The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has launched the public review process for a proposed 38-story mixed-use building at the southeast corner of East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem, Manhattan. Designed under the high-density zoning regulations established by Mayor Eric Adams’ “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” initiative, the project will rise above the planned Second Avenue Subway extension station. If approved, it will yield approximately 680 new residential units, over 150 of which will be permanently affordable.
Plans under review for the project outline construction on a long-vacant lot formerly occupied by a Pathmark supermarket, shuttered since 2015. The MTA is seeking a rezoning to a C6-11 district, which permits a residential Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 15. This shift, enabled by recent legislative changes in Albany, will allow significantly more residential development than previously permitted. The site will also be subject to Mandatory Inclusionary Housing requirements, ensuring that a portion of the new units will be affordable to a range of income levels.
The site is located directly adjacent to the 125th Street station, served by the 4, 5, and 6 trains at 125th Street, as well as the Metro-North Harlem–125th Street station, and several MTA bus routes.
“With great access to transportation and a thriving commercial corridor, this corner of East Harlem is exactly the right place to build high-destiny, mixed-income housing, and retail opportunities,” said Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development, and Workforce Adolfo Carrión, Jr. “This kind of development is possible through the changes our administration has secured through ‘City of Yes,’ and I commend the MTA for being a partner with us to transform this site into a place of high-quality homes and business opportunity.”
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No reason why this shouldn’t be built.
Build it please!
Insane that it’s been vacant land for a decade. So many other lots nearby too. Extend the subway across 125th and build, build, build!
680 units? That’s an immediate YES!! Build it asap!!
Finally doing something with that space. East 125th is something unreal though. Walk through and you’ll see.
“125th Street station”
Talking in the present tense about a station that may or may not ever be built.
Whoops, I’m talking about the Q.
At least they’re not making the same mistake as a few blocks west on what’s now the Whole Foods, building a midrise building on top of a busy subway station, where the neighborhood would have benefited from something much taller. Of course, having this site lie fallow for a decade is plain old malpractice.