LaGuardia Houses

Between the construction of LaGuardia Houses and Baruch Houses, 1,650 people were displaced in 1953–1954.{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sewf0r5An-wC&dq=%22laguardia+houses%22+construction&pg=PA118|title=Selling the Lower East Side: culture, real estate, and resistance in New York City|last=Mele|first=Christopher|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|year=2000|isbn=978-0-8166-3182-7|edition=illustrated|series=Globalization and community|volume=5|location=Twin Cities|pages=118|chapter=3|accessdate=2010-01-16}} Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia Houses was completed July 31, 1957 and the nine buildings were designed by Hyman Isaac Feldman.{{cite web|url=http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=company&lng=3&id=101639|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604172621/http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=company&lng=3&id=101639|url-status=usurped|archive-date=June 4, 2011|title=Hyman Isaac Feldman|work=Emporis.com|publisher=Emporis Corporation|accessdate=17 January 2010}} LaGuardia Houses Addition was completed in 1965 and was designed by Emanuel Turano.{{cite web|url=http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=61470|title=Laguardia Houses Addition, New York City|work=Skyscraperpage.com|publisher=Skyscraper Source Media, LLC|accessdate=17 January 2010}} The development is named after Fiorello H. LaGuardia, the 99th Mayor of New York City who created the New York City Housing Authority and, although he was a Republican and President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a Democrat, worked closely with President Roosevelt to gain federal funding for projects throughout New York City.

The property was damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 by saltwater flooding 6-24 inches on the ground floors of four buildings. In 2015, it received part of $3 billion aid from the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) for NYCHA properties.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nycha-moved-family-hurricane-hit-mold-article-1.2415707|title=NYCHA moved family to another site after Hurricane Sandy, then hit by leak and mold: 'No one helped us'|last=Villasenor|first=Maria|website=nydailynews.com|date=October 29, 2015 |access-date=2019-07-08}}

In 2017, NYCHA began soliciting proposals from developers to build affordable and market-rate housing units at LaGuardia Houses as part of the agency' part "NextGeneration Neighborhoods" program intended to fund repairs. It was estimated that the development needs $70 million in capital improvements.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170428/lower-east-side/nycha-brings-nextgeneration-neighborhood-project-to-laguardia-houses|title=NYCHA to Bring Mixed Market Rate, Affordable Housing to LaGuardia Houses|website=DNAinfo New York|access-date=2019-07-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828184518/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170428/lower-east-side/nycha-brings-nextgeneration-neighborhood-project-to-laguardia-houses/|archive-date=August 28, 2018|url-status=dead}} Construction was planned to begin in 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.boweryboogie.com/2017/06/why-nycha-chose-laguardia-houses-for-35-story-nextgen-infill/|title=Why NYCHA Chose LaGuardia Houses for 35-Story 'NextGen' Infill|date=June 5, 2017|last=Perler|first=Elie|website=Bowery Boogie|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-08|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122123217/https://boweryboogie.com/2017/06/why-nycha-chose-laguardia-houses-for-35-story-nextgen-infill/|archive-date=2022-01-22}}{{update inline|date=April 2025}}

As of 2010,{{update inline|date=April 2025}} Jessica Thomas is the current Resident Association President for Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia Houses and Carmelo Lopez is the current Resident Association President for LaGuardia Houses Addition.{{cite web|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/html/residents/manhattanS_ccop.shtml|title=Manhattan South District CCOP Office|work=Residents' Corner|publisher=New York City Housing Authority|location=New York|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613210616/http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/html/residents/manhattanS_ccop.shtml|archivedate=13 June 2010|url-status=dead|accessdate=17 January 2010}}

• Ninfa Segarra (1950–), last President of the New York City Board of Education{{Cite web|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1993/12/02/469393.html?action=click&contentCollection=Archives&module=LedeAsset®ion=ArchiveBody&pgtype=article&pageNumber=36|title=Woman in the News; At Center of a Sweeping Struggle: Ninfa Segarra|last=Myers|first=Steven Lee|date=December 2, 1993|website=New York Times|language=en|access-date=2019-07-08}}

• New York City Housing Authority
• List of New York City Housing Authority properties

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• [http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nycha/downloads/pdf/La%20Guardia.pdf Map of LaGuardia Houses] from the New York City Housing Authority

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