Developer Plans 7-Story Harlem Apartment Building

HARLEM, NY — Developers filed plans with the city this month to build a new apartment complex near Harlem's Macomb's Dam Bridge, which connects Manhattan to the Bronx at West 155th Street.

The new building will rise seven stories on Macombs Place between West 154th and West 155th Streets and contain 30 apartment units, according to plans filed with the city Department of Buildings. With 21,892 square feet of residential space, the average apartment will be about 729 square feet large.

Planned residential amenities at the new development include storage space, an indoor recreation room, bicycle parking and a rooftop terrace, according to building plans. The firm hired to design the building is Fischer + Makooi Architects.

MCM Development is listed on public records as the builder behind the new apartment complex. Plans were filed in 2018 to demolish an existing one-story commercial structure that currently occupies the development site.

The city issued a full vacate order on the site in 2017 due to a collapsed cellar ceiling, public records show. The collapse broke a water pipe and caused the cellar to flood, and seep through the cellar and exposure walls of the building, according to the DOB vacate order.