Box 14 Folder 1
Pre-History, 1874, 1934, 1947
Clippings, a book excerpt, and a booklet titled "Nonprofit Housing Projects in the United States" by the United States Department of Labor
Box 14 Folder 2
National History: 1934-1945, 1931-1987
Collected essays, correspondence with Gail Radford, and clippings
Box 14 Folder 3
National History: 1945-1980, 1984-1985
Includes a collected draft written by Rachel G. Bratt with correspondence
Box 14 Folder 4
New York History: 1930's, 1984-1986
Includes a draft titled "Public Housing in the United States in the 1930's: The Case of New York City," copies of images related to NYCHA projects, and notes
Box 14 Folder 5-7
New York History: 1934-1945, 1934-1946, 1985
Includes clippings, letters, memos, excerpts, and other reference materials
Box 14 Folder 8
New York History: 1946-1980, 1946-1980, undated
Includes clippings, letters, memos, excerpts, and other reference materials
Box 14 Folder 9
Administration, 1953-1985
Includes profiles of NYCHA administrators, clippings, collected papers, and summary notes
Box 14 Folder 10
Admission, 1935-1993
Includes clippings, memos, releases, application forms, charts, collected essays, students' papers, notes, and drafts regarding tenant selection
Box 15 Folder 1
Amalgamated Houses, 1962, 1982, undated
Notice of referendum, collected paper, and copies of booklets
Box 15 Folder 2-3
Annual Reports, 1934-1987
Various editions of NYCHA annual reports
Box 15 Folder 4-5
Architecture, 1972-2004
Includes a draft titled "Does Architecture Matter?" and collected papers and reports, students' papers, clippings, and excerpts
Box 15 Folder 6
Archives, 1984-1985, 1991
Includes correspondence, inventory lists, and processing reports regarding the Fiorello H. LaGuardia Archives' acquisition of NYCHA's archive
Box 15 Folder 7
Arson, 1983-1996, undated
Box 15 Folder 8
Bibliographies, 1953, 1976, 1984, 1993
Bibliographies on "Public Housing" by Peter Marcuse with notes; "The History of Low-Income Housing in New Yok City, 1900-1984: Bibliography" by Moon Wha Lee; "Reading List on Housing in the United States" issued by the office of the Administrator; and "Defensible Space and Security: A Partially Annotated Bibliography" by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Box 15 Folder 9
Chronology, 1965, 1969, undated
Includes "Housing in New York City: A Chronology," "Highlights of the History of New York City," and "NYCHA Chronology"
Box 15 Folder 10
City Program, 1934-1986
Drafts, a NYCHA report titled "Housing without Cash Subsidy," NYCHA's "Survey of 23 Low Rental Housing Projects in New York City," notes, memos, letters, and other reference materials regarding local (city) government provision on housing
Box 15 Folder 11-13
Collected Papers & Reports: 1921-1960, 1921-1957
Carol Aronovici, "Housing and the Housing Problem" andAmerica Can't Have Housing"; Edith Elmer Wood,Slums and Blighted Areas in the United States;One-Third of a Nation;What the Housing Act Can Do for Your City; CHPC, "Harlem Housing"; City Planning Commission, "Adoption of a City-wide Map Showing Sections Containing Areas for Clearance, Replanning and Low Rent Housing"; R. G. Tugwell, "Implementing the General Interest"; Federal Housing Administration,A Handbook on Urban Redevelopment for Cities in the United States; Herman T. Stitchman, "The Emergency in Housing" and "Housing Policy in the Expanding Region: A Return to Neighborhood Living"; WNBC, "Housing 1947"; Anthony F. C. Wallace, "Housing and Social Structure"; New York Chamber of Commerce, "Public Housing in New York City"; "Paul Tishman's View on Middle-Income Housing"; Elizabeth Wood, "The Small Hard Core" and "Public Housing and Mrs. McGee"; Robert F. Wagner, "Workable Program for Urban Renewal of the City of New York"
