See also: List of New York City Housing Authority properties.
| Agency Name: | New York City Housing Authority |
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| Jurisdiction: | New York City |
| Headquarters: | 250 Broadway, New York City, New York |
| Employees: | 13,000 |
| Chief1 Name: | Lisa Bova-Hiatt |
| Chief1 Position: | CEO |
| Chief2 Name: | Jamie Rubin |
| Chief2 Position: | Chair |
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| Keydocument1: | Public Housing Law |
The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is a public development corporation which provides public housing in New York City, and is the largest public housing authority in North America. Created in 1934 as the first agency of its kind in the United States, it aims to provide decent, affordable housing for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers throughout the five boroughs of New York City.[1] [2] NYCHA also administers a citywide Section 8 Leased Housing Program in rental apartments. NYCHA developments include single and double family houses, apartment units, singular floors, and shared small building units, and commonly have large income disparities with their respective surrounding neighborhood or community. These developments, particularly those including large-scale apartment buildings, are often referred to in popular culture as "projects."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.[3] More than 360,000 New Yorkers reside in NYCHA's 335 public housing developments across the city's five boroughs.[4] 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.[5] The agency used 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.[6]
NYCHA's first two "new from 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 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 the federal government.[7] 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 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.[8]
In 1995, the New York City Housing Authority Police Department and 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.[9] [10] 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.[11] The board includes three members who are residents of public housing, and a board chair who also serves as NYCHA's chief executive officer.[12]
On September 15, 2022, Mayor Eric Adams announced a new two person leadership structure for NYCHA with 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 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.[13]
New York also maintains 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.[14]
NYCHA has approximately 13,000 employees serving about 173,946 families and approximately 392,259 authorized residents. Based on 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.[15]
| No. | Chairperson | Term | Mayor | Previous Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Langdon Post | February 17, 1934 – December 1, 1937 | Fiorello H. La Guardia | U.S. Assistant Federal Relief Administrator |
| 2. | Alfred Rheinstein | December 17, 1937 – October 9, 1939 | Fiorello H. La Guardia | Chairman & CEO, Rheinstein Construction Company |
| 3. | Gerard Swope | December 11, 1939 – January 26, 1942 | Fiorello H. La Guardia | President, General Electric Company |
| 4. | Edmond Borgia Butler | May 2, 1942 – July 1, 1947 | Fiorello H. La Guardia | Professor, Fordham University Law School |
| 5. | Thomas Francis Farrell | July 1, 1947 – September 15, 1950 | William O'Dwyer | Chief of Field Operations, The Manhattan Project |
| 6. | Philip J. Cruise | September 15, 1950 – April 3, 1958 | Vincent R. Impellitteri (acting mayor) | Assistant Chairman, New York City Housing Authority |
| 7. | William Reid | April 1958 – December 31, 1965 | Robert F. Wagner Jr. | Chairman, Hudson and Manhattan Railroad |
| 8. | Missing Name | January 1966 – | ||
| 9. | Gerald J. Carey | 1966 | John V. Lindsay | General manager, New York City Housing Authority |
| 10. | Walter Edward Washington | 1966 – 1967 | John V. Lindsay | Exec. Dir. National Capital Housing Authority, DC |
| 11. | Albert Walsh | October 31, 1967 – January 7, 1970 | John V. Lindsay | Deputy Commissioner, NYS Division Housing & Urban Renewal |
| 12. | Simeon Golar | January 16, 1970 – May 31, 1973 | John V. Lindsay | Chairman, NYC Commission on Human Rights |
| 13. | Joseph J. Christian | 1973 – December 31, 1985 | John V. Lindsay, Abraham D. Beame, Edward I. Koch | Commissioner of Development, NYC Housing and Development Administration |
| 14. | Emanuel P. Popolizio | January 4, 1986 – November 1990 | Edward I. Koch | Chairman, NYC Conciliation and Appeals Board |
| 15. | Laura D. Blackburne | November 1990 – February 22, 1992 | David N. Dinkins | President & CEO, Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, NYC |
