SoBro or LoCo?

First there was the rezoning of Long Island City, then the infamous Williamsburg-Greenpoint Waterfront. Now the Dept. of City Planning presents the third waterfront rezoning of the Bloomberg era, the Lower Grand Concourse! At a time when half finished condo towers are blighting up new sections of skyline, the Department of City Planning has given the go ahead to a rezoning of the South Bronx waterfront south of E 149th St, now filled with auto body shops and warehouses. The idea is to create a new SoHo in SoBro, a way to open up new loft space for artists and transform a neighborhood with one of the highest levels of asthma in the country with new parks. Let's hope this trilogy works out better than the Godfather Part III.

• Lower Concourse Rezoning [Dept. of City Planning]
• Lower Concourse Lift [Daily News]