Amsterdam Houses | |
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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]
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]