Renderings have been revealed for Fordham Landing South, a two-building affordable housing complex along the Harlem River in University Heights, The Bronx. Designed by Perkins Eastman and developed by Dynamic Star and Lettire Construction, the project is slated to yield approximately 927 affordable homes, a public waterfront esplanade, enclosed parking, and improved access to the Metro-North rail system. All units will be 100 percent affordable, and at least 15 percent will be reserved for formerly homeless families. The project site is located on an underused stretch of land just south of the University Heights Bridge.
The rendering above depicts the development from the west, previewing the arrangement of the structures. The north building will feature three towers rising from a shared multistory podium, while its taller sibling to the south will consist of a singular tower with considerably greater bulk. The podiums of both buildings are clad primarily in dark brown paneling and will be topped with landscaped amenity decks, while their tower components are largely enclosed in glass curtain walls. The towers of the northern structure will also feature numerous stacks of balconies.
Rendering of Fordham Landing, via onefordhamlanding.com
Rendering of Fordham Landing, via onefordhamlanding.com
Site infrastructure will be supported in part by a $55 million award from New York State, administered by Empire State Development, as well as financing from the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
“With today’s announcement, the long-held dream of transforming this neglected stretch of Bronx waterfront into a vibrant, accessible community is finally becoming a reality,” said Gary Segal, co-founder and CEO, Dynamic Star. “What was once deserted will soon be a destination—a place where families can live, work, and thrive for generations to come.”
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Wish you would include a map like Oscar does with Florida YIMBY articles.
It looks lovely. I hope that this stays lovely and the new residents will keep it lovely. Hopefully, there will be no criminal element that will infiltrate. The area could be prone to that.
Proximity to mass transit ? It’s not close.
It’s going to be on top of a Metro North station and the 1 train is right across the bridge. Also several buses like the SBS Bx12.
The irony of your name mentioning you’re from the Bronx, yet being unaware of the surrounding transportation options for this site, is quite comical.
It literally couldn’t be closer. MetroNorth, 1 subway, Bx12 SBS
The strip of land between the railroad tracks and the Harlem River was used for low rise warehouse-type factories which faded away. When I lived on Sedgwick Ave. in the 1970s, I recall one catching fire and a fire boat called to aid the firemen.
It needs space for commercial stores
Never thought id see new construction in the Bronx when I was young 50 years ago. Amazing
There’s new construction all over the Bronx these days. Some of it is fully market-rate.
The Deegan floods regularly when it rains heavily. What flood prevention measures will be taken?
Terrific project, and quite a cluster when combined with all the new Inwood buildings right across the bridge.
future ghetto
no market rate, all “affordable”
will devolve quickly into an the abyss.
in The Bronx ? no thonx
Lemme guess, you and your cholo friends are targeting it to sell drugs, right?
u still talking about “ghetto?”
what are you, an aggrieved racialized capitalist?
also, this is the bronx.
stick to the gentry areas if what you need to live or interlope in a place is a superficial illusion of safety.
I’m ecstatic af to know that this development will be 100% affordable for the Bronxites who need it most. The Bronx has been a home to generations of immigrant families despite the distorted perception of outsiders and interlopers.
Crime is a fetishization imposed by those who wish to appropriate
…until you’re involved in a legit crime.
Make NYC for New Yorkers again!
The Bronx first developed as a place for people to escape the slums of Manhattan…. Bigger apartments and more trees. But things carved. Now The Bronx has an overload of subsidized housing. Manhattan and Brooklyn need more – not the Bronx…
It is completely ridiculous in this day and age that politicians don’t know that mixed income developments are the best way to add “affordable housing”. Unless of course politicians bank on creating dependent voting blocs and so do it this way on purpose. Sad because it could be a great project if it was mixed with market rate and affordable. You can attract more commercial entities that way as well…. Ridiculous politicians