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Bernard M. Baruch Houses, or Baruch Houses, is a public housing development built by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.Baruch Houses is bounded by Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive to the east, E. Houston Street to the north, Columbia Street to the west, and Delancey Street to the south. [3]
East New York: Penn.-Wortman Avs. Houses: East New York: 3 8 and 16 336 September 30, 1972: Park Rock Rehab. Crown Heights: 9 4 134 February 28, 1986: Prospect Plaza: Ocean Hill: 4 12 and 15 368 June 30, 1974: Summer of 2014 First NYCHA development to be demolished Ralph Av. Rehab: Brownsville: 5 4 118 December 31, 1986: Red Hook East Houses ...
Rutgers Houses, also known as Henry Rutgers Houses, is a public housing development built and maintained by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Rutgers Houses is composed of five 20 story buildings on 5.22 acres (21,100 m 2 ), with 721 apartments housing approximately 1,675 people. [ 3 ]
Vladeck in 1924. The development is named after Baruch Charney Vladeck (1886–1938), who was general manager of The Jewish Daily Forward, a Yiddish language newspaper, helped found the Jewish Labor Committee in 1934, served as its first president, and was a member of the original board of the New York City Housing Authority.
The razing of buildings for the construction of the complex began in 1950, and the buildings were completed on April 1, 1953. [3] [7]The key sponsor of the development was State assemblyman John J. Lamula and it was named after four-time New York Governor Al Smith (1873–1944), the first Catholic to win a Presidential nomination by a major political party and a social reformer who made ...
Goodman is a member of the Manhattan South District Citywide Council of Presidents. [ 10 ] Lower East Side I Infill is serviced by the fifth precinct of the New York City Police Department , the majority of which is Chinatown , and is governed by Manhattan Community Board 3 , which governs the Lower East Side, the East Village , Chinatown, and ...
The Lillian Wald Houses are a NYCHA housing project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan that honors the housing advocate of the same name. [2] [3] The cornerstone was laid on East Sixth Street and Avenue D in 1947 following a change in state financing laws for which Lillian Wald campaigned.
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]