| 16. | Sally B. Hernandez-Pinero | February 22, 1992 – January 1994 | David N. Dinkins | NYC Deputy Mayor for Finance and Economic Development |
| 17. | Ruben Franco | January 31, 1994 – January 7, 1999 | Rudy Giuliani | Pres. and General Counsel, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund |
| 18. | John G. Martinez | April 19, 1999 – April 1, 2001 | Rudy Giuliani | First Vice-president, Paine Webber Inc. |
| 19. | Tino Hernandez | April 1, 2001 – December 12, 2008 | Rudy Giuliani, Michael R. Bloomberg | Commissioner, New York City Department of Juvenile Justice |
| 20. | Ricardo Elias Morales | December 15, 2008 – May 13, 2009 | Michael R. Bloomberg | NYCHA General Counsel & Chief Ethics Officer |
| 21. | John B. Rhea | June 1, 2009 – December 30, 2013 | Michael R. Bloomberg | Managing Director & Co-Head of Global Consumer/Retail Group, Barclays Capital |
| 22. | Shola Olatoye | February 8, 2014 – April 30, 2018 | Bill de Blasio | Vice Pres. & NY Market Leader, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. |
| Derrick Cephas (Acting Chair*) | May 4, 2018 – May 31, 2018[16] | Bill de Blasio | Vice Chair of NYCHA Board of Directors | |
| Stanley Brezenoff (Interim Chair & CEO*) | June 1, 2018 – February 15, 2019 | Bill de Blasio | Interim CEO, NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation | |
| Kathryn Garcia (Interim Chair & CEO*) | February 5, 2019 – July, 2019 | Bill de Blasio | Commissioner, NYC Department of Sanitation (continuing as) | |
| 23. | Gregory Russ | Appointed June 18, 2019, effective August 12, 2019 – September 19, 2022 | Bill de Blasio, Eric Adams | Executive director & CEO, Minneapolis Public Housing Authority |
| Lisa Bova-Hiatt (Interim CEO*) | September 19, 2022 – July 6, 2023 | Eric Adams | NYCHA Executive Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel | |
| 24. | Lisa Bova-Hiatt (CEO) Jamie Rubin (Board Chair) | July 6, 2023 – | Eric Adams | NYCHA Interim CEO (Lisa Bova-Hiatt), Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Aligned Climate Capital (Jamie Rubin) |
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 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 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.[17] The needs assessment survey is divided into five broad categories, which are: Architectural, Mechanical, Electrical, Site, and Apartments. Given 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.[18]
In late 2015, NYCHA announced the formation of the Fund for Public Housing,[19] a nonprofit organization that will seek to raise $200 million over three years to supplement NYCHA's efforts and improve the lives of NYC public housing residents. The Fund received its first donation of $100,000 from the Deutsche Bank in December 2015.[20] 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, a more stable source of federal funding".[21] [22]
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 is withholding his multiyear funding of $550 million until a federally required monitor is appointed to oversee the housing authority.[23] 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 the apartments, and selling air rights over NYCHA property to raise money.[24] [25] [22] The conversion of the properties would be under the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) federal program leading to concerns that NYCHA would be privatized.[26] [27] 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 the 2013 Baez lawsuit wouldn't happen.[28]
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.[29] [30] Other developers began lobbying the city for air rights from Campos Plaza II, Fulton Houses, and the Ingersoll Houses.[31]
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.[32] [33] Then in July, 2020 NYCHA announced a new plan called A Blueprint for Change which would transfer 110,000 apartments to a newly created public entity - a Public Housing Preservation Trust.[34] 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.[35] [36]
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.[37]
In February 2014, NYCHA's Recovery and Resilience Department 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 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.[38] In April 2018, under intense pressure from the lawsuit, chairwoman Shola Olatoye resigned.[39]
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.[40] [41] 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 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.[42] 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.[43] In February 2019, federal officials chose Bart Schwartz as the NYCHA monitor.[44]
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.
