Clinton Houses

Governor DeWitt Clinton Houses, also known as DeWitt Clinton Houses or Clinton Houses, is a public housing development built and maintained by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) in the Spanish Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan.^[3] Clinton Houses is composed of six buildings, resting on a non-continuous campus with an area of 5.6 acres (23,000 m²).^[3] Five of those (I-V) are 18 stories high, and another (VI) is nine stories high.^[4] The six buildings have a total of 749 apartments,^[5] which house 1,823 people.^[3] Clinton Houses occupies the two blocks that are bordered by East 110th Street to the north, Lexington Avenue to the east, Park Avenue to the west, and East 108th Street to the south.^[6] It also occupies the western half of the two blocks that are bordered by East 106th Street to the north, Lexington Avenue to the east, Park Avenue to the west, and East 104th Street to the south, with the exception of a small part along East 106th Street.^[6]

Clinton Houses
NYCHA property
Location in New York City
Coordinates: 40.797300°N 73.942580°W / 40.797300; -73.942580
Country	United States
State	New York
City	New York City
Borough	Manhattan
Area [1]
• Total	0.008 sq mi (0.02 km2)
Population
• Total	1,749 [2]
ZIP codes	10029
Area code(s)	212, 332, 646, and 917
Website	my.nycha.info/DevPortal/

About

The Housing Committee's proposals for the development were held in 1959. At the hearing Jane Jacobs accused NYCHA of discriminating against the poor through displacement and embracing architecture oriented for middle-class need, advocating instead for retaining the social structure of the community by mixing low-rise buildings in with typical high-rises.^[7]

The Clinton Houses were designed by Perkins and Will and partially funded federally. It was one of the first vest-pocket properties which retained the city's street grid in response to Jacobs but was in the tower-in-the-park style to supply light and air.^[8] The development was completed on October 31, 1965. The development was named after DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828), who served as Mayor of New York City and Governor of New York. As mayor, Clinton fought for free public education, to remove voting restrictions from Catholics, and public welfare. As governor, he helped found the New York public school system, and introduced a bill into the New York State Senate to build a canal connecting the Northeastern United States with the Great Lakes via Lake Erie.^[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] Manhattan Community Board 11 governs Spanish Harlem, the neighborhood where Clinton Houses is.^[11]

See also

• New York City Housing Authority
• List of New York City Housing Authority properties

References

1. "Clinton Houses Area". Retrieved November 7, 2019.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
2. "Clinton Houses Population".^{[permanent dead link‍]}
3. "Clinton, DeWitt Houses". NYCHA Housing Developments. New York: New York City Housing Authority. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved January 18, 2010.
4. "Governor DeWitt Clinton Houses, New York City". Emporis.com. Emporis Corporation. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved January 18, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
5. Thomas E. Norton, Jerry E. Patterson (1984), Living it up: a guide to the named apartment houses of New York, p. 106
6. "NYCHA GIS". NYCHA Housing Developments. New York: New York City Housing Authority. Search for 1744 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan. Archived from the original on March 5, 2010. Retrieved January 18, 2010.
7. Rowan, Jamin Creed (May 12, 2017). The Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812294156.
8. Zipp, Samuel (May 24, 2010). Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199750702.
9. Chen, Michelle (June 16, 2014). "New York City Housing Authority May Be the City's Worst Landlord". ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
10. "Manhattan North District CCOP Office". Residents' Corner. New York: New York City Housing Authority. Archived from the original on June 13, 2010. Retrieved January 18, 2010.
11. "Manhattan Community Board 11". cb11m.org. New York: Manhattan Community Board 11. Archived from the original on January 26, 2010. Retrieved January 18, 2010.