Box 16 Folder 1-3
Collected Papers & Reports: 1961-1980, 1962-1979, undated
City Planning Commission, "1962-3 Urban Renewal Study Program"; Citizens Union and CHPC, "A Program for Community District"; Community Renewal Program, "New York City's Renewal Strategy"; Elizabeth Wood, "Social Planning: A Primer for Urbanists"; Institute of Public Administration, "Developing New York City's Human Resources: Volume II"; Pratt Planning Papers Volume 4 No.2 (March 1966); David A. Crane, "Planning and Design in New York"; William L. Rafsky, "Publicly Assisted Housing"; Institute of Public Administration, "'Let There Be Commitment': A housing, Planning and Development Program for New York City"; Walter Goodman, "The Battle of Forest Hills--Who's Ahead?"; The Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants, "Your Rent & The Brooke Amendment" and "Leases and Grievance procedures for Public Housing"; Sherry Ann Suttles, "Reactions of Public Housing Tenants to the Design of Their Projects"; New York Urban Coalition's Housing Rehabilitation Task Force, "Report and Proposal"; Department of City Planning, "Proposed Fifth Year Community Development Program: Housing Assistance Plan"; a draft by L. H. Spence
Box 16 Folder 4-6
Collected Papers & Reports: 1981-1996, 1982-1996, undated
Department of City Planning, "City Assistance for Small Manufactures"; Congressional Budget Office, "Federal Subsidies for Public Housing: Issues and Options"; "At Home in the New City: Housing in New York 1910-1983"; Cooper Square Committee, "Celebrating 25 Years of Cooper Square 1959-1984"; Norman I. Fainstein and Susan S. Fainstein, "The Politics of Urban Development: New York City Since 1945"; Douglas S. Massey and Adam Bickford, "The Effect of Public Housing on Black Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas"; "Means Historical Cost Indexes 1988"; "1988 Dodge Square Foot Cost Data"; Doug Turetsky, "Neighborhoods Rising"; Sally-Hernandez-Pinero, "The Homeless and Public Housing in New York City"; Douglas S. Massey and Shawn M. Kanaiaupuni, "Public Housing and the Concentration of Poverty"; Nadia Venturini, "Nascita di un Complesso di Edilizia Popolare A New York: East River Houses"; David P. Varady, "Determinants of Neighborhood Satisfaction Among Public Housing Residents: Implications for the New Public Housing Program"; The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, "Public Housing and Substance Abuse: Access to Treatment"
Box 16 Folder 7
Construction Management, 1986
Memos from NYCHA officials
Box 16 Folder 8-9
Contracts, 1984-1988
Contracts between Peter Marcuse, the Fiorello H. LaGuardia Archives, and NYCHA with correspondence and notes
Box 16 Folder 10
Correspondence, 1984-1993
Box 16 Folder 11
Crime, 1994-1996
Includes collected papers and clippings
Box 16 Folder 12
Determinants - Economic, 1935-1936, 1987-1988
Collected papers, excerpts, clippings, and notes
Box 16 Folder 13
Determinants - Political, undated
Box 16 Folder 14
Determinants - Social Control, 1986
Correspondence with and a draft by Christian Topalov with notes
Box 16 Folder 15
Drugs, 1989
Memo, report, and clipping regarding drug traffic in public housing
Box 16 Folder 16
Evaluation, 1968-1969, 1984-1987
Includes copies of a paper titled "The Public Housing Program: Private Pacification or Public Purpose? A Cost-Benefit Analysis," notes, memos, correspondence, and collected papers
Box 16 Folder 17
Financial, 1988
Excerpt from "New York City's Housing Crisis: Public Spending and Its Results, 1984-1987" by Citizens Budget Commission, September 1988
Box 17 Folder 1
First Houses, 1934-1986
Includes letters, memos, releases, key plans, clippings, and summary notes
Box 17 Folder 2