| NYCHA Property | Neighborhood/Subsection | No.# of Buildings | No.# of Stories | No.# of Apartments | Date of Completion | Date of Demolition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfred E. Smith Houses | Lower East Side | 12 | 17 | 1,931 | |||
| Audubon Houses | Washington Heights | 1 | 20 | 167 | |||
| Amsterdam Addition | Upper West Side | 1 | 27 | 175 | |||
| Amsterdam Houses | Upper West Side | 13 | 6 and 13 | 1,080 | |||
| Baruch Addition | Lower East Side | 1 | 23 | 197 | Senior-Only Housing | ||
| Baruch Houses | Lower East Side | 17 | 8 and 14 | 2,193 | |||
| Bethune Gardens | Washington Heights | 1 | 22 | 210 | |||
| Bracetti Plaza | East Village | 1 | 7 | 108 | |||
| Campos Plaza | East Village | 2 | 10 and 20 | 270 | |||
| Carver Houses | East Harlem | 13 | 6 and 15 | 1,246 | |||
| Chelsea Houses | Chelsea | 2 | 21 | 426 | Combined with Elliott Houses | ||
| Chelsea Addition | Chelsea | 1 | 14 | 96 | Senior-Only Housing; Combined with Elliot Houses | ||
| Clinton Houses | East Harlem | 6 | 9 and 18 | 749 | |||
| Corsi Houses | East Harlem | 1 | 16 | 171 | Senior-Only Housing | ||
| De Hostos Apartments | Upper West Side | 1 | 22 | 219 | |||
| Drew Hamilton Houses | Harlem | 5 | 21 | 1,207 | |||
| Dyckman Houses | Inwood | 7 | 14 and 15 | 1,167 | |||
| East River Houses | East Harlem | 10 | 6, 10 and 11 | 1,158 | |||
| Elliott Houses | Chelsea | 4 | 11 and 12 | 608 | |||
| Fabria Houses | East Village | 3 | 5 | 40 | |||
| First Houses | East Village | 8 | 4 and 5 | 126 | Oldest public housing development out of all of the boroughs in the city. | ||
| Fort Washington Avenue Rehab | Washington Heights | 1 | 7 | 226 | Senior-Only Housing | ||
| Frederick Douglass Addition | Upper West Side | 1 | 16 | 135 | |||
| Frederick Douglass Houses | Upper West Side | 17 | 5, 9, 12, 17, 18 and 20 | 2,054 | |||
| Frederick E. Samuel Apartments | Harlem | 40 | 5, 6 and 7 | 659 | |||
| Fulton Houses | Chelsea | 11 | 6 and 25 | 945 | |||
| Gompers Houses | Lower East Side | 2 | 20 | 474 | |||
| Grampion Houses | Harlem | 1 | 7 | 35 | |||
| Grant Houses | Manhattanville | 9 | 13 and 21 | 1,940 | |||
| Harborview Terrace | Clinton | 2 | 14 and 15 | 377 | |||
| Harlem River Houses | Harlem | 7 | 4 and 5 | 571 | |||
| Hernandez Houses | Lower East Side | 1 | 17 | 149 | |||
| Holmes Towers | Yorkville | 2 | 25 | 537 | |||
| Isaacs Houses | Yorkville | 3 | 24 | 635 | |||
| Jackie Robinson Houses | East Harlem | 1 | 8 | 189 | |||
| Jefferson Houses | East Harlem | 18 | 7, 13 and 14 | 1,487 | |||
| Johnson Houses | East Harlem | 10 | 14 | 1,308 | |||
| King Towers | Harlem | 10 | 13 and 14 | 1,373 | |||
| LaGuardia Addition | Lower East Side | 1 | 16 | 150 | Senior-Only Housing | ||
| LaGuardia Houses | Lower East Side | 9 | 16 | 1,093 | |||
| Lehman Village | East Harlem | 4 | 20 | 619 | |||
| Lexington Houses | Harlem | 4 | 14 | 448 | |||
| Lincoln Houses | Harlem | 14 | 6 and 14 | 1,282 | |||
| Lower East Side II | Lower East Side | 4 | 3 | 188 | |||
| Lower East Side III | Lower East Side | 2 | 4 | 56 | |||
| Lower East Side Rehab | Lower East Side | 2 | 6 | 55 | |||
| Lower East Side I Infill | Lower East Side | 5 | 4 and 9 | 189 | |||
| Manhattanville Houses | Manhattanville | 6 | 19, 20 and 21 | 1,272 | |||
| Marshall Plaza | Washington Heights | 1 | 20 | 180 | |||
| Meltzer Tower | East Village | 1 | 20 | 230 | |||
| Metro North Plaza | East Harlem | 3 | 7, 8 and 11 | 269 | |||
| Metro North Rehab | East Harlem | 17 | 6 | 321 | |||
