Fulton Houses
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History
The Robert Fulton Houses were designed by architects Brown & Guenther and were developed as a "vest pocket" site that retains the street grid.[1] The groundbreaking ceremony was held on October 15, 1962 and the buildings were completed on March 31, 1965. Its confines are within the 10th Police Precinct.[2][3]
The housing project is named after engineer and inventor Robert Fulton (1765-1815).
Due to financial needs of the NYCHA, the de Blasio administration began putting plans together to begin working with private developers in 2019. Fulton Houses is located in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood where median asking rent is $3,462. The plan proposed by the city includes demolishing and rebuilding two buildings and a parking garage in the housing project and replacing them with three larger buildings that 70 percent would be market-rate, and 30 percent would be “affordable enough” for current residents; and to turn over management to a private developer.[4][5][6][7] Residents of the project do not have any input in land-use decisions, and residents are organizing in opposition noting that previous conversions of public housing came with a 57 percent rent increase.[8] Average monthly rent for residents is $660.[4]
Development firms Related Companies and Essence Development proposed rebuilding the Fulton Houses and the nearby Chelsea-Elliott Houses in early 2023.[9] In a survey in June 2023, residents of the Chelsea-Elliott Houses and Fulton Houses voted in favor of demolishing the existing towers and constructing a 3,500-unit apartment complex on the same site. At the time, NYCHA officials estimated that the complexes needed about $1 billion in repairs and that it would cost about as much to build new complexes on the site.[10][11] PAU, COOKFOX Architects, and ILA were hired in early 2024 to design the Fulton Elliott-Chelsea Plan, which would involve converting 2,056 NYCHA apartments into mixed-income units.[12] Under the plan, six new towers would be built on the two sites before the existing buildings were demolished.[13] NYCHA's board approved the redevelopment of the Fulton Houses and Elliot-Chelsea Houses in November 2024.[14][15] The proposed cost for the two projects had risen to $1.9 billion by early 2025.[16]
Notable people
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- Shawn Wayans (born 1971), actor
- Marlon Wayans (born 1972), actor and comedian
- Keenan Ivory Wayans
- Damon Wayans
- Kim Wayans
See also
References
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