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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]
This is a list of buildings held by the New York City Housing Authority, a public corporation that provides affordable housing in New York City, U.S. This list is divided geographically by the five boroughs of New York City : Manhattan , the Bronx , Brooklyn , Queens , and Staten Island .
NYCHA broke ground in December 1945 and were completed on July 15, 1947. Designed by William Lescaze , they were one of the first examples of high rise tower in the park style. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] The Chelsea Houses were designed by architect Paul L. Wood [ 6 ] and construction started in 1961 and completed on May 31, 1964.
The Robert Fulton Houses is a housing project located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, owned and operated by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). The 6.27-acre (2.54 ha) site is located between West 16th and 19th Streets and bound by Ninth and Tenth Avenues. The project consists of 945 apartments in eleven ...
Queensbridge Houses, also known simply as Queensbridge or QB, is a public housing development in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York City.Owned by the New York City Housing Authority, the development contains 96 buildings and 3,142 units accommodating approximately 7,000 people in two separate complexes (North and South). [1]
The Louis Heaton Pink Houses or Pink Houses are a housing project in New York City that were established in the East New York neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1959. It consists of 22 eight-storey buildings with 1,500 apartment units over a 31.1-acre expanse, bordered by Crescent Street, Linden Boulevard, Elderts Lane and Stanley Avenue.
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]
In 2014, tenants of the Clinton Houses sued NYCHA for negligence resulting in disrepair and public health hazards. [ 9 ] Sylvia Velazquez is currently serving as the Resident Association President for Clinton Houses, and is a member of the Manhattan North District Citywide Council of Presidents. [ 10 ]