| Milbank-Frawley | East Harlem | 2 | 5 and 6 | 82 | |||
| Polo Grounds Towers | Harlem | 4 | 30 | 1,614 | |||
| Rangel Houses | Harlem | 8 | 14 | 984 | |||
| Riis Houses | East Village | 13 | 6, 13 and 14 | 1,187 | |||
| Riis II | East Village | 6 | 6, 13 and 14 | 577 | |||
| Robbins Plaza | Lenox Hill | 1 | 20 | 150 | Senior-Only Housing | ||
| Robert F. Wagner Houses | East Harlem | 22 | 7 and 16 | 2,154 | |||
| Rutgers Houses | Lower East Side | 5 | 20 | 721 | |||
| St. Nicholas Houses | Harlem | 13 | 14 | 1,523 | |||
| Straus Houses | Rose Hill | 2 | 19 and 20 | 267 | |||
| Taft Houses | East Harlem | 9 | 19 | 1,464 | |||
| Two Bridges URA (SITE 7) | Two Bridges | 1 | 26 | 250 | |||
| Vladeck Houses I | Lower East Side | 20 | 6 | 250 | |||
| Vladeck Houses II | Lower East Side | 4 | 6 | 238 | |||
| Wald Houses | Lower East Side | 16 | 10, 11, 13 and 14 | 1,857 | |||
| Washington Houses | East Harlem | 14 | 12 and 14 | 1,510 | |||
| Wilson Houses | East Harlem | 3 | 20 | 398 | |||
| Wise Houses | Upper West Side | 2 | 19 | 399 | |||
| WSUR Brownstones | Upper West Side | 36 | 3, 4, and 6 | 236 | |||
| NYCHA Property | Neighborhood/Subsection | No.# of Buildings | No.# of Stories | No.# of Apartments | Date of Completion | Date of Demolition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1010 East 178th Street | West Farms | 1 | 21 | 218 | |||
| 1162-1176 Washington Avenue | Morrisania | 1 | 6 | 64 | |||
| 1471 Watson Avenue | Soundview | 1 | 6 | 96 | |||
| Adams Houses | Melrose | 7 | 15 and 21 | 925 | |||
| Bailey Avenue-West 193rd Street | University Heights | 1 | 19 | 232 | |||
| Baychester Houses | Edenwald | 11 | 6 | 441 | |||
| Dr. Ramon E. Betances I | Mott Haven | 13 | 3, 4, 11 and 19 | 308 | |||
| Dr. Ramon E. Betances II, 13 | Mott Haven | 1 | 6 | 51 | |||
| Dr. Ramon E. Betances II, 18 | Mott Haven | 2 | 4 and 6 | 51 | |||
| Dr. Ramon E. Betances II, 9A | Mott Haven | 1 | 4 | 46 | |||
| Dr. Ramon E. Betances III, 13 | Mott Haven | 2 | 5 | 22 | |||
| Dr. Ramon E. Betances III, 18 | Mott Haven | 1 | 5 | 19 | |||
| Dr. Ramon E. Betances III, 9A | Mott Haven | 2 | 6 | 26 | |||
| Dr. Ramon E. Betances IV | Mott Haven | 8 | 3, 4 and 5 | 282 | |||
| Dr. Ramon E. Betances V | Mott Haven | 9 | 5 and 6 | 152 | |||
| Dr. Ramon E. Betances VI | Mott Haven | 3 | 5 and 6 | 155 | |||
| Baychester Houses | Edenwald | 11 | 6 | 441 | |||
| Boston Road Plaza Houses | Bronxdale | 1 | 20 | 230 | |||
| Boston Secor Houses | Eastchester | 4 | 13, 14, 17 and 18 | 538 | |||
| Boynton Avenue Rehabs | Soundview | 3 | 4 | 20 | |||
| Bronx River Addition | Soundview | 2 | 6 and 12 | 225 | |||
| Bronx River Houses | Soundview | 9 | 14 | 1,260 | |||
| Bronxchester Houses | Melrose | 1 | 18 | 208 | |||
| Bryant Avenue-East 174th Street | Crotona Park East | 1 | 6 | 111 | |||
| Butler Houses | Morrisania | 6 | 21 | 1,476 | |||
| Castle Hill Houses | Castle Hill | 14 | 12 and 20 | 2,025 | |||
| Claremont Parkway-Franklin Avenue Area | Morrisania | 3 | 3 and 7 | 1,888 | |||
| Claremont Rehab (Group 2) | Concourse | 6 | 5 and 6 | 107 | |||
| Claremont Rehab (Group 3) | Concourse | 5 | 5 | 112 | |||
| Claremont Rehab (Group 4) | Concourse | 9 | 4 and 5 | 150 | |||
| Claremont Rehab (Group 5) | Concourse | 3 | 5 | 132 | |||
| Clason Point Gardens | Soundview | 45 | 2 | 433 | Oldest public housing development in the borough. | ||
| College Avenue-East 165th Street | Concourse | 1 | 6 | 95 | |||
| Davidson Houses | Morrisania | 1 | 8 | 177 | |||
| Eagle Avenue-East 165th Street | Morrisania | 1 | 6 | 66 | |||