Future Trends, 1939-1997
Includes reference materials on Marine Drive Apartments, Buffalo, and collected papers, memos, releases, and clippings on public housing ownership
Box 17 Folder 3
Grant, 1954-1973
Releases, lists, tables, and a fact sheet regarding General Grant Houses
Box 17 Folder 4
Graphs, ca. 1985
Includes graphs on number of units, ethnic composition, application, and other matters in public housing between 1935 and 1985
Box 17 Folder 5
Harlem River Houses, 1934-1988
Letters, reports, memos, key plans, collected papers, summary notes, and a draft
Box 17 Folder 6
Home Ownership, 1984-1992
Collected papers, clippings, and memos
Box 17 Folder 7
Hope VI, 1999-2002
Correspondence regarding Community Renaissance Fellows Program Conference discussing "Learning from Hope VI" at Yale University, March 2000, with a bibliography, a collected paper, clippings, and notes
Box 17 Folder 8
HUD, 1994-1996, undated
Memos, reports, and clippings regarding the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) programs
Box 17 Folder 9
Human Interest, 1964, 1983-1988
Booklets by NYCHA, clippings, governmental reports, and Neighborhood journals
Box 17 Folder 10
Journal Article, 1985
Drafts of "The Beginnings of Public Housing in New York" written for the Journal of Urban History
Box 17 Folder 11
Lectures, 1989-1992
Teaching outlines for "PhD Seminar" and for "Seminar on the City"
Box 17 Folder 12
Legal, 1951-1986
Excerpts, collected papers, and a booklet
Box 17 Folder 13
Management, 1986-1993
Collected papers and clippings
Box 17 Folder 14
Manhattantown, 1951
Copy ofManhattantown: Slum Clearance Plan Under Title I of the Housing Act of 1949
Box 17 Folder 15-19
Manuscript, 1986-1989
Drafts of a book manuscript on the history of public housing in New York
Box 14 Folder 11
Maps, 1982-1988
General maps of New York and specific maps regarding public housing, including maps published by the NYCHA and the Department of City Planning, City of New York
Box 18 Folder 1
Mayor's Committee for Better Housing, 1955
Various reports written by the Mayor's Committee for Better Housing of the City of New York
Box 18 Folder 2
Middle Income, 1935-1986
Notes, collected papers, clippings, memos, and letters
Box 18 Folder 3
Miscellaneous, 1967-1998
Clippings, pamphlets, bulletins, etc. that were not contained within specific original folders
Box 18 Folder 4
Moses, 1986-1989
Drafts titled "Robert Moses and Public Housing: Contradiction In, Contradiction Out," index of archival materials, correspondence, memos, transcripts, and releases related to Robert Moses' involvement as the Chairman of the City Committee on Slum Clearance
Box 18 Folder 5
National Tenants Organization, 1989-1991
Includes a copy of a reprint of "The Rise of Tenant Organizations" published by The Nation, July 19, 1971, and materials from or on the National Tenants Organization
Box 18 Folder 6
Notes, undated
Various notes that were not contained within specific original folders
Box 18 Folder 7
Other Programs, 1987-2000
Notes, clippings, a booklet on programs by NYCHA
Box 18 Folder 8
Photos, 1942-1984
Photographs (17) of various NYCHA projects and a set of photographs (6) regarding "New York City Housing Authority: Fifty Years of Photographic History, 1934-84" with press release
Box 18 Folder 9
Problem Estates, 1994-1997
Includes reference materials regarding housing privatization primarily in Estonia
Box 18 Folder 10
Project Data, 1977-1991
Various editions of NYCHA Project Data
Box 18 Folder 11-12
Projects, 1937-2015
Notes, clippings, letters, memos, maps, and collected papers on various NYCHA projects including Jacob Riis Houses, Red Hook, Vladeck Houses, Lillian Wald Houses, Edwin Markham Houses, Forest Hills, Chelsea Houses, Bushwick Houses, and Queensbridge Houses
