Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia Houses, also known as LaGuardia Houses, is a public housing development

Public housing in the United States

Public housing in the United States has been administered by federal, state and local agencies to provide subsidized assistance for low-income and people living in poverty. Now increasingly provided in a variety of settings and formats, originally public housing in the U.S...

 built and maintained by the New York City Housing Authority

New York City Housing Authority

The New York City Housing Authority provides public housing for low- and moderate-income residents throughout the five boroughs of New York City. NYCHA also administers a citywide Section 8 Leased Housing Program in rental apartments...

 (NYCHA) on the Lower East Side

Lower East Side

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 of Manhattan

Manhattan

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. The development is named after Fiorello H. LaGuardia

Fiorello H. LaGuardia

Fiorello Henry LaGuardia was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a liberal Republican. Previously he was elected to Congress in 1916 and 1918, and again from 1922 through 1930. Irascible, energetic and charismatic, he craved publicity and is acclaimed as one of the three or...

, the 99th Mayor of New York City

Mayor of New York City

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 who created the New York City Housing Authority and, although he was a Republican

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 and President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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 was a Democrat

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, worked closely with President Roosevelt to gain federal funding for projects throughout New York City.

Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia Houses is composed of thirteen buildings, all of which are sixteen stories tall. The buildings have 1,093 apartments house approximately 2,596 people. The complex occupies 10.96 acres (4.4 ha), and is bordered by Madison Street

Madison Street (Manhattan)

Madison Street is a two-way thoroughfare in the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan that begins under the Brooklyn Bridge entrance ramp and ends at Grand Street. It is roughly sixteen large city blocks long. Due to security measures implemented after the September 11, 2001...

 to the north, Montgomery Street to the east, Cherry Street

Cherry Street (Manhattan)

Cherry Street, is a one-way street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It currently has two sections, mostly running along parks, public housing, co-op buildings, tenements, and crossing underneath the Manhattan Bridge overpass....

 to the south, and Rutgers Street to the west.

LaGuardia Houses Addition is a sixteen-story tower for elderly people at the corner of Jefferson Street and Cherry Street

Cherry Street (Manhattan)

Cherry Street, is a one-way street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It currently has two sections, mostly running along parks, public housing, co-op buildings, tenements, and crossing underneath the Manhattan Bridge overpass....

.

Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia Houses was completed July 31, 1957. These nine buildings were designed by Hyman Isaac Feldman. Between the construction of LaGuardia Houses and Baruch Houses

Baruch Houses

Bernard M. Baruch Houses, or Baruch Houses, is a public housing development built by the New York City Housing Authority on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, at . The development is named after Bernard Baruch, a Wall Street trader, economic advisor during World War I and World War II, and...

, 1,650 people were displaced in 1953-1954. LaGuardia Houses Addition was completed in 1965. It was designed by Emanuel Turano.

Jessica Thomas is the current Resident Association President for Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia Houses. Carmelo Lopez is the current Resident Association President for LaGuardia Houses Addition.