| East 152nd Street-Courtlandt Avenue | Melrose | 2 | 11 and 14 | ||||
| East 165th Street-Bryant Avenue | Longwood | 5 | 3 | 111 | |||
| East 173rd Street-Vyse Avenue | East Morrisania | 7 | 3 | ||||
| East 180th Street-Monterey Avenue | East Tremont | 1 | 10 | 239 | |||
| Edenwald Houses | Edenwald | 40 | 3 and 14 | 2,034 | Largest public housing development in the borough. | ||
| Forest Houses | Morrisania | 15 | 9, 10 and 14 | 1,349 | |||
| Fort Independence Street-Heath Avenue | Kingsbridge Heights | 1 | 21 | 344 | |||
| Franklin Avenue I (Conventional) | Morrisania | 3 | 5 | ||||
| Franklin Avenue I M.H.O.P. (Multi Family Homeownership Program) | Morrisania | 2 | 5 | ||||
| Franklin Avenue II (Conventional) | Morrisania | 3 | 5 | ||||
| Franklin Avenue III (Conventional) | Morrisania | 1 | 5 | ||||
| Franklin Avenue III M.H.O.P. (Multi Family Homeownership Program) | Morrisania | 3 | 5 | ||||
| Glebe Avenue-Westchester Avenue | Westchester Square | 1 | 6 | 132 | |||
| Gun Hill Houses | Williamsbridge | 6 | 13, 14 and 15 | 733 | |||
| Harrison Avenue Rehab (Group A) | Morris Heights | 1 | 5 | ||||
| Harrison Avenue Rehab (Group B) | Morris Heights | 4 | 4 and 5 | ||||
| Highbridge Gardens | Highbridge | 6 | 13 and 14 | 699 | |||
| Highbridge Rehabs (West 166th Street-Anderson Avenue) | Highbridge | ||||||
| Highbridge Rehabs (Nelson Avenue) | Highbridge | ||||||
| Hoe Avenue-East 173rd Street | East Morrisania | 1 | 6 | ||||
| Jackson Houses | Melrose | 7 | 16 | 867 | |||
| Jennings Street M.H.O.P. (Multi Family Homeownership Program) | Morrisania | 3 | 5 | ||||
| Longfellow Avenue Rehab | Longwood | 2 | 5 | 75 | |||
| Macombs Road | Morris Heights | ||||||
| Marble Hill Houses | Marble Hill | 11 | 14 and 15 | 1,682 | |||
| McKinley Houses | Morrisania | 5 | 16 | 1,633 | |||
| Melrose Houses | Melrose | 8 | 14 | 1,020 | |||
| Middleton Plaza | Pelham Bay | 1 | 15 | 178 | |||
| Mill Brook Houses | Mott Haven | 9 | 16 and 17 | 1,255 | |||
| Mill Brook Extension | Mott Haven | 1 | 16 | 125 | |||
| Mitchell Houses | Mott Haven | 10 | 17, 19 and 20 | 1,729 | |||
| Monroe Houses | Soundview | 12 | 8, 14 and 15 | 1,102 | |||
| Moore Houses | Mott Haven | 2 | 20 | 463 | |||
| Morris Heights Rehab | Morris Heights | ||||||
| Morris I | Morrisania | 10 | 16, 17 and 20 | 1,084 | |||
| Morris II | Morrisania | 7 | 16, 17 and 20 | 801 | |||
| Morrisania Air Rights | Melrose | 3 | 19, 23 and 29 | 843 | |||
| Morrisania Houses | Morrisania | 2 | 16 And 17 | 205 | |||
| Mott Haven Houses | Mott Haven | 8 | 20 and 22 | 993 | |||
| Murphy Houses | East Morrisania | 2 | 20 | 281 | |||
| Parkside Houses | Allerton | 14 | 6, 7, 14 and 15 | 879 | |||
| Patterson Houses | Mott Haven | 15 | 6 and 13 | 1,788 | |||
| Pelham Parkway Houses | Pelham Parkway | 23 | 6 | 1,266 | |||
| Prospect Avenue M.H.O.P. (Multi Family Homeownership Program) | Morrisania | 1 | 5 | ||||
| PSS Grandparent Family Apartments | Morrisania | 1 | 6 | ||||
| Randall-Balcom Houses | Throgs Neck | 3 | 6 | 230 | |||
| Sack Wern Houses | Soundview | 7 | 6 | 410 | |||
| Saint Mary's Park Houses | Melrose | 6 | 21 and 22 | 1,007 | |||
| Sedgwick Houses | Morris Heights | 7 | 14 and 15 | 784 | |||
| Sotomayor Houses | Soundview | 28 | 7 | 1,496 | Originally known as Bronxdale Houses. | ||
| Soundview Houses | Soundview | 13 | 7 | 1,255 | |||
| South Bronx Area (Site 402) | Melrose | 4 | 3 | ||||
| Southern Boulevard M.H.O.P. (Multi Family Homeownership Program) | Mott Haven | ||||||
