Tremont: Building Applications Filed with DOB for 256 Mount Hope Place in Tremont

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Building applications have been filed with New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) for a new, 6-story, residential building at 256 Mount Hope Place in the Tremont section of The Bronx, as reported by YIMBY. Located between Monroe and Anthony Avenues, the lot is a 5-minute walk to the Tremont Avenue subway station, serviced by the B and D trains. Moshe Steinmetz, under MS Investments 3 LLC, is listed as the owner behind the applications. The proposed 70-foot tall development will yield 9,620 square feet designated for residential space, according to YIMBY. The building will have 21 residential

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Building applications have been filed with New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) for “a vertical and horizontal enlargement” of a 2-story structure into a 4-story residential building at 51 West 174th Street in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx, as reported by YIMBY. Located between Macombs Road and Grand Avenue, the lot is a 5-minute walk to the 176th Street subway station, serviced by the 4 train. Yitzi Salamon is listed as the owner behind the applications. The proposed 55-foot-tall development will yield 13,179 square feet designated for residential space. The building will have 25 residential

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Building applications have been filed with New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) to expand an existing two-story, two-family structure into a four-story, residential building at 2835 Sedgwick Avenue in the Kingsbridge Heights section of The Bronx, as reported by YIMBY. Located between Perot Street and West Kingsbridge Avenue, the lot is a 7-minute walk from Kingsbridge Road subway station, servicing the D line, and a 13-minute walk from the 231st Street subway station, servicing the 1 train. Yaakov Lefkowitz of Lefko Capital Group is listed as the owner behind the applications. The proposed 54-foot-tall development will yield

By EMILY SAWAKED

The following is an extended version of the story that appears in our latest print edition. The Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC) hosted a candidates’ forum at Monroe College on Wednesday, May 26, for candidates running in the 78th and the 81st Assembly Districts in the upcoming June Democratic primaries. Both Assemblyman José Rivera (A.D. 78), who was not present on the night, was re-elected to his seat in 2000, having previously served in the Assembly from 1982 to 1987 and who won in 2020 with over 86 percent of the vote, and Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (A.D. 81),

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Building applications have been filed with NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) to expand a two-story, two-home structure into a seven-story residential building at 2073 Ryer Avenue in the Tremont section of The Bronx, as reported by YIMBY. Located between East Burnside Avenue and East 180th Street, the lot is two blocks from the 182nd-183rd Street subway station, serviced by the B and D trains. According to YIMBY, Aleksander Mici is listed as the owner behind the applications. The proposed 60-foot-tall development will yield 13,116 square feet designated for residential space. The building will have 23 residential units, most

By DAVID GREENE & SÍLE MOLONEY

The public relations firm representing Jerome Park’s Tracey Towers housing complex, responded to a Norwood News story published in our April 21-May 4 edition, in which we reported on a wall collapse and stop work order in place by New York City Department of Buildings (DOB), which temporarily shut the Tracey Towers playground. In the statement issued by Bill Corbett of Corbett Public Relations, with copy to a second PR firm representative, Don Miller of West End Strategies, on Monday, May 2, Corbett wrote, “The safety of residents and the public remains the number one priority of Tracey Towers Associates.

By SÍLE MOLONEY

An affordable housing lottery has launched for units at 1985 Honeywell Avenue, an eight-story mixed-use building in the West Farms section of the Bronx, as reported by YIMBY. Designed by Fred Geremia Architects & Planners, and developed by Durgaj Properties, the property yields 33 residential units, according to YIMBY. Available on NYC Housing Connect, the online portal for NYC Department of Housing, Preservation & Development are 10 units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $60,000 to $187,330. Amenities include assigned parking spaces, bike storage, elevator, digital intercom system,

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Building applications have been filed with New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) for a new, four-story, residential building at 2621 Grand Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx, as reported by YIMBY. Located between West 192nd Street and West Kingsbridge Road, the lot is two blocks west of the Kingsbridge Road subway station, serviced by the 4 train. Franc Gjini of 2625 Grand Avenue Corp. is listed as the owner behind the applications. According to YIMBY, the proposed 40-foot-tall development will yield 20,716 square feet designated for residential space. The building will have 34 residential

By SÍLE MOLONEY

A 25-year-old male driver has died in a single vehicle accident in Eastchester after allegedly losing control of his vehicle on a bend, overshooting a ramp, and driving into a home located beneath an elevated thruway. On Thursday, May 26, at approximately 6.57 p.m., police responded to a 911 call regarding a motor vehicle accident on the southbound New England Thruway near exit 14, in Eastchester, located in the 47th precinct. Police officials said, “A preliminary investigation determined that a 2009 black, Mercedes Benz C300 sedan [was] travelling southbound on the New England Thruway.” They said the vehicle

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