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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.
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]
[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]
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 ...
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: Brownsville: 4 10, 18, and ...
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]
Carver Houses, or George Washington Carver Houses, is a public housing development built and maintained by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) in Spanish Harlem, a neighborhood of Manhattan. [3] [4] Carver Houses has 13 buildings, on a campus with an area of 14.63 acres (5.92 ha). [3]
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 ...