The Bronx
Intervale Green: Affordable, Sustainable, & Wired in the Bronx
Intervale Green is a $45 million, 127-unit affordable housing development under construction in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. Project sponsor WHEDC teamed with energy consultant Steven Winter Associates to reduce the building’s expected energy costs by 35 percent through numerous sustainable design elements, including the installation of EnergyStar appliances and light fixtures. Other green design features include two different green roofs, low-e windows, and non-toxic paints and sealants- important because the Morrisania neighborhood holds the unfortunate distinction of the highest asthma rate in the Bronx
Popularity: 23% [?]
2Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Serviam Gardens: Affordable Green Living for Bronx Seniors
Serviam Gardens will be a 240-unit housing development for low- to middle-income senior citizens when it opens in the last quarter of 2009. Developed by Bronx-based affordable housing developer Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation, the $66 million project is set to break ground tomorrow and will rise in a vacant lot behind Mount Saint Ursula’s convent and girls’ high school in Bedford Park in the Bronx. OCV Architects designed the two-tower project, which will incorporate a number of unspecified green design features pursuant to Enterprise Green Communities Criteria.
Popularity: 21% [?]
1Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
ML: Anheuser-Busch Warehouse, Hunts Point, South Bronx
Anheuser-Busch broke ground last September on a 167,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution facility on Hunts Point in the South Bronx. The $40 million, project is seeking an unspecified level of LEED certification and should open up sometime in October. The warehouse will sit on the site of a former brownfield and is supported by a pile foundation system; soils at the site are extremely unstable and the piles are necessary to brace the heavy traffic from Anheuser-Busch’s local fleet of 70 freight trucks. Specific green features also include a graywater irrigation system and native landscaping across the warehouse’s 13.5 acres.
Popularity: 19% [?]
30Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Clean Energy to Power Madagascar Exhibition at Bronx Zoo Lion House
The New York Power Authority announced yesterday that it will install a fuel cell at the FXFOWLE-designed Lion House at the Bronx Zoo. The installation will offset 200 kilowatts of electrical demand at the landmarked, Beaux-Arts Lion House, which is on track for a LEED Gold rating from USGBC. The project broke ground back in 2006 and is part of a larger renovation of the Zoo’s Astor Court; the Lion House itself has remained vacant since the lions were moved outdoors almost twenty years ago.
Popularity: 18% [?]
20Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Baseball’s All-Star Game to Bid Green Farewell to House That Ruth Built
While the New York Yankees have been mum on the green design features (if any, though the project is not seeking a LEED rating) at their new $1 billion stadium in the Bronx which will open up next April, Major League Baseball announced today that next month’s All-Star Game (July 15) at the current Yankee Stadium across the street will be “the greenest event in MLB’s history.” MLB has partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council to promote environmental awareness at this year’s Midsummer Classic.
Popularity: 29% [?]
5Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Fordham’s Campbell Hall: Green Higher Education in the Bronx
Fordham University will begin construction in late April on two new seven-story residential buildings at its Rose Hill campus in the Bronx, both designed by Sasaki Associates to achieve an unspecified level of LEED certification. Together, the residence halls will offer 166,000 square feet of living space, divided into four- and six-person suites. Sasaki is still ironing out green design features, but it’s possible that the project could include rooftop rainwater collection systems, as well as LEED-standard efficient lighting and recycled construction materials.
Popularity: 10% [?]
22Feb2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
LEED-H Works at Affordable Morrisania Homes in the Bronx
The February issue of Affordable Housing Finance magazine has a detailed article about the Morrisania Homes, certified Silver under the new LEED for Homes (”LEED-H”) standard. As gbNYC reported back in August, Morrisania is the first community in New York State certified under LEED-H. Made up of twenty-eight townhouses, the community’s developer, Blue Sea Development Company, signed on to use LEED for Homes during the standard’s Pilot Program phase (which is now closed). The project also checked in at #3 on gbNYC’s list of the top 5 New York City green buildings from 2007.
Popularity: 14% [?]
7Feb2008 | Meredith Taylor | 1 comment | Continued
Bronx Zoo Eco Restroom Named 2007 Project of the Year
Perhaps we didn’t jump the gun here at gbNYC by presenting our top five New York City green buildings to you earlier this week- New York Construction’s December feature is the magazine’s Best of 2007 list, which offers a selection of top New York City projects across a number of industry sectors A number of […]
Popularity: 12% [?]
7Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
1347 Bristow Street in the Bronx: LEED Silver for $5/sf Premium
In a letter to the editor that appeared in this week’s edition of Crain’s, Richard M. Cherry, President of the Community Environmental Center (“CEC”), described his organization’s experience at 1347 Bristow Street in order to make a general point about green building cost premiums. The $3.7 million project, a twenty-five unit apartment building in the […]
Popularity: 10% [?]
16Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Green Affordable Housing: Jacob’s Place, Bronx, New York
Jacob’s Place is a sixty-three unit, eight-story rental building in the Fordham section of the Bronx that was dedicated earlier this month. Developed by Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation, a Bronx-based affordable housing developer, the project broke ground in August of 2005 and is named for Astin Jacobo, a resident of the Crotona neighborhood of the […]
Popularity: 16% [?]
31Oct2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Video Profile of Bronx Zoo’s Green Restrooms
Earlier this summer, host Vanessa Rae and RiverWired’s Pulse profiled the Bronx Zoo’s new eco-friendly restrooms, which we’ve written about previously at gbNYC. The video does a great job of presenting the details behind the restrooms- which, according to Crain’s, feature eighteen composting toilets that cost $250,000 each- and describing exactly how the fixtures […]
Popularity: 7% [?]
28Sep2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Morrisania Homes in The Bronx Earn NY’s First Affordable Housing LEED-H Rating
The Morrisania Homes, a sixty-four unit development in the South Bronx that includes sixteen three-family and eight two-family homes, just became New York’s first affordable housing project to receive certification under USGBC’s LEED for Homes (”LEED-H”) Pilot Program (which should launch formally sometime this fall) and the first LEED-H Certified residences in New York City. […]
Popularity: 16% [?]
15Aug2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
NYC Brokers Back Affordable LEED Housing Development in Brooklyn
Brokers Build is a campaign spearheaded by New York City’s real estate brokers to raise $1 million in order to help build a forty-one unit, three building affordable condominium development in Brooklyn in cooperation with Habitat for Humanity- double the number of homes that Habitat constructs in New York during a typical year. Designed […]
Popularity: 6% [?]
8Jun2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued-
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