Adams Administration Moves Forward With Plan to Build “Fordham Landing South,” Create Vibrant Mixed-Use Community on Underused Stretch of Harlem River
Project Builds on Recent Announcement That Adams Administration Has Created, Preserved, or Planned Over 426,000 Homes for New Yorkers Through Efforts to Date
New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced the city will move forward with “Fordham Landing South,” a transformative affordable housing development along the Bronx waterfront that will create more than 900 affordable homes for New Yorkers. Along with developers Dynamic Star and Lettire, the Adams administration will advance this project along an underused stretch of the Harlem River, creating a new mixed-use community with approximately 927 affordable homes and waterfront public access area. Today’s announcement reinforces Mayor Adams’ ongoing commitment to creating new homes across the entire city, with over 426,000 homes already created, preserved, or planned through the Adams administration’s efforts to date.
“This stretch of the Bronx waterfront has led many lives but will soon be home to over 900 families. Our vision for Fordham Landing South will create nearly a thousand 100-percent affordable units along with a vibrant mixed-use community and new access to the Metro North transit hub,” said Mayor Adams. “When we took office three years ago, our housing situation was at a breaking point: too many families were being pushed out of the housing market and too many plots of land like this one lay empty. So, our administration turned inaction into initiative, shattering affordable housing records year after year after year and passing the first citywide rezoning in six decades to unlock new housing across every neighborhood. The key to your own front door is the key to unlocking the American Dream, and in the Bronx, we are making sure that dream stays strong and affordable.”
“Once again, Mayor Adams and his team deliver on longstanding dreams and opportunities not achieved by previous administrations,” said Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development, and Workforce Adolfo Carrion, Jr. “When I was a city planner, district manager, and councilmember in the 1990s, we were envisioning housing here on Fordham Landing. Now it will finally get done! Working with Dynamic Star, Lettire Construction, and in partnership with New York state, we will provide over 900 units of affordable housing to New Yorkers and beautiful public waterfront space, all adjacent to mass transit easily accessible to the central business district of our global city. Terrific!”
Fordham Landing South will bring over 900 new affordable homes, as well as a vibrant mixed-use community, to the Bronx waterfront. Credit: Perkins Eastman
The vision for Fordham Landing South includes the creation of over 900 new homes — all 100 percent affordable — along the Harlem River waterfront, as well as the construction of two mixed-use buildings, structured parking, a waterfront public access area, a new road, and new access to Metro North to redevelop a vacant riverfront site that is immediately south of the University Heights Bridge. The 927 affordable units will serve a variety of income levels, with at least 15 percent dedicated to formerly homeless families. The project will be financed, in part, by both the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and additionally, the project has received a $55 million award from New York state, administered by Empire State Development (ESD), to assist with site infrastructure.
Since entering office, Mayor Adams has made historic investments to create more affordable housing and ensure more New Yorkers have a place to call home. Last week, Mayor Adams announced that his administration has created, preserved, or planned approximately 426,800 homes for New Yorkers through its work to date. Mayor Adams also announced that, in Fiscal Year 2025, the Adams administration created the most affordable rental units in city history and celebrated back-to-back-to-back record-breaking years for producing permanently-affordable homes for formerly-homeless New Yorkers, placing homeless New Yorkers into housing, and connecting New Yorkers to housing through the city’s housing lottery.
In addition to creating and preserving record amounts of affordable and market-rate housing for New Yorkers, the Adams administration has also passed ambitious plans that will create tens of thousands of new homes as well. Last December, Mayor Adams celebrated the passage of “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity,” the most pro-housing proposal in city history that will build 80,000 new homes over 15 years and invest $5 billion towards critical infrastructure updates and housing.
The Adams administration is also advancing several robust neighborhood plans that, if adopted, would deliver nearly 50,000 units over the next 15 years to New York neighborhoods. In addition to the Bronx-Metro North Station Area Plan and the Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan, both of which have been passed by the New York City Council, the Adams administration is advancing plans in Midtown South in Manhattan, as well as Jamaica and Long Island City in Queens.
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