Located just minutes from the newly renovated and renowned Yankee Stadium, Noonan Towers is a Bronx N.Y. apartment building that maintains an elegant pre-war facade, with a lobby boasting intricate decorative moldings. Legend has it that the iconic Yankee baseball player, Babe Ruth, once lived in this building. The surrounding neighborhood is nestled atop a hill with bold views of the Harlem River and Yankee Stadium, thus the name, Hillbridge Village. Noonan Towers was constructed in the 1930s. At the time, it was advertised as one of the most modern apartment houses in the Bronx.
Restoration of the beautiful lobby at Woodycrest has been a long anticipated project for me. I was first contacted in 2016 by Tim Ross, senior vice president for the Goldfarb Property Co. We began our creative brainstorming process which continued until this past June. We had previously worked together over the years on several other beautiful restorations, and this lobby was no exception. (One of our past restoration projects appeared in the August 2011 issue of W&C; the Riverside Drive restoration project).