Dyckman Houses

175 Nagle Avenue | also 177 Nagle Avenue | Inwood | built 1951

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1949
March 1
The city breaks ground on the Dyckman Houses
The Board of Estimate approves the Dyckman Houses project on May 27, 1948, and the city holds a groundbreaking ceremony on March 1, 1949. Architect William F. Ballard designs the NYCHA complex, which welcomes its first tenants in September 1950 and is fully completed the following spring.
Source: Wikipedia
1950
September
The first tenants move into the Dyckman Houses
The city's Board of Estimate approved the public housing project on May 27, 1948, and ground was broken on March 1, 1949. Designed by William F. Ballard, it has seven 14- and 15-story buildings between Tenth and Nagle Avenues, built partly on the site of the Dyckman Oval ballpark and partly over the old Sherman Creek. Tenants arrived in September 1950; construction finished in April 1951.
Source: Wikipedia
1950
Young Lew Alcindor, later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, moves to the Dyckman Houses
Born in Harlem in 1947, Lew Alcindor, who later took the name Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, moved with his parents to the Dyckman Houses in 1950. He told the New York Times in 2009 that the move was considered a step up. He grew up here until leaving for UCLA, and in 1967 and 1968 he came back to run basketball clinics across city public housing.
Source: gothamcenter.org

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