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First NYCHA development to be demolished Ralph Av. Rehab: Brownsville: 5 4 118 December 31, 1986: Red Hook East Houses: Red Hook: 27 2 and 6 2,528 November 20, 1939: Red Hook West Houses: Red Hook: 3 3 and 14 345 May 31, 1955: the location of the 1991 film, Straight Out of Brooklyn: Roosevelt Houses: Bedford-Stuyvesant: 6 14, 15 and 16 762 ...
[10] [11] By 2018, the frieze was in disrepair with NYCHA unable to fund due to capital needs. [12] As of 2021, the deferred maintenance and repair costs to restore the frieze are estimated to be nearly $1.8 million dollars. [13] Landscape architect Gilmore Clarke designed the development's grounds in a style reminiscent of city parks of the ...
In January of that year, [5] NYCHA broke ground [6] and the project was completed by June of 1949. [7] The development included a community center, playground, and public park. [8] The Gowanus Houses was the setting for Spike Lee's 1995 film, Clockers, [9] in which it was renamed the "Nelson Mandela Houses" for the movie. [10]
NYCHA is a public-benefit corporation, controlled by the Mayor of New York City, and organized under the State's Public Housing Law. [6] [11] The NYCHA ("NYCHA Board") consists of seven members, of which the chairman is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the Mayor of New York City, while the others are appointed for three-year terms by the mayor. [12]
The Williamsburg Houses, originally called the Ten Eyck Houses (pronounced TEN-IKE), is a public housing complex built and operated by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. It consists of 20 buildings on a site bordered by Scholes, Maujer, and Leonard Streets and Bushwick Avenue. [3]
The Housing Committee's proposals for the development were held in 1959. At the hearing Jane Jacobs accused NYCHA of discriminating against the poor through displacement and embracing architecture oriented for middle-class need, advocating instead for retaining the social structure of the community by mixing low-rise buildings in with typical high-rises.
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Managed by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), they comprise the largest housing development in Brooklyn. [1] The Red Hook Houses are composed of Red Hook East and Red Hook West. Red Hook East is composed of 16 residential buildings and three non-residential buildings with 1,411 total units and roughly 3,000 residents.