Henry Rutgers Houses, Building 1
45 Pike Street | also 55 Pike Street | Two Bridges | built 1963
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1963
Demonstrators block construction of the Rutgers Houses to demand building-trades jobs
In 1963 the Rutgers Houses site was one of several in the city where civil rights protesters tried to stop work until Black and Latino workers were hired in the building trades. Several demonstrators were taken into custody. Crews on the site were reported to say, without opposing the protest, that they were more integrated than most.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1965
The five 20-story Rutgers Houses towers are completed on the site of the demapped Pelham Street
Hart, Jerman & Associates designed the development in 1961, and it was finished on March 31, 1965, with five 20-story buildings and 721 apartments on about 5 acres. Pelham Street, which ran between Pike and Rutgers Streets, came off the maps around 1960 to make room. The project is named for Henry Rutgers (1745-1830), the Revolutionary War captain whose Bouwery farm covered much of the area.
Source: Wikipedia
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