heights and Fordham are rent burdened and coupled with a 16% unemployment rate among a host of other issues makes this area highly vulnerable to displacement and of course gentrification.
The following Bronx community boards made the top ten list of neighborhoods facing the greatest threats for displacement in New York City:
Community Board 1: Melrose/Mott Haven/Port Morris
Community Board 3: Morrisania/Crotona
Community Board 4: Highbridge/Concourse
Community Board 5: University Heights/Fordham
Community Board 6: Belmont/Tremont
Community Board 7: Kingsbridge Heights/Bedford
Community Board 2, covering Hunts Point/Longwood, was the only South Bronx neighborhood which didn’t make the top ten list.
Community Boards 10 and 11 in the East Bronx had some of the least threats of displacement in The Bronx and New York City .
CB 8 covering Riverdale and Fieldston had the least threat of displacement in The Bronx.
You can read the full report over at ANHD’s website.
The following was originally published over at Hidden Waters Blog, a companion blog to the amazing Hidden Waters of NYC book by Sergey Kadinsky, and reprinted with permission.
On the Bronx side of the Harlem River sandwiched between the stream, a railway, and a highway is Bridge Park, the newest link in what will be a series of parks running from Kingsbridge to Mott Haven on a formerly industrial shoreline. At this park, one gets dramatic views from underneath three arch bridges linking the Bronx to upper Manhattan.
At the southern entrance to the park is the oldest standing bridge connecting Manhattan to the mainland. Completed in 1848, the bridge carried the city’s drinking water in a Roman-style aqueduct reminiscent of the Pont du Gard in France. Between 1923 and 1927, five of the original 16 arches were removed in favor of a steel arch in order to improve navigation on the Harlem River. Eugene de Salignac was on scene to document the transformation. The walkway atop High Bridge functions as the uptown version of the celebrated High Line, albeit with less crowding. This section of the park has not yet been developed, appearing like an urban wasteland while plans are made to give it a more naturalistic scene.
Further south from High Bridge, looking down from the walkwayis Highbridge Facility, a rail yard serving the Metro North railroad. Its presence impedes the possibility of a continuous shoreline walkway between Bridge Park and Mill Pond Park a mile to the south.
Metro North blogger Emile Moser tells the story of this rail yard. I suppose there is space along the water’s edge for a public walkway here, but it would be quite slim here. The rail yard has its own employees-only station, which is good for workers on site as the nearest subway and public train stations are nearly a mile away.
The road along the river is Exterior Street, a generic name that also appears near the former Bronx Terminal Market and beneath University Heights Bridge. Its name denotes the closest street to the waterfront, similar to the role given to Marginal Street, which appears in different places on the edges of Manhattan. The arch in the foreground is Alexander Hamilton Bridge, which carries Interstate 95 (Cross Bronx Expressway). Behind it is the more historic Washington Bridge.
Not to be confused with the nearby George Washington Bridge, named after the same individual. Its twin 510-foot spans were completed in late 1889, the same year as Eiffel Tower. Both were regarded at the time as engineering marvels with great views from the top.
In the park is a stone abutment with stairs to nowhere that appears as an architectural folly. In reality it was built alongside Washington Bridge as a pedestrian walkway connecting the water’s edge to the neighborhood above.
The industrialization of the shoreline and additional rail tracks here resulted in the removal of this bridge. The only way to access Bridge Park today is either through Fordham Road at its northern entrance, or Depot Place a mile to the south. The cliff, railroad, and Major Deegan Expressway conspire to separate the park from the neighborhood.
A 1902 scene of Bridge Park from the Municipal Archives shows the slope alongside the bridge with its trimmed lawn and the footbridge above the tracks with its stone abutment. Industry had not yet arrived to the park site, which was a wetland at the time.
A closer 1902 view of the original Bridge Park shows the footbridge connecting to a dock on the shore. The dock would be removed and the wetland on either side will be filled with rubble in 1927. The arch running above land will later have the Major Deegan Expressway running under it, with ramps on the slope connecting to Cross Bronx Expressway and Washington Bridge. The hilltops will have towering apartments. The only items present today from this bucolic scene are Washington Bridge and the stone abutment.
