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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.
On the same day as Ulysses's death, William Russell Grace, the mayor of New York City, sent a telegram to Julia offering New York City as the burial ground for both Grants. [11] [19] [20] Grace gave Julia a list of city parks where her husband could be buried, [10] [12] and she agreed to have Ulysses's remains interred in New York City. [21]
Grampion Houses: Harlem: 1 7 35 May 31, 1977: Grant Houses: Manhattanville: 9 13 and 21 1,940 September 30, 1957: Harborview Terrace: Clinton: 2 14 and 15 377 June 30, 1977: Harlem River Houses: Harlem: 7 4 and 5 571 October 1, 1937: Hernandez Houses: Lower East Side: 1 17 149 August 31, 1971: Holmes Towers: Yorkville: 2 25 537 April 30, 1969 ...
The superlative demographics of NYC’s five boroughs have been freshly mapped. A free, interactive online tool managed by the Department of City Planning has been updated with 2020 Census data ...
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]
New York City is split up into five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Each borough has the same boundaries as a county of the state. The county governments were dissolved when the city consolidated in 1898, along with all city, town, and village governments within each county.
A map of Upper Manhattan, with Harlem in red. Upper Manhattan is the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.Its southern boundary has been variously defined, but some of the most common usages are 96th Street, 110th Street (the northern boundary of Central Park), 125th Street, or 155th Street.
Populations before 1898 are for the areas now enclosed in the present boroughs. Since 1914, each of New York City's five boroughs has been coextensive with a county of New York State – unlike most U.S. cities, which lie within a single county or extend partially into another county, constitute a county in themselves, or are completely ...