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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]
Left NYCHA in 2017 to become a tenant-managed co-op. Hammel Houses: Rockaway Beach: 14 6 and 7 712 April 30, 1955 International Tower: South Jamaica: 1 10 153 May 31, 1983 Latimer Gardens: Flushing: 4 10 434 September 30, 1970 Leavitt House: Flushing: 1 6 83 October 17, 1974 Ocean Bay Apartments (Bayside) Far Rockaway: 24 7 and 9 1,378 ...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the launch of a program providing free high-speed internet and basic cable TV to 300,000 New Yorkers living in more than 200 New York City Housing Authority...
The Farragut Houses are located in what used to be a heavily industrial area, near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. [4] The site was occupied by 341 lots by 1941, of which 27 were vacant. Of the 314 lots that were extant, 198 consisted of wood structures. [ 5 ]
The current and former NYCHA employees, 66 of whom were arrested on Tuesday morning, according to Williams' office, are each 70 New York public housing employees took bribes from contractors, US ...
From November 2013 until January 2016, the NYC Housing, Preservation and Development agency, which is responsible for oversight of the city’s vast stock of multi-unit residential buildings, issued more than 10,000 violations for dangerous lead paint conditions in units with children under the age of six, the age group most at risk of ingesting lead paint.
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]