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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]
South Jamaica Houses is a housing project in South Jamaica, Queens, New York.It is nicknamed "40 Projects." [1] [2] [3] The original complex, South Jamaica I Houses opened in 1940, [4] [5] while the second complex, South Jamaica II Houses, opened in 1954. [4]
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.
Baisley Park Houses is a housing project in South Jamaica, Queens, New York, completed on April 30, 1961.The development consists of five, 8-story buildings with 386 apartment units for an estimated 1,057 people.
Hunter's Point South is a mixed-use development situated on approximately 30 acres of prime waterfront property in 30 acres (120,000 m 2) in Long Island City, the westernmost neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens.
East River Queens West waterfront in 2006. Queens West is a district and redevelopment project along the East River in Long Island City, Queens, New York City.The project, located on Hunter's Point south of the Anable Basin, is a joint project sponsored by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ) [1] and the Empire State Development Corporation (ESD).
The Orchard is a residential skyscraper located at 27-48 Jackson Avenue in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York City.At 823 feet (251 m) tall, The Orchard is the tallest building in Queens, as well as the second-tallest building in New York City outside of Manhattan, behind the 1,066-foot (325 m) Brooklyn Tower.
In 1992, New York City settled a lawsuit brought on behalf of 100,000 families who claimed that the city had steered all white families applying for public housing into Pomonok and had provided that project with higher standards of care and maintenance than projects inhabited by majority Black and Hispanic families. [7]