In 1934 photographer Percy Loomis Sperr had a view of Washington Bridge. On the water’s edge are coal docks. This view would be unrecognizable today. In 1955, Major Deegan Expressway was completed on the Bronx side of Harlem River, eliminating Commerce Avenue. In 1963, the Cross Bronx Expressway eliminated W. 171st Street here, and the two green medians of Undercliff Place and Boscobel Place. A tangle of ramps connect the two highways, leaving only the small waterfront portion of the original Bridge Park. Today’s waterfront park includes that original parcel within it.
At the park’s northern end, the greenery continues as Roberto Clemente State Park. In 1973 this park was constructed together with River Park Towers, a self-contained community designed with an appearance identical to Waterside Plaza on Manhattan’s Kips Bay. The Morris Heights station provides residents with a quick commute to Grand Central. The park opened at a time when national and state parks were seeking to connect with urban residents by opening up new parks within cities.
The master plan for Bridge Park seeks to reconnect its visitors with the water and revive the rowing tradition on Harlem river in the same way that the Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse at Swindler Cove does on the opposite shore. also included in this plan is a demonstration garden, greenhouse, pebble beach, and lawns. As with other post-millennial waterfront Parks, the design by Starr Whitehouse with Perkins + Will has resiliency in mind with the frequency of storm water inundation.
The namesake of this state park was a popular Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder who died in a 1972 plane crash en route to Nicaragua, seeking to deliver aid to the earthquake-stricken country. His body was never recovered.
The design of the parkresembles that of Riverbank State Park with its simple modernism and too much concrete. It was a time of economic belt-tightening. Initially named Harlem River State Park, it was renamed for Clemente a year after its opening as the city’s first state park.
After suffering damage caused by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, the state redesigned the park for resiliency. It its vision for the park, the firm Mathews Nielsen (MNLA)peeled back the wide waterfront concrete plaza, preserving the seawall and filling in the void with a constructed wetland.
The intertidal marsh’s appearance changes with the level of the water, lending a naturalistic touch to an otherwise active recreation park better known for its ball courts and Olympic size outdoor pool. Hunters Point South in Queens also has an intertidal marsh that mitigates storm surge damage and serves as a wildlife habitat. To the north of Roberto Clemente State Park, the train tracks come too close to the water’s edge to allow for public access. But one can imagine a walkway from here to Fordham Landing and then further north to the future course of the daylighted Tibbetts Brook.
Sergey Kadinsky is the author of Hidden Waters of New York City: A History and Guide to 101 Forgotten Lakes, Ponds, Creeks, and Streams in the Five Boroughs (2016, Countryman Press) and the webmaster of Hidden Waters Blog.
He is a licensed tour guide who paid his way through college atop the double-decker Gray Line buses.
Kadinsky is a contributor to Forgotten New York, a local history website. His articles on the city’s history appeared in New York Post, New York Daily News, and Queens Chronicle, among other publications.
Read more fascinating New York City history in Sergey Kadinsky’s book! (click to purchase)
After years of a population boom in The Bronx, the borough’s population appears to have dropped by 7,500 according to new census estimates via the American Community Survey.
Overall, New York City’s population dropped by 39,523 (from 8,438,271 back in 2017 to 8,398,748 as of July 1st, 2018) but Staten Island was the only borough to show growth with 663 new residents.
Officials with New York City’s Department of City Planning told the Wall Street Journal it appeared that “the city’s robust population expansion, fueled by new young residents, in the past decade appears to have begun its inevitable slowdown.” Overall, the number of residents in the five boroughs grew by 2.7% between 2010 to 2018. “You cannot maintain that level of growth forever,” added Joseph Salvo, city planning’s chief demographer.
Bloomberg adds some more interesting details about the population changes for the entire state: “From April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2018, domestic migration left the Empire State with 1.2 million fewer inhabitants, though foreign immigration cushioned the loss. Also offsetting the loss, births outnumbered deaths. The overall change from April 1, 2010 is a modest gain of 164,085.”
And just when we were just a few thousands away from the record population of 1,471,701 set back in 1970 before the great exodus as a result of the fires and planned shrinkage where our borough lost 20% of its population within a decade.
Love her or hater, America’s youngest Congresswoman in history is has been selected as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2019.
The Bronx’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went from relative obscurity to one of the most visible faces of American politics to the point that even Fox News has developed an obsessionwith her (including many out of touch Republicans in the East Bronx, just check out the Bronx Community Board 10 and 11 groups on Facebook).
