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47-639: The Elliott-Chelsea Houses is a combined housing project of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), located between West 25th and 27th Streets and Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan , New York City . It consists of two contiguous projects which were originally separate but have been combined for administrative purposes: the John Lovejoy Elliott Houses , named after

94-549: A building or structure in Manhattan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . New York City Housing Authority The New York City Housing Authority's goal is to increase opportunities for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers by providing affordable housing and facilitating access to public service and community services . More than 360,000 New Yorkers reside in NYCHA's 335 public housing developments across

141-604: A long waiting list for its apartments. Because of demand, the Housing Authority in recent years, has selected more "working families" from applicants to diversify the income structure of occupants of its housing, as had been typical of residents who first occupied the facilities. NYCHA's Conventional Public Housing Program has 175,636 apartments (as of 2018) in 325 developments throughout the city. NYCHA has approximately 13,000 employees serving about 173,946 families and approximately 392,259 authorized residents. Based on

188-505: A modern city. Moses indicated later in life that he was disappointed at how the public housing system fell into decline and disrepair. The majority of NYCHA developments were built between 1945 and 1965. Unlike most cities, New York depended heavily on city and state funds to build its housing after the Federal Housing Act of 1937 expired and a new bill wasn't agreed upon until the Federal Housing Act of 1949 , rather than just

235-577: A more stable source of federal funding". In 2018, a city-wide survey of NYCHA properties found that the organization needs $ 31.8 billion over five years to address unmet capital repairs including replacing broken elevators, upgrading faulty heating systems, and fix run-down kitchens and bathrooms. Despite its needed repairs, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is cutting the agency's budget to encourage NYCHA to rely on partnerships with private property managers while Governor Andrew Cuomo

282-893: A newly created public entity - a Public Housing Preservation Trust. In February, 2021 the Chelsea NYCHA Working Group released their plan for the Elliott-Chelsea Houses and the Fulton Houses and the city released an RFP for it. In October, 2012, Hurricane Sandy turned out to be the single most destructive event in the history of the New York City Housing Authority. The storm impacted approximately 10% of NYCHA's developments, which left 400 buildings without power, and 386 buildings without heat and hot water. In February 2014, NYCHA's Recovery and Resilience Department

329-677: A site bordered by Scholes, Maujer, and Leonard Streets and Bushwick Avenue. The Williamsburg Houses were built in 1936–1938 under the auspices of the Housing Division of the Public Works Administration (PWA). Richmond Shreve was the chief architect of the project; the design team of nine other architects was led by the Swiss-American modernist William Lescaze . The construction contract was awarded to Starrett Brothers & Eken. The designs called for

376-686: A split between the NYCHA Chair and CEO roles, with the CEO managing the day-to-day operations and the Chair overseeing the NYCHA Board. The Authority is the largest public housing authority (PHA) in North America. In spite of many problems, it is still considered by experts to be the most successful big-city public housing authority in the country. Whereas most large public housing authorities in

423-400: Is withholding his multiyear funding of $ 550 million until a federally required monitor is appointed to oversee the housing authority. Later that year, the de Blasio administration announced a plan, called NYCHA 2.0, to address the capital needs of the agency which includes converting 62,000 NYCHA apartments into Section 8 and bringing in private management to oversee the backlog of repairs for

470-783: The New York City Transit Police were merged into the New York City Police Department by NYC Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and continues today as the New York City Police Department Housing Bureau . NYCHA is a public-benefit corporation , controlled by the Mayor of New York City , and organized under the State's Public Housing Law . The NYCHA ("NYCHA Board") consists of seven members, of which

517-515: The site plan , and two curving pedestrian pathways cut through the grounds. The buildings have one of three shapes, viewed from overhead: a capital "H," lowercase "h," and a "T" shape. The T-shaped buildings are in the middle of the complex, with both H-shaped buildings surrounding them. The houses are oriented towards the sun at a 15-degree angle. Each building has a light tan brick facade, and building entrances are marked by blue tiles and stainless steel canopies. Commercial storefronts run parallel to

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564-493: The 2010 census, NYCHA's Public Housing represents 8.2% of the city's rental apartments and is home to 4.9% of the city's population. NYCHA residents and Section 8 voucher holders combined occupy 12.4% of the city's rental apartments. In 2004, NYCHA contracted with the Architectural/Engineering firm Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas to perform a needs assessment survey of all 2500+ properties owned by

