LOCATION: BRONX, NY
TYPE: PRESERVATION
STATUS: IN DESIGN
CLIENT: BRONX RIVER ALLIANCE, YOUTH MINISTRIES FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
PRE-SCHEMATIC TEAM (2022 – ON GOING): AMANDA SCHACHTER, ALEXANDER LEVI, DUGAN LUNDAY
PRE-DESIGN TEAM (2012 – 2022): AMANDA SCHACHTER, ALEXANDER LEVI, GABRIEL MUNNICH, BARBARA HEMETSBERGER, SHARIF ANOUS, JEE HYUNG PARK
CONSULTANTS: SILMAN ENGINEERING, JABLONSKI BUILDING CONSERVATION
SUPPORT: JM KAPLAN FUND, JAMES MARSTON FITCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, BRONX RIVER ALLIANCE, LOVING THE BRONX, KRAMER LEVIN
Bronx River Right-of-Way (2012- ongoing) proposes the relocation and adaptive reuse of the abandoned Westchester Avenue Station, currently off limits and in ruins along the Lower Bronx River. The building is one of thirteen station-stops designed between 1908 and 1916 by Cass Gilbert, for the defunct New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Bronx River Right of Way provides a strategic framework for re-situating the Westchester Avenue station house as a vital node within the Bronx River network, by re-siting it in adjacent Concrete Plant Park, linked to the waterways and waterfronts of Greater New York.