Box 18 Folder 13
Protest, 1954-1976
Clippings, excerpts, memos, newsletters, and other reference materials
Box 18 Folder 14
Public Housing, 1976-2000, 2015
Includes drafts titled "Interpreting 'Public Housing' History" and "Public Housing locational decisions," correspondence regarding journal and book contributions, and notes for a discussion on the evolution of NYCHA in 1999
Box 18 Folder 15
Publishing, 1988-1991
Includes correspondence with publishers--including Columbia University Press, Temple Press, and Oxford University Press--about a book on the history of public housing in New York
Box 18 Folder 16
Race, 1954-1993
Clippings, collected papers, and notes
Box 18 Folder 17
Rand, 1968-1971
Various reports by the Rand Corporation
Box 18 Folder 18
Redevelopment, undated
Draft titled "The Development of Redevelopment: Class Struggle and the 'Housing Question'"
Box 18 Folder 19
Rehabilitation, undated
Box 18 Folder 20
Rent Levels, 1987
Correspondence and data tables regarding rent levels in NYCHA housing
Box 18 Folder 21
Reorganization, 1942-1960, undated
Notes, letters, memos, and clippings regarding the reorganization of the NYCHA
Box 19 Folder 1
Services, 1947-1966, 1991
Clippings and a collected paper written by Richard Funderburg on community services provided by NYCHA
Box 19 Folder 2
Siphon, 1982, 1988
Draft titled "Divide and Siphon: Housing Policy in New York City since the War," notes on the siphon effect in housing, and an edition of the Manhattan Report on Economic Policy, vol II. no. 6
Box 19 Folder 3
Site Selection, 1936-1989
Includes articles, letters, maps, collected papers, notes, and correspondence regarding site selection in NYCHA projects
Box 19 Folder 4
Slums, Undated, 1994
Drafts titled "Reforming the Space of the City" with a clipping
Box 14 Folder 12
State Public Housing, 1938-1986
Includes letters, reports, articles, clippings, and collected papers primarily on Mitchell-Lama Housing
Box 14 Folder 13
Statistics, 1946-1983
Tabulations showing racial distributions ("White," "Black," "Puerto Rican," and "Other") in NYCHA's housings
Box 19 Folder 5
Submission of Sites, [1962]
Four booklets ofSubmission of "Authority" Sites to the City Planning Commissionby the NYCHA
Box 19 Folder 6-7
Tenant Data, 1988, 1991
Tenant Data: Characteristics of Tenants as of January 1, 1988andTenant Data: Characteristics of Tenants as of January 1, 1991created by NYCHA Research and Policy Development
Box 19 Folder 8
Tenant Management, 1984-1987
Report titled "Tenant Participation and Tenant Management Projects at the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority: Preliminary Assessment and Observations co-written by Harry J. Wexler and Peter Marcuse, collected papers and reports, clippings, and correspondence
Box 19 Folder 9
Tenant Selection, 1976, 1984, undated
Audit report, manual, and text material regarding NYCHA tenant selection policies, procedures, and practices
Box 19 Folder 10
Tenants, 1972-2004
Includes a published paper titled "Housing Movements in the USA" (1999), correspondence, notes, clippings, a booklet, and collected papers on tenants organizations
Box 19 Folder 11
Veterans, 1946-1971, undated
Includes memos, letters, and clippings
Box 14 Folder 14
Vladeck Houses, 1938-1989
Letters, basic information, clippings, and tabulations
Box 19 Folder 12
Welfare, 1985
Correspondence with NYCHA administrator George Gross
Box 19 Folder 13
Williamsburg Houses, 1934-1937
Key plans, letters, a booklet published by Public Works Administration
Box 19 Folder 14
William Reid, 1958-1961
Drafts and transcripts of speeches, addresses, and talks by William Reid
Box 19 Folder 15
Women, 1988
Notes and a collected draft on women's managerial roles in NYCHA housings