Overview
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani, NYC Health + Hospitals and development partners held a groundbreaking on Tuesday for River Commons, a 17‑story mixed‑use building in the South Bronx with construction now underway.
- The project is planned to deliver 328 apartments with 98 designated as permanent supportive housing for NYC Health + Hospitals patients experiencing homelessness and the remainder reserved for income‑restricted households, though reporting conflicts on whether that non‑supportive portion is 229 or 131 units.
- River Commons will house a 43,000‑square‑foot Gotham Health primary care facility built into the residential tower, the first time NYC Health + Hospitals has placed a clinic of this size on hospital property inside a housing project.
- Developers Type A Projects, BronxWorks and L+M secured about a $255 million financing package that uses HDC bonds, HPD new‑construction funds and low‑income housing tax credits, with delivery targeted for 2027.
- The site includes on‑site social and workforce services run by BronxWorks, 6,000 square feet of community space for partners like African Communities Together, a public green space, and city policy ties to Mayor Mamdani’s housing acceleration efforts that aim to speed approvals and increase supportive‑housing funding.