New York City Housing Authority - Statistics

Statistics

• Staten Island has 10 developments with 4,431 apartments
• Queens has 26 developments with 17,500 apartments
• The Bronx has 100 developments with 44,179 apartments
• Brooklyn has 98 developments with 58,334 apartments
• Manhattan has 103 developments with 53,830 apartments

• The Brownsville section of Brooklyn now has the highest concentration of low income public housing in America, following the demolition of a huge 5-mile long tract of public housing stretching along State and Federal on Chicago's South Side. While pre-Plan For Transformation Chicago Housing Authority high-rise developments tended to be much larger and more concentrated than those of the NYCHA, the NYCHA operates several times as many apartments and houses three times as many residents. East Harlem in Manhattan has the second highest concentration of public housing in the nation, closely following Brownsville.
• The Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City, Queens, is now North America's largest housing project with 3,142 apartments, following the demolition of several larger Chicago housing projects, including the Cabrini–Green Homes and the Robert Taylor Homes (whose 4,321 three, four and five bedroom apartments once made it the largest public housing project in the world).
• The Bronx's largest development is Edenwald Houses in Edenwald with 2,036 apartments.
• Brooklyn's largest development is Red Hook Houses in Red Hook with 2,878 apartments.
• Manhattan's largest development is Baruch Houses on the Lower East Side with 2,391 apartments
• Staten Island's largest development is Stapleton Houses with 693 apartments.
• 6 developments consisting of FHA Acquired Homes are located in more than one borough and total 192 apartments
• 42 developments are for seniors only; 15 seniors-only buildings exist within mixed-population developments
• NYCHA has more than 10,000 apartments designated for seniors only
• There also are 7,639 retrofitted apartments for families of persons who are mobility impaired as of September 30, 2007
• As of October 1, 2007: Two developments are at least 70 years old; a total of 13 developments are at least 60 years old; there are 62 developments 50 to 59 years old; another 76 developments are 40 to 49 years old, and 95 developments are 30 to 39 years old.

• The combined demographics of all public housing developments in New York City is about 51% Black, 46% Hispanic, 2% White, and 1% Asian and other. Mainly of African Americans and Puerto Ricans, and to a lesser extant of Dominicans, Jamaicans, Haitians, Mexicans, Panamanians, and Asian immigrants, among others.