Amsterdam Houses
Amsterdam Houses | |
|---|---|
 Amsterdam Houses, at southeast corner of West End Avenue and 63d Street (2008) | |
 Location in New York City | |
| Coordinates: 40°46′23″N 73°59′11″W / 40.773139°N 73.986444°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| City | New York City |
| Borough | Manhattan |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.001 sq mi (0.003 km2) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 334 [1] |
| ZIP codes | 10025, 10023 |
| Area codes | 212, 332, 646, and 917 |
| Website | my |
The Amsterdam Houses is a housing project in New York City that was established in the borough of Manhattan in 1948. The project consists of 13 buildings with over 1,000 apartment units. It covers a 9-acre expanse of the Upper West Side, and is bordered by West 61st and West 64th Streets, from Amsterdam Avenue to West End Avenue, with a 175-apartment addition that was completed in 1974 on West 65th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and West End Avenue. It is owned and managed by New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).[3][4]
History
[edit]The Amsterdam Houses were created on land that was once tenement buildings and were created for residents to have a higher standard of living. Three playgrounds were built for children of various ages and the development housed a nursery, gymnasium, clinic and a community center. With the opening of Lincoln Center in the 1960s, the neighborhood began to gentrify and saw many older residents retaining their apartments; by 2016, 70% of heads of households were over the age of 62.[5] The demographics living in this development were initially mixed, as it served to house post-war families in affordable housing. By no later than 2004, mostly black families occupied the Amsterdam Houses.[6]
Notable people
[edit]- barbara62, famous groundbreaking female graffiti artist[7]
- Erik Estrada (born 1949), actor known for his role on CHiPs [8]
- Daphne Maxwell Reid (born 1948), actress known for her role on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air [8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Amsterdam Houses Population".
- ^ "Amsterdam Houses Area". Retrieved November 7, 2019.
- ^ "MyNYCHA Developments Portal". my.nycha.info. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
- ^ "Amsterdam & Amsterdam Addition" (PDF).
- ^ Umbach, Fritz (2016). "Amsterdam Houses". In Bloom, Nicholas Dagen; Lasner, Matthew Gordon (eds.). Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 104–106. ISBN 9780691167817.
- ^ Kilgannon, Corey (August 2, 2004). "The Neighborhood Ties That Still Bind". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
- ^ "Barbara-62". Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber. March 1, 2010. Retrieved August 24, 2024.
- ^ a b Kimble, Julian (September 26, 2013). "Which NYC Housing Projects Have Produced the Most Famous People?Amsterdam Houses". Complex. Retrieved October 27, 2016.