| Stebbins Avenue-Hewitt Place | Longwood | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Teller Avenue-East 166th Street | Concourse | 1 | 6 | 91 | |||
| Throggs Neck Addition | Throgs Neck | 4 | 8 and 11 | 287 | |||
| Throggs Neck Houses | Throgs Neck | 29 | 3 and 7 | 1,185 | |||
| Twin Park East (Site 9) Houses | East Tremont | 1 | 14 | 219 | |||
| Twin Park West (Site 1 and 2) Houses | Tremont | 1 | 16 | 312 | |||
| Union Avenue-East 163rd Street | Morrisania | 1 | 9 | 200 | |||
| Union Avenue-East 166th Street | Morrisania | 6 | 3 | 120 | |||
| University Avenue Rehab | Morris Heights | 4 | 6 | 230 | |||
| Webster Houses | Morrisania | 5 | 21 | 605 | |||
| West Farms Square Rehab | East Morrisania | 4 | 6 | ||||
| West Farms Square (Conventional) | East Morrisania | 1 | 5 | ||||
| West Farms Square M.H.O.P. (Multi Family Homeownership Program) | East Morrisania | 2 | 5 and 6 | ||||
| West Tremont Avenue-Sedgwick Avenue Area | Morris Heights | 1 | 11 | 148 | |||
| West Tremont Rehab (Group 1) | Morris Heights | 2 | 5 and 6 | 97 | |||
| West Tremont Rehab (Group 2) | Morris Heights | 2 | 6 | 99 | |||
| West Tremont Rehab (Group 3) | Morris Heights | 3 | 5 | 88 | |||
Vanderveer Estates Apartments nka Flatbush Gardens,[45] Tiffany Towers nka Tivoli Towers,[46] Ebbets Field Apartments[47] and Towers of Bay Ridge[48] and Rutland Rd Houses in Brooklyn, all five includes rent, gas & electric (AC including) in the lease, so it's not projects or developments owned by NYCHA, even though all five take Section 8.
| NYCHA Property | Neighborhood/Subsection | No.# of Buildings | No.# of Stories | No.# of Apartments | Date of Completion | Date of Demolition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 104-14 Tapscott Street | Brownsville | 1 | 4 | 30 | |||
| 303 Vernon Avenue | Bedford-Stuyvesant | 1 | 24 | 234 | |||
| 572 Warren Street | Boerum Hill | 1 | 6 | ||||
| Albany Houses I | Crown Heights | 6 | 14 | 824 | |||
| Albany Houses II | Crown Heights | 3 | 13 and 14 | 396 | |||
| Armstrong Houses I | Bedford-Stuyvesant | 11 | 4 and 6 | 369 | |||
| Armstrong Houses II | Bedford-Stuyvesant | 5 | 5 | 248 | |||
| Atlantic Terminal Site 4B | Fort Greene | 1 | 31 | 300 | The tallest residential property owned by NYCHA, reaching 31 stories. | ||
| Bay View Houses | Canarsie | 23 | 8 | 1,610 | |||
| Belmont-Sutter Area | East New York | 3 | 3 | 72 | |||
| Bernard Haber Houses | Coney Island | 3 | 14 | 380 | |||
| Berry Street-South 9th Street | Williamsburg | 4 | 3 and 6 | 148 | |||
| Borinquen Plaza I | Williamsburg | 8 | 7 | 509 | |||
| Borinquen Plaza II | Williamsburg | 7 | 7 | 425 | |||
| Boulevard Houses | East New York | 18 | 6 and 14 | 1,436 | Tallest six 14 story multi residential property from 1951-1960. | ||
| Breukelen Houses | Canarsie | 30 | 3 and 7 | 1,595 | |||
| Breevort Houses | Bedford-Stuyvesant | 13 | 7 | 894 | [49] | ||
| Brown Houses | Ocean Hill | 2 | 6 | 200 | |||
| Brownsville Houses | Brownsville | 27 | 6 | 1,319 | |||
| Bushwick-Hylan Houses | Williamsburg | 8 | 13 and 20 | 1,221 | |||
| Bushwick II & Bushwick CDA | Bushwick | 5 | 3 | 276 | |||
| Carey Gardens | Coney Island | 3 | 15 and 17 | 683 | |||
| Crown Heights Houses | Crown Heights | 8 | 4 | ||||
| Coney Island Houses | Coney Island | 5 | 14 | 535 | |||
| Cooper Park Houses | East Williamsburg | 11 | 7 | 699 | |||
| Cypress Hills Houses | East New York | 15 | 7 | 1,442 | |||
| East New York City Line Houses | East New York | 33 | 3 | 63 | |||
