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Forest Houses

Forest Houses
NYCHA property
Map
Interactive map of Forest Houses
Coordinates: 40°49′30″N 73°54′17″W / 40.825040°N 73.904660°W / 40.825040; -73.904660
Country United States
State New York
CityNew York City
BoroughBronx
ZIP codes
10456
Area codes718, 347, 929, and 917

The Forest Houses are a housing project in Morrisania, Bronx. The project consists of fifteen buildings, 9, 10 and 14-stories tall with 1,350 apartment units. It covers a 17.72-acre expanse, and is bordered by East 163rd and East 166th Streets, and Trinity and Tinton Avenues. It is owned and managed by New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).[1]

Development

Plans for the Forest Houses began in 1949 with securing funds from the federal government. NYCHA officials stated that the project was primarily a slum clearance program intended to provide better living conditions and a walkable community for the residents.[2] During demolition of the slums, the area was likened to a "bomb blast scene" and held a defense test on the site.[3] The development's design incorporated well-received modern features at the Carver Houses in East Harlem, including compact kitchens, electric ranges, and a refrigerator with freezer.[4] NYCHA publicized that the tenants would be 58% Black and 42% non-Black, most of which were Puerto Rican.[5] The Forest Houses were completed on November 12, 1956.[1]

In 2013, Forest Houses residents worked with Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn to create the "Gramsci Monument", a space to encourage the exchange between people, ideas and communities in the form of a pavilion.[6] Also that year, the NYCHA and Mayor Michael Bloomberg sold a portion of the development's property for the addition of a new privately owned building to offset the agency's capital needs.[7][8] The eight-story LEED-certified building was designated for low-income households earning less than 60 percent of the area median income and cost approximately $37.7 million to build.[8]

Notable residents

References

  1. ^ a b "MyNYCHA Developments Portal". my.nycha.info. Archived from the original on August 28, 2021. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
  2. ^ "80,000 APARTMENTS IN CITY PROJECTED; 500,000 Will Live in Public Housing Here by 1957, Local Authority Hopes". The New York Times. November 20, 1949. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
  3. ^ "AREA FOR DEFENSE TEST; It Is Housing Project Site and Resembles Bomb Blast Scene". The New York Times. November 23, 1952. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
  4. ^ "TENANTS REJOICE IN CARVER HOUSES; Aged Get First 8 Apartments in Uptown Project -- Special Features Have Big Appeal". The New York Times. January 26, 1955. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
  5. ^ Bloom, Nicholas Dagen (August 4, 2014). Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812201321.
  6. ^ "NYCHA - Forest Houses Residents To Help Build New Art Monument". www1.nyc.gov. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  7. ^ Bloom, Nicholas Dagen; Lasner, Matthew Gordon (2016). Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691167817.
  8. ^ a b Velsey, Kim (February 21, 2013). "An Arbor In the Forest: Green Affordable Housing Development Opens In the Bronx". Observer. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
  9. ^ a b c d e f Kimble, Julian (September 26, 2013). "Which NYC Housing Projects Have Produced the Most Famous People?Marcy Houses". Complex. Retrieved October 27, 2016.

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