Knickerbocker Village Limited is a housing development in Manhattan, New York City. It is situated between the Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge, in the Two Bridges section of the Lower East Side.

Apr 25, 2019 · In 1933, a new development rose on the Lower East Side. It was Knickerbocker Village, the first federally-funded apartment complex in the United States, and one of the first developments that...

Located between the ramps of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges at the nexus of Manhattan’s historic Lower East Side and Chinatown districts, Knickerbocker Village was New York City’s first federally-subsidized housing development.

Occupying two entire city blocks of the Lower East Side, Knickerbocker Village is one of the largest middle-income housing complexes in the city. It was built in 1933 to house a predicted wave of middle- class residents after slum housing on the site was demolished.

Sep 18, 2019 · Over the course of its 86-year history, Knickerbocker Village, a Depression era affordable housing complex on a hilly section of the Lower East Side between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges,...

May 3, 2024 · L+M Fund Management has bought the 1,600-unit Knickerbocker Village affordable housing complex after years of battling some tenants over the sale. The L+M Development Partners affiliate...

Dec 26, 2012 · Although hard hit by Hurricane Sandy, Knickerbocker Village still looks like an urban fortress, with its aging collection of 13-story brick buildings spanning one full city block.

Nov 1, 2019 · The Knickerbocker Village complex, the bundle of brown-brick buildings just south of the Manhattan bridge near the ball field, will preserve the affordability of its 1,590 units under an...

Dec 31, 2014 · Knickerbocker Village is one of New York City’s biggest housing developments. Built in 1933, it replaced two whole city blocks of working-class slums and tenement housing with 1,590 apartments originally intended for New York’s growing middle class.

Aug 18, 2024 · Set between the Two Bridges in Chinatown, the two-city-block long property was bordered by Monroe Street, Market Street, Cherry Street and Catherine Street, and included the "lung block," infamous in New York because of its high tuberculosis mortality rate.