All Posts Tagged With: "green Bronx"

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 [...]

7Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | 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 [...]

16Nov2007 | 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. [...]

15Aug2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued