Morris Park’s station is sited in the borough’s largest job center- with 12% of the borough workforce and more than 23,000 jobs within a half-mile of the proposed station - near Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jacobi Hospital, Hutchinson Metro Center and the Bronx Psychiatric Center. In addition to 10,000 new jobs, one of the commitments of the plan is the creation of 6,000 new homes, with at-least one quarter of them income-restricted under the city’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program. Zoning actions are focused on a 46-block area of Parkchester/Van Nest and Morris Park, primarily along the main corridors of East Tremont Avenue, White Plains Road, Bronxdale Avenue, Eastchester Road and Stillwell Avenue and near the two neighborhoods’ future Metro-North stations in Bronx Community Districts 9, 10 and 11. Philps said that city planners are working with the city Department of Transportation and other city agencies on future plans for public realm improvements as well as in-the-works job growth plans with the The Mayor’s Office of Talent and Workforce Development to accompany the new stations. In the second half of 2023, land use recommendations are expected to enter a formal public review process. The stations are expected to open in 2027, but city planners are prepping for the next stage of the project, land use changes that compliment the project.
The line will then connect the New Haven line in New Rochelle to the new Bronx Metro-North stations, before ending up at Penn Station. The Metro-North Penn Station Access Project will transform Amtrak’s Hell Gate Line from two to four tracks in the East Bronx and Westchester County. Photo Robbie Sequeira New Metro-North stations It’s a tool that we know has a lot of power, and we want to utilize it in the best way to serve the Bronx.” Paul Philps, the Bronx borough director for the New York City Department of City Planning, is centering Bronx voices in the next step of two major borough plans.
“Land use and zoning is a powerful tool that we use to unlock development potential, but it also creates an opportunity for job growth and economic development. It’s important to what we do,” said Philps, a former Bronx Community Board 4 district manager who had a hand in the Jerome Avenue rezoning. “There’s a lot of misconception about what we do as an agency, so it’s really to our benefit that we make sure we’re engaging with the community.
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