611-600: The 2013 Baez lawsuit wouldn't happen. In 2019, the administration, under NYCHA 2.0, began considering demolishing and rebuilding the Fulton Houses in Chelsea and the Cooper Park Houses in Williamsburg through partnering with private developers and a 70–30 split of market-rate and affordable housing. Other developers began lobbying the city for air rights from Campos Plaza II, Fulton Houses, and

658-529: The Authority's structures into a state of good repair. In 2011/12, a second needs assessment survey was done by PBQ&D, which identified $ 16.5 billion in needs. This represented an average of $ 93,000 per unit. It is anticipated that an upcoming needs assessment contract will reveal capital needs in excess of $ 25 billion. The needs assessment survey is divided into five broad categories, which are: Architectural, Mechanical, Electrical, Site, and Apartments. Given

705-479: The Elliott-Chelsea Houses and the nearby Fulton Houses in early 2023. In a survey in June 2023, residents of the Elliott-Chelsea Houses and Fulton Houses voted in favor of demolishing the existing towers and constructing a 3,500-unit apartment complex on the same site. At the time, NYCHA officials estimated that the complexes needed about $ 1 billion in repairs and that it would cost about as much to build new complexes on

752-533: The Finco Dye and Print Works Inc. The initial tenancy rents were set by WPA Secretary Ickes in August 1937, four months before the first tenants moved in. The building's commercial rents were also set, though, within six months, they were decreased by 50% to compete with cheaper rents in nearby tenements. The federal government conveyed the housing developments to NYCHA in 1957. A $ 70-million-dollar renovation

799-561: The Indiana University Art Museum. Francis Criss completed a 1938 oil-on-canvas mural called Sixth Avenue El , a realist abstraction of a Sixth Avenue El platform. The subject was timely, given that the elevated line was closed in late 1938 and razed in 1939. However, Criss's mural was never installed and now forms part of the Whitney Museum of American Art collection. According to Time magazine, it

846-594: The Ingersoll Houses. The approach of the administration, under NYCHA 2.0, is a turn back to Bloomberg -era initiatives of market rate infill that he once felt ignored the concerns of NYCHA residents after a failed trial of four buildings with a 50–50 split of market-rate and low-cost housing infill did not provide enough money under Next-Gen NYCHA. Then in July, 2020 NYCHA announced a new plan called A Blueprint for Change which would transfer 110,000 apartments to

893-830: The NYCHA monitor. 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, New York, U.S. This list is divided geographically by the five boroughs of New York City : Manhattan , the Bronx , Brooklyn , Queens , and Staten Island . Vanderveer Estates Apartments nka Flatbush Gardens, Tiffany Towers nka Tivoli Towers, Ebbets Field Apartments and Towers of Bay Ridge and Rutland Rd Houses in Brooklyn , all five includes rent, gas & electric (AC including) in

940-533: The United States (Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, etc.) have demolished their high-rise projects and in most cases replaced them with lower density housing, New York's continue to be fully occupied. Most of its market-rate housing is also in high-rise buildings. NYCHA also administers a citywide Section 8 Leased Housing Program in rental apartments. However, new applications for Section 8 have not been accepted since December 10, 2009. New York also maintains

987-661: The Williamsburg murals were installed at the Brooklyn Museum in 1990, where they remain on long-term loan from NYCHA. Other artists received commissions for the project, but their murals were ultimately not used. Stuart Davis painted a large semi-abstract mural entitled Swing Landscape for the project, but the work was instead sold by the Federal Art Gallery in New York, eventually landing up at

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1034-406: The agency (excluding FHA Homes, which were inspected by in-house NYCHA personnel in about 2007). In 2005, a report was released detailing the conditions of every aspect and building component of each individual property, based on a scale of 1 to 5 (in this case, 1 being the highest or best rating, and 5 being the lowest, or poorest rating). This report identified $ 6.9 billion in needs required to bring

1081-488: The apartments, and selling air rights over NYCHA property to raise money. The conversion of the properties would be under the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) federal program leading to concerns that NYCHA would be privatized. If units were to be brought under RAD, oversight by the monitor and the court would be terminated leading to further concerns that the mold remediation ordered in

1128-479: The auspices of the Housing Division of the Public Works Administration (PWA). The project was originally segregated and allowed only white residents. It was one of the first and, at the time, the most expensive New York City housing project, costing $ 12.5 million. New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was a strong supporter of the project; he even poured the first shovel of concrete when ground broke. The site formerly contained Williamsburg Continuation School and

