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[4] [5] [6] The first Buildings Department was created in Manhattan in 1892. In 1901 the New York State Legislature passed the Tenement Housing Act of 1901, which established a city Tenement Housing Department, including a Buildings Bureau and a Bureau of Inspection. [7] A citywide Department of Buildings though did not exist until 1936. [4]
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.
The Jacob Riis Houses are a public housing project managed by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) in the East Village in New York City. The project is located between Avenue D and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive, spanning two superblocks from 6th Street to 13th Street. The project consists of thirteen buildings, between six and 14 ...
This is a list of neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Manhattan arranged geographically from the north of the island to the south. The following approximate definitions are used: Upper Manhattan is the area above 96th Street. Midtown Manhattan is the area between 34th Street and 59th Street. Lower Manhattan is the area below 14th Street.
JPMorgan Chase Building; Madison Square Garden; Manhattan House; Museum of Arts and Design; New York Life Building; Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963) St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan) the Stewart House, 21-story, full-block apartment building designed by Sylvan Bien and located at 70 East 10th Street [1] Starrett-Lehigh Building; Trump ...
Combined, these buildings have 2.9 million square feet (270,000 m 2). [3] [5] Baruch Houses Addition, or Baruch Addition, is an eighteenth building for seniors, built in 1977. [6] [7] Baruch Addition is located on Columbia Street, at the start of Rivington Street, and has 197 units in twenty-three stories. [5] [6] [7]
The Harlem River Houses is a New York City Housing Authority public housing complex between 151st Street, 153rd Street, Macombs Place, and the Harlem River Drive in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
The development was approved by the New York City Planning Commission on February 7, 1952, as a low-rent housing project to be erected on a 22.5-acre (91,000 m 2) site, a "superblock" bounded by Manhattan Avenue, Amsterdam Avenue and West 100th and 104th Streets. [4]