Schomburg Plaza

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Photographs by David Schalliol 15
6. 1. Below- market Subsidized Housing Begins
7. Introduction 35
8. Tenements 45
9. City and Suburban Homes Company 48
10. Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments 52
11. Sunnyside Gardens 58
12. Amalgamated Cooperative Apartments 63
13. Boulevard Gardens 67
14. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch 70
15. 2. Public Neighborhoods
16. Introduction 75
17. Fiorello LaGuardia 88
18. Charles Abrams 89
19. Harlem River Houses 91
20. Williamsburg Houses 94
21. Queensbridge Houses and East River Houses 99
22. Amsterdam Houses 104
23. Model Gallery I: Pre– World War II 107
24. 3. Public Housing Towers
25. Introduction 113
26. Robert F. Wagner, Jr 126
27. Jacob Riis Houses 128
28. Johnson Houses 131
29. Ravenswood Houses 134
30. 4. Stabilizing the Middle
31. Introduction 139
32. Stuyvesant Town 151
33. Bell Park Gardens 155
34. Queensview 161
35. Abraham Kazan 167
36. Penn Station South 170
37. Rochdale Village 176
38. Co-op City 179
39. Starrett City 185
40. Model Gallery II: Post– World War II 189
41. 5. Housing Reimagined
42. Introduction 193
43. West Side Urban Renewal Area 202
44. Jane Jacobs 207
45. West Village Houses 210
46. John Lindsay 213
47. Riverbend Houses 215
48. Schomburg Plaza 219
49. Edward J. Logue 224
50. Twin Parks 226
51. Marcus Garvey Village 231
52. Eastwood 234
53. Hip Hop and Subsidized Housing 239
54. 6. The Decentralized Network
55. Introduction 245
56. Urban Homesteading 258
57. Roger Starr 261
58. Nehemiah Houses 264
59. Abyssinian Development Corporation 269
60. The Koch Housing Plan 273
61. Asian Americans for Equality 276
62. Hughes House 280
63. Melrose Commons and Via Verde 283
64. Conclusion: Challenges and Opportunities 291
65. Model Gallery III: Contemporary 301
66. Notes 307
67. Contributors 331
68. Index 337
69. Illustration Credits 351