My mom's friend has a three story brownstone on Prospect Place, she is
My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification
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My mom's friend has a three story brownstone on Prospect Place, she is
I wanted to buy property in Harlem one day, thats never going to happen
Any decent career and you can buy property in Harlem. I'm guessing you're just saying this off the strength of what you've heard
I saw a young white woman get off the 2 train at Newkirk at 2:40 in the morning, by herself.
can that be said in 10+ yrs though? This is something on my bucked list, just for the history of harlem.
Captain Crunch
Veteran
At this point you'd have to be making 150k+ to buy a house in Harlem.
At this point you'd have to be making 150k+ to buy a house in Harlem.
lol 1 bed room condo for 800k breh
"decent" job breh
Purchase seen as another sign that Mott Haven market is heating up - See more at: http://therealdeal.com/blog/2014/11...h-bronx-office-building/#sthash.mILbi41z.dpuf
Canada Goose
Pooping on your head :umad:
Even white neighborhoods like Bay Ridge is affected by gentrification 
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/201...prices-jump-nearly-10-percent-since-last-year
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/201...prices-jump-nearly-10-percent-since-last-year
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
Building an apartment building above an existing mall in Harlem, with a green roof top on the mall itself.
http://newyorkyimby.com/2014/11/rev...iver-plaza-harlems-new-tallest-buildings.html
Revealed: Three-Towered Plan for East River Plaza, Harlem’s New Tallest Buildings
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON NOVEMBER 10TH 2014 AT 7:00 AM
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East River Plaza residential towers, image by TEN Arquitectos
Earlier this fall, filmmaker Andrew Padilla got his hands on the massing diagram of Forest City Ratner’s proposed East River Plaza redevelopment. The portion of the mall on FDR Drive between East 117th and 119th Streets would give rise to three fifty-odd-story buildings. And now, YIMBY has the first semi-detailed look at the plans, designed by TEN Arquitectos.
East River Plaza residential towers, image by TEN Arquitectos
The three towers would rise atop two podiums placed over the existing mall and parking garage. Previously posted diagrams reveal the tallest of the group will stand 575 feet to its pinnacle, which is certainly tall for Upper Manhattan – taller than 1800 Park Avenue will be, even – but nothing extraordinary for New York City.
Still, the trio of high-rises would dwarf the surrounding tenements and even the public housing farther afield, with even the two shorter buildings clocking in at 515 and 455 feet tall. (The towers are only 47-, 41-, and 32-stories tall, but are boosted an extra 100 or so feet by the mall and transfer decks on which they would be built.)
From up-close, the designs take a more interesting turn. Variegated facades seem to emulate ODA’s work around the city or Herzog & de Meuron’s 56 Leonard. One of the towers would come all the way down to the street at “La Plaza,” which would rework the cobblestone dead-end of East 118th Street into an active public space. Glass cut-outs would be juxtaposed against future displays of public art over the black face of the current mall, integrating art and architecture into a coherent public space.
The project would also include 24,000 square feet of “low-rise” residences (perched 155 feet up, on a podium, and configured in the form of townhomes), plus another 25,000 square feet of amenities and cultural space.
Additionally, while it is difficult to tell in the renderings, the towers will be connected by two skybridges. The West Tower — the tallest of the bunch — will be the anchor, connected to the North Tower by a bridge at an elevation of 245 feet. Its link to the southern tower will be slightly higher up, at 255 feet.
Site overview
Of the towers’ 1,100 apartments, 25 percent would be let at below-market rates, according to Forest City Ratner’s proposal. They would go to households making 30 to 60 percent of the area median income, which this year would work out to anything from $18,000 for an individual to $52,000 for a family of four.
The site already has the zoning to accommodate the residential uses, but East River Plaza must still go through the politicized ULURP process because of a special permit used to build the mall. With a 25 percent affordable set-aside, the project would have more below-market housing than a typical 80/20 development.
