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Changing New York; Sheriff Street, nos. 90-94

1935

90-94 Sheriff Street

Changing New York; Sheriff Street, nos. 90-94

IMAGE DATE1935
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Nos. 90-94 Sheriff Street, unknown date.

By the mid-1960s, the tenement buildings pictured had been razed for the development of the Masaryk Towers, six middle-income housing cooperatives built under the auspices of New York's Mitchell-Lama Housing Program. The towers — named for Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia — opened in 1967.

In recent years, the Masaryk board of directors has come under fire for restricting access to a de-mapped stretch of Rivington Street running through the development.

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