| Farragut Houses | Downtown Brooklyn | 10 | 13 and 14 | 1,390 | |||
| Fenimore Houses | East Flatbush | 18 | 2 | 36 | |||
| Fiorentino Houses | East New York | 8 | 4 | 160 | |||
| Glenmore Plaza | Brownsville | 4 | 10, 18, and 24 | 438 | |||
| Glenwood Houses | Flatlands | 20 | 6 | 1,187 | |||
| Gowanus Houses | Gowanus | 14 | 4, 6, 9 and 13 | 1,134 | |||
| Gravesend Houses | Coney Island | 15 | 7 | 634 | |||
| Hope Gardens | Bushwick | 4 | 7 and 14 | 324 | Hosts Left Hook NYC in its community center | ||
| Howard Houses | Brownsville | 10 | 7 and 13 | 814 | |||
| Howard Av. Houses | Crown Heights | 8 | 3 | ||||
| Howard Av.-Park Place | Crown Heights | 8 | 3 | 155 | |||
| Independence Towers | Williamsburg | 6 | 21 | 744 | |||
| Ingersoll Houses | Fort Greene | 20 | 6 and 11 | 1,802 | |||
| Johnathan Williams Plaza | Williamsburg | 5 | 14 and 21 | 577 | |||
| Kingsborough Houses-Kingsborough Extension | Crown Heights | 16 | 6 | 1,148 | |||
| Lafayette Gardens | Clinton Hill | 7 | 13, 15 and 20 | 880 | |||
| Langston Hughes Apartments | Brownsville | 3 | 22 | 508 | |||
| Lenox Road-Rockaway Parkway | Brownsville | 3 | 4 | 74 | |||
| Linden Houses | East New York | 19 | 8 and 14 | 1,586 | |||
| Long Island Baptist Houses | East New York | 4 | 6 | 233 | |||
| Louis Heaton Pink Houses | East New York | 22 | 8 | 1,500 | |||
| Marcus Garvey Houses | Brownsville | 3 | 6 and 14 | 321 | |||
| Marcy Houses | Bedford-Stuyvesant | 27 | 6 | 1,705 | |||
| Marcy-Greene Avs. Houses | Bedford-Stuyvesant | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Marlboro Houses | Gravesend | 28 | 7 and 16 | 1,765 | |||
| Nostrand Houses | Marine park | 16 | 6 | 1,148 | |||
| O'Dwyer Gardens Houses | Coney Island | 6 | 15 and 16 | 573 | |||
| Ocean Hill Apartments | Ocean Hill | 3 | 14 | 236 | |||
| Ocean Hill-Brownsville | Ocean Hill-Brownsville | 5 | 4 | ||||
| Palmetto Gardens | Bushwick | 1 | 6 | 115 | |||
| Penn. Av. Rehab. | East New York | ||||||
| Penn.-Wortman Avs. Houses | East New York | 3 | 8 and 16 | 336 | |||
| Park Rock Rehab. | Crown Heights | 9 | 4 | 134 | |||
| Prospect Plaza | Ocean Hill | 4 | 12 and 15 | 368 | Summer of 2014 | First NYCHA development to be demolished | |
| Ralph Av. Rehab | Brownsville | 5 | 4 | 118 | |||
| Red Hook East Houses | Red Hook | 27 | 2 and 6 | 2,528 | |||
| Red Hook West Houses | Red Hook | 3 | 3 and 14 | 345 | the location of the 1991 film, Straight Out of Brooklyn | ||
| Roosevelt Houses | Bedford-Stuyvesant | 6 | 14, 15 and 16 | 762 | |||
| Rutland Towers | East Flatbush | 1 | 6 | 61 | |||
| Saratoga Square | Bedford-Stuyvesant | 2 | 12 and 13 | 251 | |||
| Seth Low Houses | Brownsville | 4 | 17 and 18 | 536 | |||
| Sheepshead Bay Houses | Sheepshead Bay | 18 | 6 | 1,056 | |||
| Sterling Pl. Rehabs | Crown Heights | 5 | 4 | 83 | |||
| Sumner Houses | Bedford-Stuyvesant | 13 | 7 and 12 | 1,098 | |||
| Stuyvesant Gardens I | Bedford-Stuyvesant | 5 | 4 | 330 | |||
| Stuyvesant Gardens II | Bedford-Stuyvesant | 1 | 7 | 150 | |||
| Surfside Gardens | Coney Island | 5 | 14 and 15 | 597 | |||
| Tapscott St. Rehab | Brownsville | 8 | 4 | 155 | |||
| Tilden Houses | Brownsville | 8 | 16 | 998 | |||
| Tompkins Houses | Bedford-Stuyvesant | 8 | 8 and 16 | 1,048 | |||
| Taylor/Wythe Houses | Williamsburg | 5 | 8, 11, 12 and 13 | 525 | |||
| Unity Plaza | East New York | 5 | 6 | 462 | |||
| Van Dyke Houses | Brownsville | 22 | 3 and 14 | 1,602 | the location of the 2010 film, Brooklyn's Finest | ||
| Vandalia Av. Houses | East New York | 2 | 10 | 289 | |||
