Isaacs Houses
Isaacs Houses | ||
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ZIP codes 10128 | ||
| Area code(s) | 212, 332, 646, and 917 | |
| Website | my | |
The Stanley M. Isaacs Houses (or Isaacs Houses) is a
Development
The Isaacs Houses were designed by architects Frederick G. Frost Jr. & Associates and completed in 1965.
The development has been designated a "high crime zone" by the New York City Police Department's 19th precinct since the early 2000s, and are thus policed to a higher extent, especially due to the heavy socio-economic mixing of the immediate surrounding area, which includes public housing, working-class small tenement buildings, middle-class medium-size buildings, and upper-middle class to upper-class luxury buildings along 1st avenue in the area.[6]
The housing project started as a unique and unprecedented community experiment by selecting many of the initial residents from the local Catholic parish, with assistance of Leyda Jimenez and other community ambassadors involved with the local Catholic Church. While this created a tight-knit, low-crime community for the first few decades of the Isaac Houses’ history, today the houses are known for higher crime rates. In 2018, the Isaacs Houses along with the Holmes Towers and Robbins Plaza, which are all run by the same managers, ranked the worst in the nation after federal inspections by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.[7]
See also
References
- ^ "Isaacs Houses Population".
- ^ "St. Nicholas Houses Area". Retrieved November 7, 2019.
- ^ a b c d "MyNYCHA Developments Portal". my.nycha.info. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
- ISBN 9780199779536.
- ^ "New City Housing to Bear Name of Stanley Isaacs". The New York Times. July 11, 1963. p. 18. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
- ^ Hicks, Nolan; Fenton, Reuven; Golding, Bruce (September 11, 2018). "Feds rank UES housing projects among worst in nation". New York Post. Retrieved July 2, 2019.