aerial timeline
Source: NYC WMTS mapped in ArcGIS
1928 Satellite Imagery
1951 Satellite Imagery
1996 Satellite Imagery
2018 Satellite Imagery
nycha archival drawings
SELECTION OF DRAWINGS COLLECTED FROM NYCHA’S ARCHIVE
Jefferson Houses - Map of Damage Parcels
Jefferson Houses - Map of Sewer and Utilities
Jefferson Houses - Heating Site Plan
laguardia wagner archival photographs
DISPLAY IS FOR PERSONAL RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY
King Towers -Preconstruction Photo of a Tenement Building - 5/07/1943
King Towers - Preconstruction Photo of Existing Buildings - 3/12/1948
Johnson Houses - Preconstruction Photo of Abandoned Building -5/7/1943
Johnson Houses - Post Opening - 4/20/1949
Taft Houses - Preconstruction Photo of Children Playing - 4/22/1949
Taft Houses - Street Life - 4/22/49
Jefferson Houses - Street Life Preconstruction - October 1950
Jefferson Houses - Site Cleared for Construction - 08/29/1957
new york times archive
A SELECTION OF NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS FROM THE NY TIMES ARCHIVE
February 24th, 1997
June 9th, 1985
June 6th, 1930
new york public library archive
A SELECTION OF COLLECTED MATERIALS
Lenox Avenue, East Harlem -1869
Harlem Summer - 1939
Harlem Sitters - 1939
125th Street - 1943
East Harlem - 1940
Jefferson Houses - Advertisement - 1960
Fire in East Harlem - 1940
nycha data
MISC COLLECTION OF DATA RELATED TO NYCHA
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1. Graph from Nicholas Dagen Bloom’s book, Public Housing that Worked 2. NYCHA apartment disrepair, source: NYTimes 3. NYCHA Pamphlet from 1942, source: NYPL Digital Archives 4. Proposed Infill at Holmes Towers 5. Racial Demographics, source: NYCHA 6. NYCHA’s flood risk mapped in ArcGIS, source: NYC Open Data
site photos
urban mapping & representational techniques
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1. A Situationist “derive” collage, Guy Debord 2. 1849 Map of Canterbury, as Shaker Village in New Hampshire 3. Situationists-inspired Map, Jan 4. New Babylon, Guy Debord, 1963 5. CIAM “Atlas of the Functional City” cover image 6. CIAM “Atlas of the Functional City” 7. CIAM “Atlas of the Functional City” 8. “The Arsenal of Inclusion and Exclusion”, INTERBORO architects, illustration by Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez 9. Million Dollar Blocks by Laura Kurgan, Center for Spatial Research 10. La Defense Masterplan, Gallery of Future Fitting, Source: ArchDaily 11. Project 360, Urban Transects Revisited by Frank Dresme 12. Thesis Sketch by Trevor Patt Source: Flickr
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Bloom, Nicholas Dagen. Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
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“How NYCHA Preserves Diversity in Gentrifying Neighborhoods.” NYU Furman Center, April 2019. https://furmancenter.org/files/NYCHA_Diversity_Brief_Final-04-30-2019.pdf
WXY Studios, and Hester Street Collaborative. “East Harlem Neighborhood Plan.” Office of City Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito, February 2016. https://www.eastharlemplan.nyc/EHNP_FINAL_FINAL_LORES.pdf.