Articles:

“$5 Million Low-Income Housing Development; Low-Rises Rising On Lower East Side.”  The New York Times.  June 30, 1996. Section 9;  Page 1;  Column 3. (Full text of  this article is available through a link to Lexis-Nexis online from the Architecture Library’s Web site: www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Divisions/Architecture/index.html

“Interview: David Burney, Director of Design, New York City Housing Authority.” Peter Slatin. Oculus 1994 Oct., v.57, n.2, p.9-11.
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Web Site:

The New York City Housing Authority.  www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/home.html

David Burney has been Director of Design since 1990.  The following information about the authority is from the NYC Housing Authority’s Web site:

        “The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is the largest public housing authority in America with more than twice the number of apartments than the second largest federally financed public housing agency, which is in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The number of people who reside in NYCHA developments exceeds the populations of Atlanta, Georgia; Sacramento, California; Minneapolis, Minnesota, or Miami, Florida.

        The Housing Authority was created in 1934 by then Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. By the end of 1935 NYCHA dedicated First Houses, our first development, located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. First Houses still exists today with 126 apartments in eight buildings around a courtyard housing some 174 residents. The original eight tenements were gutted and completely remodeled, and have undergone considerable modernization since then.

        There are 98 developments with 45,784 apartments in the Bronx; 101 developments with 59,022 apartments in Brooklyn; and 103 developments with 54,374 apartments in Manhattan. Queens has 22 developments with 17,106 apartments and Staten Island has 11 developments with 4,869. Today, NYCHA’s Conventional Public Housing Program has 345 developments throughout the city with 2,702 residential buildings housing about 174,195 families and approximately 418,810 residents. Those buildings have some 3,317 elevators. Among the 345 developments are 42 developments for seniors only with another 15 seniors-only buildings within mixed-population developments. There are more than 10,000 apartments designated for seniors only. And, there also are 6,160 retrofitted apartments occupied by families of persons with a disability. In addition, NYCHA administers the federal Section 8 Leased Housing Program in which 82,216 apartments are rented from 26,700 participating-private landlords. This program currently houses about 214,000 people. Conventional Public Housing represents 9% of the City’s rental apartments and its residents account for 6.6% of the City’s population. Adding in the Section 8 apartments, NYCHA provides 12.6% of the rental apartments and accounts for 9.2% of the City’s population.”