| Vernon Houses | Bedford-Stuyvesant | ||||||
| Walt Whitman Houses | Fort Greene | 15 | 6 and 13 | 1,636 | |||
| Weeksville Gardens | Crown Heights | 2 | 4 and 5 | 257 | |||
| William Reid Houses | East Flatbush | 1 | 20 | 228 | |||
| Williamsburg Houses | Williamsburg | 20 | 4 | 1,620 | Oldest public housing development in the borough. | ||
| Woodson Houses | Brownsville | 2 | 10 and 25 | 407 | |||
| Wyckoff Gardens | Boerum Hill | 3 | 21 | 528 | |||
| NYCHA Property | Neighborhood/Subsection | No.# of Buildings | No.# of Stories | No.# of Apartments | Date of Completion | Date of Demolition | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astoria Houses | Astoria | 22 | 6 and 7 | 1,102 | November 9, 1951 | |||
| Baisley Park Houses | South Jamaica | 5 | 8 | 385 | April 30, 1961 | |||
| Beach 41st Street-Beach Channel Drive Houses | Far Rockaway | 4 | 13 | 712 | November 30, 1973 | |||
| Bland Houses | Flushing | 5 | 10 | 400 | April 30, 1952 | |||
| Carleton Manor | Arverne | 1 | 11 | 170 | March 31, 1967 | |||
| Conlon L.I.H.F.E. Towers | Jamaica | 1 | 13 | 216 | March 31, 1971 | |||
| Forest Hills Co-op Houses | Forest Hills | 3 | 12 | 430 | November 30, 1975 | Left NYCHA in 2017 to become a tenant-managed co-op. | ||
| Hammel Houses | Rockaway Beach | 14 | 6 and 7 | 712 | April 30, 1955 | |||
| International Tower | South Jamaica | 1 | 10 | 153 | May 31, 1983 | |||
| Latimer Gardens | Flushing | 4 | 10 | 434 | September 30, 1970 | |||
| Leavitt House | Flushing | 1 | 6 | 83 | October 17, 1974 | |||
| Ocean Bay Apartments (Bayside) | Far Rockaway | 24 | 7 and 9 | 1,378 | September 25, 1961 | formerly known as Edgemere Houses | ||
| Ocean Bay Apartments (Oceanside) | Far Rockaway | 7 | 6 | 417 | February 28, 1951 | formerly known as Arverne Houses | ||
| Pomonok Houses | Flushing | 35 | 3, 7 and 8 | 2,070 | June 30, 1952 | |||
| Queensbridge Houses (North and South) | Long Island City | 96 | 6 | 3,142 | March 15, 1940 | the largest public housing complex in the United States. The oldest Public Housing development in Queens | ||
| Ravenswood Houses | Long Island City | 31 | 6 and 7 | 2,167 | July 31, 1951 | |||
| Redfern Houses | Far Rockaway | 9 | 6 and 7 | 604 | June 1, 1959 | |||
| Rehab Program | College Point | |||||||
| Shelton Houses | South Jamaica | 1 | 12 | 155 | October 31, 1978 | |||
| South Jamaica I Houses | South Jamaica | 11 | 3 and 4 | 440 | August 1, 1940 | |||
| South Jamaica II Houses | South Jamaica | 16 | 3 and 7 | 600 | October 25, 1954 | |||
| Woodside Houses | Woodside | 20 | 6 | 1,358 | December 30, 1949 | |||
| NYCHA Property | Neighborhood/Subsection | No.# of Buildings | No.# of Stories | No.# of Apartments | Date of Completion | Date of Demolition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berry Houses | Dongan Hills | 8 | 6 | 506 | October 30, 1950 | ||
| Cassidy-Lafayette Houses | Randall Manor | 4 | 6 | 381 | September 30, 1971 | ||
| Mariners Harbor Houses | Mariners Harbor | 22 | 3 and 6 | 605 | August 31, 1954 | ||
| New Lane Shores Houses | Shore Acres | 1 | 10 | 304 | July 31, 1984 | ||
| Richmond Terrace Houses | New Brighton | 6 | 8 | 489 | October 12, 1964 | ||
| South Beach Houses | South Beach | 8 | 6 | 422 | March 20, 1950 | ||
| Stapleton Houses | Stapleton | 6 | 8 | 693 | May 31, 1962 | Largest public housing development in the borough. | |
| West Brighton Houses | West New Brighton | 8 | 8 | 490 | December 31, 1962 | ||
| Todt Hill Houses | Manor Heights | 7 | 6 | 502 | June 1, 1950 | ||