Isn’t there a NYCHA building near there?
“Isn’t there a NYCHA building near there?”
There is a bloack long group of NYCHA buildings on both sides of WEST 27th street, on the west side of Manhattan.
Back in very early 197os there was several blocks of old delapidated buildings from East 26th street to East 31st street, between 2nd and 1st avenues that were all torn down.
There is one NYCHA building on the end of east 28th street between 2nd and 1st ave (built in 1971) and the not-for-profit private housing developer, Phipps Houses, has an apartment building at the corner of east 26th and 2nd ave. Phipps gets tax abatements and other “stimulus” (in return for X number of apartments being “affordable) but is otherwise private and privately run.
The rest of the area from 31st to 26th, from 2nd ave to 1st ave was privtaely developed and contains apartments and retail spaces, including a large multiplex movie theater (all tht retail faces 2nd ave).
in the 1970s, a really smart little evangelica Christian church in a very old building at the cornner of 2nd ave and 27th street managed to buy their bulding and the land under it, and found savy bankers and a developer that tore the whole thing down and built a highrise aparment bulding with new Church facilities on the first floor on the 27th street side. The rents in that buidling, owned by the church, have i am sure long paid of the mortgage on the building. I remember how we all admired the folks in that little church for what they did.