Construction is wrapping up on North Cove, a 30-story residential building at 375 Wes 207th Street along the Harlem River waterfront in Inwood, Manhattan. Designed by Aufgang Architects and developed by Maddd Equities, the 295-foot-tall structure will span 544,000 square feet and yield 611 affordable rental apartments. The project will also include 60,000 square feet of lower-level retail space, residential amenities, and 120 parking spaces. The property is alternately addressed as 3875 Ninth Avenue and is bounded by West 207th Street, Ninth Avenue, and the Harlem River.
The last sections of metal scaffolding and sidewalk sheds were removed from the lower levels of the western corner since our last update in late May, when the final portions of the base were still temporarily covered. Plastic sidewalk barriers and metal fencing once visible across the first few floors have all been taken out.
375 West 207th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
375 West 207th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
375 West 207th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
375 West 207th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
375 West 207th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
375 West 207th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
375 West 207th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
375 West 207th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
375 West 207th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
375 West 207th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
375 West 207th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
Completed since our last update, the façade around the lower-level retail space features distinctive red metal louvers running horizontally in font of floor-to-ceiling glass on the second story.
375 West 207th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
375 West 207th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
375 West 207th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
The property was formerly vacant, as seen in the below aerial image oriented looking south over the site before construction broke ground.
Aerial view of development site at 3875 9th Avenue
Joy Construction Corporation and Maddd Equities are completing the project with the help of $288 million in financing secured in 2023. Wells Fargo’s Community Lending and Investment provided the financial package, which includes a $155 million letter of credit to back NYC-issued tax-exempt bonds arranged by CLI Debt. The remaining $133 million was provided by CLI Equity as an equity investment through the purchase of Low Income Housing Tax Credits and New York State Brownfield Redevelopment Tax Credits.
Residential amenities at North Cove will include bicycle storage, recreation rooms, shared laundry facilities, outdoor lounge and recreation spaces, and picnic areas. The property will also offer public access to an adjacent waterfront park on land provided by the city.
The nearest subway is the local 1 train at the elevated 207th Street station to the west.
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So unnecessarily ugly.
Inwood and Harlem are ripe for developments
100%, which is why it’s so frustrating to see so unnecessarily ugly designs taking up some of the prime redevelopment spots.
That oatmeal vomit brick is inexplicable to me. Someone actually intentionally chose that. And the massing with the strange lack of acknowledgement of its river location is just bizarre.
Shelving for Humans from the design school of the NYC Housing Authority.
This building looks like it was completed in 1992 at least make the base modern oofff
I’ve been wondering how this project would turn out for a long time. It’s huge, and I’m thankful for the additional affordable housing.
It too don’t understand the multi-colored lighter brick. Just making it a solid cream color would have helped. Had they carried the yellow brown striped effect from the base all the way up the tower, rather than changing to yellow brick under every window a sort of art-deco design would have emerged. So it’s not the best design, it seems to ignore its amazing real estate along the river, but it is a good amount of new housing units!!!
Is this affordable housing or market rate?
Hideous and hideously out of scale with the neighborhood. I know a lot of you don’t care, but do you really want an entire city of 40 story buildings?
Were not building an entire city of 40 story buildings and no one us advocating for that, but what should be advocated for is the 40 story buildings that are built be as attractive as possible. That will lead to the best, most sensible outcome.
Large apartment buildings are rarely built outside the Manhattan CBD, downtown Brooklyn and Long Island City. We need a lot more really large buildings like this in way more areas.
A bit better than the old brown brick NYCHA projects, but the color choices are truly strange. The lighter mixed color brick is just plain ugly. This wasn’t a cost choice.
Why wasn’t the eastern lower portion a completely different color palette to appear as a separate building? It would reduce the huge, monotonous scale of the project. There should be no expensive parking spaces, it should be all affordable housing.
A frustrating, but ultimately good project because more housing was added.
The point is to appear as separate buildings. To break up the bulk NIMBYs complain about. Pretty common practice now citywide.
Just to be fair, Aufgang usually does deliver great looking buildings on a budget – but this is a real miss for them and made even more unfortunate by its scale and extremely visible location.
Looks like Battery Park City from the earl 1990s.
Worse.
We need a lot more very large apartment buildings like this in a lot more neighborhoods.
Hope the units are reserved for actual working people. And not just those on city “programs” and section 8. If so, the project will devolve into a NYCHA esque project in little time.
Screen the tenants carefully it will be next to impossible to get troublemakers out once in. If it gets bad the working people will leave in droves. Just the facts from city history
Aesthetically, it’s not inspiring. But who cares. The purpose of low cost construction is to provide low cost housing – we need so much MORE of this. Our tax dollars should be spent wisely and not frivolously.
I think plenty of people care. What would this city – any city – look likebif no one had ever cared about aesthetics or beauty? What a depressing thought.
agree NFA
100%
The people who are supposed to live there care. Everyone wants to live in an attractive place. I keep saying it: some people in power want housing for the poor to LOOK like housing for the poor. It’s not benevolent to provide people homes no matter what the homes look like. As if poor people, or working class people in this case, have no aesthetic needs. That’s both racist and classist.
I get what you are saying, but on the other hand, attractive buildings are more expensive to build and maintain. We have finite tax dollars, the question is: would you rather build an attractive building for 1000 people or two average looking building for 2000 people? Personally I choose the latter
This housing doesn’t look poor at all.
They all look like boxes and prisons. Even the new Bronx Correctional building has a better looking exterior. (No I don’t want to live there) just saying.