Below, you will find HDC’s 2025 report, How History and Housing Go Hand in Hand: An Annotated List of New Housing and Historic Buildings.
We are thrilled to share this illustrated report with eleven recent examples of new housing created in historic structures and historic districts across New York City, featuring both adaptive reuse and new construction.
The projects we selected represent a small fraction of the work currently being done to leverage New York’s historic built environment to meet its current housing needs.
We hope this report will highlight several ways New York’s historic structures are vital to the fight for housing production; illustrate how the landmarks process helps facilitate contextual development in all five boroughs; and showcase how preservation tools help promote residential development, sustainability and affordability in neighborhoods across New York.
