Briar Hill

Briar Hill is a multi-building rental apartment complex in Riverdale, the Bronx, listed here at 600 West 246th Street, with Glenwood Management as manager on record. It is a complex rather than a single building: two mid-century residential buildings at 600 and 630 West 246th Street, set on landscaped grounds in the leafy north-west corner of the Bronx.

The complex sits near Independence Avenue in the hills above the Hudson, a short distance from Wave Hill, Riverdale Park and the Henry Hudson Parkway. Van Cortlandt Park is to the east. Metro-North’s Hudson Line stops at Riverdale station, express buses run to Midtown Manhattan, and the 1 stops at 242nd Street-Van Cortlandt Park.

Completed in 1958, the two buildings hold 806 apartments, and Briar Hill is the oldest Glenwood Management property in this index. Like much of Riverdale’s mid-century housing, it offers generous layouts and landscaped grounds that are hard to find closer to Manhattan.

For renters, the appeal is space and quiet at rents generally below Manhattan’s, with Wave Hill’s gardens and Riverdale’s Hudson views nearby. The trade-off is the commute: most residents rely on Metro-North, express buses or a car.