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Cypress Hills Houses: 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 ...
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]
In 1938 the property, reported to be the smallest plot in New York City, was sold to the adjacent Village Cigars store (United Cigars at that time) for US$100 (equivalent to $2,165 in 2023). [8] Later, Yeshiva University came to own the property, including the Hess Triangle, and in October 1995 [ 9 ] it was sold by Yeshiva to 70 Christopher ...
East 20th Street looking east in the direction of First Avenue in 1938. This picture shows two of the huge gas holders that gave the area the name Gas House District; the block in the foreground did not become part of the Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village complex, but the area on the east side of First Avenue, where the tanks are, did.
The house was designated a New York City landmark in 1979 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The house was listed for sale by Christie’s Real Estate in April 2022 for $33 million. [3] The owner at the time was Bassam Alghanim, the Kuwaiti billionaire co-owner of the Alghanim Industries conglomerate. [4]
In the 2024 presidential election, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris carried New York City's Borough of Manhattan by 81% and the city itself by 68%, but Knickerbocker Village handed Donald Trump a 16 vote margin victory out of roughly 500 votes cast. The difference was 251 for Trump and 235 for Harris, which resulted in Trump's only precinct ...
The home is quite spacious, and not just by New York City standards. It has four floors and a cellar combining for 4,776 square feet of space. According to Zillow, the home last sold in 2009 for ...
New York City has seen a cycle of modest boom and a bust in the 1980s, a major boom in the 1990s, and mixed prospects since then. This period has seen severe racial tension, a dramatic spike and fall of crime rates, and a major influx of immigrants growing the city's population past the eight million mark.