Holmes Towers

The John Haynes Holmes Towers is a public housing project for low income residents of the Yorkville section of the Upper East Side located just south of the neighborhood's northern limit at 96th Street, in New York City, New York, United States. The neighboring Isaacs Houses and the Holmes Towers border East Harlem, which has the highest concentration of public housing in the United States. The two public housing buildings, designed by Architects Eggers and Higgins, were completed in 1969, are 25 stories tall and contain 537 apartments. The project is located between 92nd and 93rd Streets from 1st Avenue to York Avenue / the FDR Drive in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.

The development was named for the founder of the Community Church of New York. John Haynes Holmes was known as a pacifist, social organizer, and social justice pioneer.

History

As of 1973, the Towers were described as being home to white, elderly residents.[1] 60 percent of the apartments in Holmes Towers are set aside for tenants over the age of 62.

Since June 2006, a greenmarket has operated on 92nd Street and 1st Avenue in front of Holmes Towers. It was the first Greenmarket on a NYCHA property.

The Isaacs Houses projects are located just north of the Holmes Towers. Both developments are basically one complex totaling 5 buildings having the same Development Management Office managed by New York City Housing Authority.

Both housing projects, as a whole, have 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. Crime, however, is considered to be relatively minimal compared to the projects further north.[2]

In 2017 it was announced that the complex's playground would be razed for a new mixed-use building under New York's NextGen program.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Widow, 84, Found Stabbed to Death In 92d St. Project". New York Times. 23 February 1973. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  2. ↑ Crow, Kelly (10 November 2002). "NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: UPPER EAST SIDE; With Affluence All Around, A Little Crime Seems a Lot". New York Times. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  3. ↑ Weaver, Shaye (1 June 2017). "NYCHA Tenants 'Trapped in Shadows of Wealthy' Under City Plan, Electeds Say". DNAinfo. Archived from the original on 3 October 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017.

See also

Notable residents


Coordinates: 40°46′50.39″N 73°56′43.37″W / 40.7806639°N 73.9453806°W / 40.7806639; -73.9453806

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