1175-401: 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. The board includes three members who are residents of public housing, and a board chair who also serves as NYCHA's chief executive officer. On September 15, 2022, Mayor Eric Adams announced a new two person leadership structure for NYCHA with

1222-560: The city's five boroughs. Another 235,000 receive subsidized rental assistance in private homes through the NYCHA-administered Section 8 Leased Housing Program. NYCHA was created in 1934 to help alleviate the housing crisis caused by the Great Depression during Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia's administration and was the first agency in the United States to provide publicly funded housing. The agency used

1269-698: The developments to practice slum-clearance and establish model affordable housing for the city. In 1935, NYCHA completed its first development, the First Houses , located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan . The parcel of land the houses were located on were purchased from Vincent Astor and the city used eminent domain to secure the remaining property. However, the construction of the First Houses used existing apartment buildings to renovate which proved too costly. NYCHA's first two "new from

1316-450: The end of 2021. In February 2018, attorney Jim Walden filed a lawsuit on behalf of 400,000 NYCHA tenants living in squalid conditions. The suit demands that the court appoint an independent monitor to oversee NYCHA because the agency failed to provide tenants with heat and hot water, keep residents safe from lead, involve tenants in policy-making, and hire residents, as required under federal law. In April 2018, under intense pressure from

1363-522: The federal government. Most of the postwar developments had over 1,000 apartment units each, and most were built in the modernist, tower-in-the-park style popular at the time. In the 1950s and 1960s, many New Yorkers, including supporters, became more critical of the agency and in response NYCHA introduced a new look that included variations of height, faster elevators, and larger apartments. In 1958, Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. began to shift construction away from megaprojects to smaller sites which retained

1410-447: The first examples of high rise tower in the park style. The Chelsea Houses were designed by architect Paul L. Wood and construction started in 1961 and completed on May 31, 1964. The Chelsea Houses were aided by the state for $ 8.3 million. In 2012, NYCHA converted a parking lot in the development into a 168 unit building for low-to-middle-income households. Development firms Related Companies and Essence Development proposed rebuilding

1457-776: The founder of the Hudson Guild , has four 11- and 12-story buildings which accommodate over 1400 residents in 589 apartments. The Chelsea Houses has over 1,000 residents in 426 apartments within two 21-story buildings. Prior to development, the Elliott Houses were criticized by the United States Housing Authority who cited the land value being higher than other housing projects. NYCHA broke ground in December 1945 and were completed on July 15, 1947. Designed by William Lescaze , they were one of

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1504-439: The ground up" developments were Harlem River in 1937 and Williamsburg in 1938. Both are noted for their art-deco style of architecture, which are unique in public housing. These developments were segregated based on race with Harlem River being black-only and Williamsburg white-only. The Authority boomed in partnership with Robert Moses after World War II as a part of Moses' plan to clear old tenements and remake New York as

1551-474: The housing developments in Parkchester , Stuyvesant Town , and Peter Cooper Village . The development is approximately 25 acres between Maujer, Scholes, Leonard Streets, and Bushwick Avenue. Its 20 four-story residential buildings occupy twelve city blocks. The buildings are positioned to allow a sequence of courtyards, playgrounds, and ball courts between them; a school and community building are part of

1598-573: The housing project designs called for the inclusion of modern art. Working with Lescaze, the NYC Federal Arts Project mural division, headed by abstract artist Burgoyne Diller , handled the commissions. Five abstract murals by Ilya Bolotowsky , Balcomb Greene , Paul Kelpe , and Albert Swinden were installed in basement meeting rooms in the late 1930s. These murals were rediscovered in the late 1980s after having been painted over for some time. After careful removal and restoration,

1645-824: The inclusion of modern art commissioned through the Federal Arts Project . The Williamsburg Houses were designated a New York City Landmark in 2003. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. Since December 28th, 2021, NYCHA converted the housing development into Section 8 RAD PACT management in Public–private partnership leases with private real estate developers and companies named RDC Development and Wavecrest Management Group LLC as well as adding social service provider programs named St. Nicks Alliance Corp and Grand Street Settlement . The project's chief architect

1692-460: The large number of apartment units within NYCHA, the report's findings on apartments are based upon an inspection of 5% of NYCHA's total inventory. In mid-2007, NYCHA faced a $ 225 million budget shortfall. In late 2015, NYCHA announced the formation of the Fund for Public Housing, a nonprofit organization that will seek to raise $ 200 million over three years to supplement NYCHA's efforts and improve

