Baruch Houses

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{{short description|Public housing development in Manhattan, New York}}

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| area_footnotes = {{cite web |title=Baruch Houses Area |url=https://my.nycha.info/DevPortal/Portal|access-date=November 7, 2019 }}

| area_total_sq_mi = 0.042

| population_total = 5,101 {{cite web|title=Baruch Houses Population|url=https://my.nycha.info/DevPortal/Portal/DevelopmentData}}

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| postal_code = 10002

| area_codes = 212, 332, 646, and 917

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Bernard M. Baruch Houses, or Baruch Houses, is a public housing development built by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Baruch Houses is bounded by Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive to the east, E. Houston Street to the north, Columbia Street to the west, and Delancey Street to the south.{{cite web|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/html/developments/manbaruch.shtml|title=BARUCH HOUSES/BARUCH ADDITION|work=NYCHA Housing Developments|publisher=New York City Housing Authority|location=New York|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329072741/http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/html/developments/manbaruch.shtml|archive-date=29 March 2010|url-status=dead|access-date=16 January 2010}} The complex, the largest NYCHA development in Manhattan, occupies {{convert|27.64|acre|sqm}} (equivalent to fifteen blocks), of which buildings cover 13.4%, a percentage similar to that of most "tower in the park" project designs.{{cite book|last=Plunz|first=Richard|title=A History of Housing in New York City|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York|year=1990|edition=reprint, illustrated|pages=268–269|isbn=978-0-231-06297-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AS1bGTRSggYC|access-date=2010-01-16}} It has 2,194 apartments, which house an estimated 5,397 people.{{cite web|url=http://www.mbpo.org/uploads/Land%20Rich-Pocket%20Poor.pdf |title=Land Rich-Pocket Poor |work=mbpo.org |publisher=Manhattan Borough President's Office |access-date=16 January 2010 |location=New York |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126081503/http://mbpo.org/uploads/Land%20Rich-Pocket%20Poor.pdf |archive-date=26 November 2010 }} These apartments are distributed throughout 17 buildings. Baruch Houses I is seven stories tall, Baruch Houses XI, XIII, and XV are thirteen stories tall, and the rest (II-X, XII, XIV, XVI-XVII) are fourteen stories tall.{{cite web|url=http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/cx/?id=103472 |title=Bernard M. Baruch Houses, New York City |work=Emporis.com |publisher=Emporis Corporation |access-date=16 January 2010 |location=New York |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604170248/http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/cx/?id=103472 |archive-date=4 June 2011 }} Combined, these buildings have {{convert|2.9|e6sqft|m2}}.

Baruch Houses Addition, or Baruch Addition, is an eighteenth building for seniors, built in 1977.{{cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:RXbCJUt3xNkJ:www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/downloads/pdf/070008.pdf+%22baruch+addition%22&hl=en&gl=us&sig=AHIEtbStldySfUD-53aHjw78wf6MdeEMlg|title=Guide to applying for public housing|publisher=New York City Housing Authority|access-date=16 January 2010}} Baruch Addition is located on Columbia Street, at the start of Rivington Street, and has 197 units in twenty-three stories.