Two upscale developments offer two divergent futures for the South Bronx. JDavidsonNYC writes on how they're architecturally similar but socially at odds
The new Bankside development on the Harlem River. Photo: Marc Goldberg The Bronx is rising. Look up Third Avenue from Manhattan, and instead of the low brown smudge that was once the skyline beyond the Harlem River, you now see the giant ramparts of Bankside. One, two, three towers watch over the bendy waterway — and they are only the start of the borough’s vertical perimeter. As go Williamsburg and Long Island City, so goes Mott Haven.
Bankside, built on contaminated, disused industrial land that had been consigned to parking, displaced nobody directly. Will gentrification ensue? As night follows day. A slow-moving real-estate boom has been rolling toward the South Bronx for years now. Familiar symptoms of acute gentritis are scattered among low-rise industrial blocks, thick cords of infrastructure, a waste-transfer station, and state offices of corrections and parole.
The architects at Hill West wisely embraced both the site’s awkwardness and its brawn. To get some distance from the knotty, noisy ground plane, they lifted the tower on concrete stilts, so you enter the paved court beneath a structure that feels like a majestic portal crossed with a highway viaduct. The same negotiation between gritty manufacturing past and palatial domestic future also dictated the palette of raw concrete, mottled brick, and exposed I-beams.
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