1739-417: The lawsuit by admitting to the allegations, agreeing to spend an additional $ 1 billion over the next four years, and by agreeing to oversight by a federal monitor. In 2019, the federal government reached an agreement with the city to appoint a federal monitor and $ 2.2 billion spent by the city over the next decade on repair to avoid a federal takeover. In February 2019, federal officials chose Bart Schwartz as

1786-579: The lawsuit, chairwoman Shola Olatoye resigned. On June 11, 2018, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman filed a lawsuit accusing NYCHA of violating health and safety regulations, exposing children to lead paint, and training its workers to deceive inspectors under the oversight of chairwoman Shola Olatoye from 2012 to 2016. According to federal prosecutors, deceptions NYCHA workers used included shutting off buildings' water supplies during inspections to hide leaks and building false walls out of plywood to hide dilapidated rooms from inspectors. That day, NYCHA settled

1833-481: The lease, so it's not projects or developments owned by NYCHA , even though all five take Section 8 . Williamsburg Houses The Williamsburg Houses , originally called the Ten Eyck Houses (pronounced TEN - IKE ), is a public housing complex built and operated by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn . It consists of 20 buildings on

1880-541: The lives of NYC public housing residents. The Fund received its first donation of $ 100,000 from the Deutsche Bank in December 2015. Also in 2015 Mayor Bill de Blasio released a plan called Next Gen NYCHA to address funding and maintenance concerns by "revamping management practices and generate revenue by building mixed-income and affordable housing on what the city deemed underused NYCHA land, and by using new federal programs to shift NYCHA apartments over to Section 8,

1927-577: The site. PAU, COOKFOX Architects , and ILA were hired in early 2024 to design the Fulton Elliott-Chelsea Plan, which would involve converting 2,056 NYCHA apartments into mixed-income units. Under the plan, six new towers would be built on the two sites before the existing buildings were demolished. NYCHA's board approved the redevelopment of the Fulton Houses and Elliot-Chelsea Houses in November 2024. This article about

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1974-591: The street grid and had under 1,000 units. In 1964, NYCHA ended a policy that held apartments for white tenants in an attempt to integrate the developments. Tenants organized a rent strike in opposition to the policy and the State Commission of Human Rights questioned if the policy was in accordance to the state's laws on discrimination. In 1995, the New York City Housing Authority Police Department and

2021-646: The streets and accompany apartment buildings throughout many locations. Although the materials are not historically accurate, the new elevations are similar to the originals. Between Maujer Street and Ten Eyck Walk, on either side of Graham Avenue, are the largest storefronts. Graham Avenue (near Scholes Street), Leonard Street (near Maujer Street), and Bushwick Avenue (between Maujer and Stagg Walk) all have smaller retail spaces. Graham Avenue near Scholes Street, Leonard Street near Maujer Street, and Bushwick Avenue between Maujer and Stagg Walk all have smaller retail spaces. Because of its innovative International Style design,

2068-474: Was Richmond Shreve , and the design team of nine other architects was led by the Swiss-American modernist William Lescaze , whose PSFS Building of 1928–1932 was one of the first major International Style buildings in the United States. The construction contract was awarded to Starrett Brothers & Eken, which had worked closely with Shreve on the Empire State Building and later built

2115-502: Was created bringing about initial agreements in over $ 3 billion in funding for over 33 developments by March 2015. In August 2015, the first construction began on Lower East Side V. In December 2015, NYCHA received $ 3 billion in disaster recovery funding and by December 2016, $ 201 million of construction was underway. By December 2017, $ 1.85 billion in contracts were awarded, and construction was underway at 27 developments. Construction at all Sandy-impacted sites are expected to be completed by

2162-536: Was divided equally between those born in the United States, those born in Italy, and others. Most were semi-skilled manufacturing workers, such as clerks, truck drivers, or construction workers. As the foundations were nearing completion, the PWA solicited construction bids. In October 1936, Starrett Brothers & Eken won a $ 7.5 million contract for the first 18 buildings. The Williamsburg Houses were built in 1936–1938 under

2209-641: Was rejected because the color scheme did not match the prescribed colors for the project. Other artists engaged for the mural commissions were Jan Matulka , Byron Browne , George McNeil , Willem de Kooning , Harry Bowden , and Eugene Morley. Abstract sculptures, including work by Martin Craig and Jose de Rivera , were also part of the initial plans. The uncompleted murals and sculptures status has not been fully established. In 1935, 568 buildings were demolished on 349 lots to make space for construction, and approximately 5,400 residents were relocated. The population

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