Whatever you may think of her, she is a force to be reckoned with.
Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts writes in Time:
“The year 2008 was a reckoning. While millions of Americans lost their livelihoods to Wall Street’s greed, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lost her dad to lung cancer, and her family fell off a financial cliff. She watched as our government bailed out Wall Street while it ignored families like hers. She learned the hard way that in America today, Washington protects the powerful while leaving hardworking people behind.
Her commitment to putting power in the hands of the people is forged in fire. Coming from a family in crisis and graduating from school with a mountain of debt, she fought back against a rigged system and emerged as a fearless leader in a movement committed to demonstrating what an economy, a planet and a government that works for everyone should look like.
A year ago, she was taking orders across a bar. Today, millions are taking cues from her. She reminds all of us that even while greed and corruption slow our progress, even while armies of lobbyists swarm Washington, in our democracy, true power still rests with the people. And she’s just getting started.”
A sign, photographed on April 6, informs passersby in the Westchester Square neighborhood that video surveillance is in use. Photo: Ese Olumhense/THE CITY
Over the last six months, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark’s office has quietly enlisted some 4,000 new eyes on the street: Surveillance cameras at private businesses, houses, apartment buildings and schools.
But not everyone is ready for their close up: Privacy and civil liberties advocates are on alert.
The program, dubbed “Computer Assisted Mapping System” (CAMS), launched in October and is described as an “intranet” for the thousands of cameras prosecutors have enrolled in The Bronx.
When a home or business owner signs their security cameras up, the location is added to a database that feeds an interactive map. Then, as prosecutors investigate a crime, they can enter an address and find nearby cameras that may have valuable evidence.
Prosecutors say handing over the footage is not compulsory.
“We are looking for camera evidence in a whole host of cases because we have an arrest in front of us, or we have an investigation in front of us and we have witnesses telling us how something went and we need to corroborate that, or at least discover if it’s true,” said Kerry Chicon, chief of strategic enforcement and intergovernmental relations at The Bronx DA’s office.
Many Details Remain Out of Sight
But there are some truths the public still doesn’t know about the program: Though Chicon said most of the cameras, as of mid-February, were in the southern parts of the borough, her office has declined to share any locations, citing confidentiality.
Officials also couldn’t cite any specific cases in which CAMS footage has been used – or say how frequently CAMS footage has been used as evidence.
“We don’t know yet,” a spokeswoman for Clark said in an emailed response to THE CITY. “It’s too new. We rolled out the program … in October 2018 and ADAs and paralegals have started to look at it on their cases.”
The spokeswoman said the system was built “in-house.”
Around 4,000 cameras are now enrolled in the six-month-old program, the district attorney’s office said. That’s up from the nearly 1,000 cameras The Bronx Times reported in late January.
Still, most Bronx residents who spoke with THE CITY had never heard of the program. Neither had The Bronx Defenders – which has a team of public defenders working cases in Bronx Criminal Court – nor the New York Civil Liberties Union, which monitors privacy and surveillance.
Security cameras at East 149th Street. The Bronx District Attorney hopes to enroll public and private cameras in the Computer Assisted Mapping System, or CAMS. Photo: Ese Olumhense/THE CITY
“We’re very curious ourselves!” a spokeswoman at The Bronx Defenders said in an emailed response.
THE CITY canvassed some of The Bronx’s busiest retail districts in search of business owners participating in CAMS. In conversations in the Third Avenue area, Westchester Square and on and around Fordham Road, dozens of owners, managers and workers at bodegas, pawn shops, newsstands, pharmacies, clothing stores, restaurants and more, said they knew nothing about CAMS.
“Nothing,” said Awilda Ortiz, manager of Zodiac Jewelry on Third Avenue, located steps from the heavily trafficked intersection of East 149 Street and Third, Willis and Melrose Avenues. “And I’m here seven days a week.”
Outreach is ongoing in the Third Avenue area, according to Michael Brady, executive director of the South Bronx’ Third Avenue BID, which includes one of the borough’s busiest commercial districts.
Giving prosecutors access to its cameras was the BID’s first phase of its CAMS rollout, Brady said. The BID plans to speak to area business owners about the program through the spring, he added.
“They are very open to it,” Brady said. “It comes down to public safety.”