The de Blasio administration will surely feel pressured to ask for more, and they may be able to eek a few more units out of the developers. But at the end of the day, they should approve the project, and encourage others like it throughout the neighborhood. The portion of the mall between East 116th and 117th Streets would be one place to start, and indeed, even more housing could easily be accommodated in the surrounding blocks.
East River Plaza residential towers, image by TEN Arquitectos
http://newyorkyimby.com/2014/11/rev...iver-plaza-harlems-new-tallest-buildings.html
Revealed: Three-Towered Plan for East River Plaza, Harlem’s New Tallest Buildings
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON NOVEMBER 10TH 2014 AT 7:00 AM
Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on pinterest_shareShare on google_plusone_shareShare on redditShare on linkedin
East River Plaza residential towers, image by TEN Arquitectos
Earlier this fall, filmmaker Andrew Padilla got his hands on the massing diagram of Forest City Ratner’s proposed East River Plaza redevelopment. The portion of the mall on FDR Drive between East 117th and 119th Streets would give rise to three fifty-odd-story buildings. And now, YIMBY has the first semi-detailed look at the plans, designed by TEN Arquitectos.
East River Plaza residential towers, image by TEN Arquitectos
The three towers would rise atop two podiums placed over the existing mall and parking garage. Previously posted diagrams reveal the tallest of the group will stand 575 feet to its pinnacle, which is certainly tall for Upper Manhattan – taller than 1800 Park Avenue will be, even – but nothing extraordinary for New York City.
Still, the trio of high-rises would dwarf the surrounding tenements and even the public housing farther afield, with even the two shorter buildings clocking in at 515 and 455 feet tall. (The towers are only 47-, 41-, and 32-stories tall, but are boosted an extra 100 or so feet by the mall and transfer decks on which they would be built.)
From up-close, the designs take a more interesting turn. Variegated facades seem to emulate ODA’s work around the city or Herzog & de Meuron’s 56 Leonard. One of the towers would come all the way down to the street at “La Plaza,” which would rework the cobblestone dead-end of East 118th Street into an active public space. Glass cut-outs would be juxtaposed against future displays of public art over the black face of the current mall, integrating art and architecture into a coherent public space.
The project would also include 24,000 square feet of “low-rise” residences (perched 155 feet up, on a podium, and configured in the form of townhomes), plus another 25,000 square feet of amenities and cultural space.
Additionally, while it is difficult to tell in the renderings, the towers will be connected by two skybridges. The West Tower — the tallest of the bunch — will be the anchor, connected to the North Tower by a bridge at an elevation of 245 feet. Its link to the southern tower will be slightly higher up, at 255 feet.
Site overview
Of the towers’ 1,100 apartments, 25 percent would be let at below-market rates, according to Forest City Ratner’s proposal. They would go to households making 30 to 60 percent of the area median income, which this year would work out to anything from $18,000 for an individual to $52,000 for a family of four.
The site already has the zoning to accommodate the residential uses, but East River Plaza must still go through the politicized ULURP process because of a special permit used to build the mall. With a 25 percent affordable set-aside, the project would have more below-market housing than a typical 80/20 development.
The de Blasio administration will surely feel pressured to ask for more, and they may be able to eek a few more units out of the developers. But at the end of the day, they should approve the project, and encourage others like it throughout the neighborhood. The portion of the mall between East 116th and 117th Streets would be one place to start, and indeed, even more housing could easily be accommodated in the surrounding blocks.
East River Plaza residential towers, image by TEN Arquitectos
i know dude eating stupid of of it ...
@ how much stronger gentrification is getting.
It's a dog-eat-dog world man. No place is untouchable.
Yeah, that goes to show you that ownership is necessary for our survival. Now you got these real estate gurus making attempts to gentrify the South Bronx. Even they ain't successful, the mere act of trying to do so means that no place in NYC is safe. The old NYC of the 20th century that people in here rep, is long gone.
KnowledgeDropper
All Star
I go to this hipster bar "D!ck and Janes" in Ft Greene sometimes. The bar is the perfect embodiment of this... Half black, half white but all the blacks are hipsters and you can tell in 3 years it'll be basically all white... Cute girls though (of all kinds)
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