For hundreds of years, the South Bronx waterfront along the Harlem River has been home…
Tag: Gentrification
Mott Haven—Plans have been filed for a 43 story, 400 foot tall residential tower along…
The annual Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development report on affordable housing threat is out…
Located on E 135th Street directly across from the Major Deegan Expressway (like right on…
Also known as The Grand Boulevard and Concourse, the 5.2 mile boulevard of dreams in…
Applications are now being accepted for 255 brand new affordable housing units in the South…
Two new “affordable” housing developments in The Bronx are now accepting applications. Located in the…
HBO confirms that it has leased 780 E 135th Street in Port Morris for its…
Last week, a factually incorrect and misleading op-ed piece was posted in CityLimits titled “Revitalization,…
The Wall Street Journal states that Bronx home prices have, “…eclipsed the previous record set…
South Bronx Gentrification How do we continue to improve our borough without becoming part of…
The Hub—The Bronx’s oldest shopping and commercial district located in the South Bronx neighborhood of Melrose is going through the most profound changes since the 70s and 80s when the neighborhood burned around it and its main train line, the Third Avenue El was put out of service and torn down.
Since its beginnings over a century ago when the borough was experiencing a population boom adding over 1 million residents in a span of 30 years, Melrose and The Hub, attracted residents from all over The Bronx due to it being an excellent transportation nexus—and still does today.
New “affordable” housing developments have been constructed surrounding the area and adding over 3,000 apartments and tens of thousands of new residents—with thousands of more units in various stages of construction or planning to come.
As gentrification tightens its grip on the South Bronx, long-time businesses are closing their doors as landlords either are not renewing leases or simply the new rents are too high to keep up.