Meanwhile, many Bronx residents had mixed feelings about the CAMS concept.
“Not for nothing, I can see why this is something the district attorneys feel they need,” said Christian Davis, who lives in Highbridge. “Things do happen out here…. I guess what doesn’t sit right with me is the fact that this popped off without people really knowing. I didn’t see it on the news, or hear about it from anybody. And I live here in The Bronx. It’s really some sci-fi s–t.”
‘Everyone is Being Filmed’
Civil liberties advocates are equally wary.
“There’s potentially a problem with how the DA’s office has gone about this, which is reliance on private businesses, private individuals, to basically perform a public function by handing over footage from these cameras,” said Michael Sisitsky, lead policy counsel at the New York Civil Liberties Union. “It’s essentially a way around external oversight if they’re relying on all of these private feeds to generate data for them.”
CAMS doesn’t provide officials with a live feed, the district attorney’s office said. And a spokeswoman said a list of participants has not been shared with the NYPD.
While CAMS has its critics, there are cheerleaders, too. Some business leaders say they’re are encouraging merchants to team with The Bronx DA’s office.
“When all the [business improvement districts] met with the DA’s office [to discuss CAMS], this was something we were in favor of,” said Lisa Sorin, president of the Bronx Chamber of Commerce. “Anything that makes the process faster and more efficient, we’re in favor of that.”
And while Sorin and Brady said they understood the concerns from some in the community, both noted that the cameras in the database were already there — the DA’s office is not installing new ones.
“Everyone is being filmed anyway,” Sorin 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.
Ok so Çka Ka Qellu in Belmont keeps getting media attention and each time we just wanna run over and check it out after seeing the delicious, Albanian food.
This time WABC featured them in a cool clip where the owner, Ramiz Kukaj, talks about why he decided to open the restaurant as well as some patrons on why they eat there.
Growing up in The Bronx, this Puerto Rican kid had the pleasure of eating authentic, home cooked Albanian dishes at friends’ homes so I’m glad that there are places like Çka Ka Qellu for others to try this amazing cuisine.
Now I just have to get over there and try it out for myself!
Watch the video below:
Çka Ka Qellu is located at 2321 Hughes Avenue in The Bronx’s Little Italy.
This year Bronx Commons and the 250 seat Bronx Music Hall in Melrose will finally open after years of delays and now the lottery is officially open for 288 residential units.
Due to the deep affordability of the 30% Area Median Income levels, this means that qualifying residents can snatch studios as low as $328/month, 1 bedrooms at $419 a month, 2 bedrooms at $509/month, and 3 bedrooms at $582/month.
Bronx Commons is nearing completion. Pictured is the entrance to the Bronx Music Hall.
These prices are literally unheard of especially in an amenity filled and important new building in The Bronx like Bronx Commons.
There are units available for a wide range of incomes to as high as 110% of the AMI making this a truly mixed-income development.
The building features a laundry room on each floor, 3 community rooms, 2 bicycle storage rooms, a fitness room, 2 outdoor spaces, and 2 public plazas.
Located at 443 E 162nd Street in Melrose, Bronx Commons is just a couple of blocks away from the Melrose Metro North Station and a 15 minute walk to either the 2 and 5 train at 3rd Avenue and 149th Street or the 4, B, D at 161st Street.
Your application MUST be submitted no later than June 14th, 2019.
Please note: We are NOT affiliated with the developer or lottery program so please do not contact us for further details as we cannot help you.
A swath of small businesses ranging from medical offices to automotive businesses have been displaced on the Grand Concourse in Mott Haven just a couple of blocks north of 138th Street.
They will soon be demolished to make way for two 14 story buildings with over 300 residential units.
310 Grand Concourse will have 157 residential units and 334 Grand Concourse will have 157 residential units spread across almost 350,000 square feet between both buildings.
No word on when construction will begin but this is just one of thousands of units that are either under construction or about to enter construction in the immediate area.
There is also no word on whether or not the development will have any affordability or if it will be market rate or a mix.
As always, stay tuned for more info.
In the meantime, we’re still wondering how the 149th Street and Grand Concourse station on the 2/4/5 line as well as 138th and Grand Concourse on the 4 and 5 line is supposed to absorb all these new tenants when you can barely walk on the platform during rush hour.
