Designated 4/24/1990
City and Suburban Homes Company’s Avenue A Estate was the largest low-income housing project in the world at the time of its completion and remained the largest such project in Manhattan until the erection of the Amalgamated Dwellings and Knickerbocker Village in the 1930s. Its developer, the City and Suburban Homes Company was the most successful of the privately financed limited-dividend companies which attempted to address the housing problems of the nation’s working poor at the turn of the century.