At 790 Concourse Village on the Grand Concourse, tenants say their six-story apartment building is literally coming apart while their rents keep climbing. Residents describe a collapsed parking garage, open ceilings, unreliable heat and the loss of a courtyard and children's play area, and say long-promised fixes have yet to show up. Longtime neighbors say deferred maintenance, paired with rising out-of-pocket costs, is squeezing households that rely on fixed incomes.
“The infrastructure of this building is basically caving in,” said resident Elizabeth Turkel, adding that “slowly but surely, we're losing ground” as green space and common areas disappear. Another longtime renter, Emma, told reporters she once paid about $60 a month for a parking spot in the building’s garage and now shells out more than $300 at a nearby lot after the garage was shut down. Those accounts, along with outreach to building management that reportedly went unanswered, were detailed by News 12 New York.
City records show violations and an aging structure
Property data compiled by PincusCo list 790 Grand Concourse (Concourse Village West) as an 85-unit building that went up in 1926 and is listed to Residential Management (NY). The listing shows a small number of recent Department of Buildings violations and dozens of housing complaints, which line up with tenants' descriptions of chronic maintenance problems. Public records do not settle disputes about promised repairs or donated funds, but they do create a paper trail of inspections and official notices.
Partial vacate closed the garage and raised costs
Inspectors reportedly ordered a partial vacate of the garage’s top level after spotting cracked concrete beams, leaving cars at risk of being towed and pushing many residents to hunt for pricey off-site parking. Tenants say that move sent monthly parking costs from roughly $60 to more than $300 for some households, an unexpected bill that hit tight budgets hard. The shutdown, a building memo to residents and the Department of Buildings note that repair permits are on file were reported by News 12 New York.
What tenants can do and what organizers want
Organizers and residents say they plan to keep pressing the building board and local elected officials for a clear repair timeline and for discounted parking options while work is arranged. If conditions do not improve, tenants can document problems and file housing or building complaints through NYC311, where the city explains how to report housing and building code violations. For now, neighbors say the mix of deteriorating infrastructure and rising costs has left longtime residents feeling pushed out of a Bronx block they have called home for decades.
