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General Ulysses S. Grant Houses or Grant Houses is a public housing project at the northern boundary of Morningside Heights in the borough of Manhattan, New York City.The complex consists of 10 buildings with over 1,940 apartment units on 15.05-acres and is located between Broadway and Morningside Avenue, spanning oddly shaped superblocks from 123rd Street and La Salle Street to 125th Street.
Say Yes to Education, Inc. (Say Yes) is a U.S. non-profit organization that seeks to improve inner-city education. The main focus of Say Yes is to increase high school and college graduation rates by offering a range of support services to at-risk, economically disadvantaged youths and families, and by pledging full scholarships for a college or vocational education to children living in poverty.
East New York: 15 7 1,442 May 31, 1955: East New York City Line Houses: East New York: 33 3 63 March 31, 1976: Farragut Houses: Downtown Brooklyn: 10 13 and 14 1,390 April 30, 1952: Fenimore Houses: East Flatbush: 18 2 36 September 30, 1969: Fiorentino Houses: East New York: 8 4 160 October 31, 1971: Glenmore Plaza: Brownsville: 4 10, 18, and ...
Another development in the neighborhood was Grant Houses, a New York City Housing Authority public-housing development located to the east of Morningside Gardens, across Amsterdam Avenue. [138] Completed in 1956, [ 139 ] it was less successful in racial integration [ 138 ] but was praised by local landlords as a deterrent to urban decay. [ 140 ]
The New York Times ran an article on October 12, 2010, "Lauded Harlem Schools Have Their Own Problems", [35] in which they exposed the "low student performance in most of the neighborhood's public schools" and the dismissal, by the board of trustees, of an entire class of 8th graders when their performance was deemed "too weak to found a high ...
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Manhattanville Houses is a public housing project in the Manhattanville section of West Harlem, in the borough of Manhattan, New York City.The project is located between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, spanning a superblock from 129th Street to 133rd Street and is managed by the New York City Housing Authority.