Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City

Synopsis

1. Below-market Subsidized Housing Begins: Tenements / Andrew S. Dolkart -- City And Suburban Homes Company / Andrew S. Dolkart -- Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments / Matthew Gordon Lasner -- Sunnyside Gardens / Matthew Gordon Lasner -- Amalgamated Cooperative Apartments / Richard Greenwald -- Boulevard Gardens / Jeffrey A. Kroessler -- Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch / Nicholas Dagen Bloom -- 2. Public Neighborhoods: Fiorello Laguardia / Stephen Petrus -- Charles Abrams / Nancy H. Kwak -- Harlem River Houses / Nicholas Dagen Bloom -- Williamsburg Houses / Nicholas Dagen Bloom -- Queensbridge Houses And East River Houses / Hilary Ballon -- Amsterdam Houses / Fritz Umbach -- Model Gallery I Pre-world War Ii -- 3. Public Housing Towers: Robert F. Wagner, Jr. / Steven Levine -- Jacob Riis Houses / Nicholas Dagen Bloom -- Johnson Houses / Nicholas Dagen Bloom -- Ravenswood Houses / Nicholas Dagen Bloom -- 4. Stabilizing The Middle: Stuyvesant Town / Nicholas Dagen Bloom -- Bell Park Gardens / Matthew Gordon Lasner -- Queensview / Matthew Gordon Lasner -- Abraham Kazan / Peter Eisenstadt -- Venn Station South / Matthew Gordon Lasner -- Rochdale Village / Peter Eisenstadt -- Co-op City / Annemarie Sammartino -- Starrett City / Karina Milchman -- Model Gallery Ii Post-world War Ii -- 5. Housing Reimagined: West Side Urban Renewal Area / Jennifer Hock -- Jane Jacobs / Jennifer Hock -- West Village Houses / Christopher Klemek -- John Lindsay / Mariana Mogilevich -- Riverbend Houses / David Smiley -- Schomburg Plaza / Hilary Ballon -- Edward J. Logue / Lizabeth Cohen -- Twin Parks / Susanne Schindler -- Marcus Garvey Village / Karen Kubey -- Eastwood / Matthias Altwicker -- Hip Hop And Subsidized Housing / Lilian Knorr -- 6. The Decentralized Network: Urban Homesteading / Benjamin Holtzman -- Roger Starr / Brian Goldstein -- Nehemiah Houses / Nadia A. Mian -- Abyssinian Development Corporation / Brian Goldstein -- The Koch Housing Plan / Jonathan Soffer -- Asian Americans For Equality / Jennifer Hock -- Hughes House / Susanne Schindler -- Melrose Commons And Via Verde / Susanne Schindler -- Conclusion: Challenges And Opportunities: Model Gallery Iii Contemporary. Edited By Nicholas Dagen Bloom And Matthew Gordon Lasner ; With Photographs By David Schalliol. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.