I found this article talking about making better housing for low income families on Sept 19, 1946.  The city was proposing public housing (Farragut Houses) to solve the housing shortage. They proposed housing for 1,400 families which was great but it still had a negative side to it. The negativity was that 800 families and 200 small business had to relocate because of it. Even though the city was trying to solve the problem of housing shortage but they gave a bigger problem to the people that were already there. I am wondering if that’s the reason why Vinegar Hill downgraded. Maybe the Farragut Houses are the reasons people left. Or even the reason why Vinegar Hill isn’t developing. I understand that it helped low income families but at the same time it hurt that people that were residing and working there. I wonder if other neighborhood went through the same problems.

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Aya_Morsy_Vinegar_Hill_Site Report #3

I used a couple of digital archives website to search for Preservation and Development in Vinegar Hill but I was unable to find what I was looking there. “The New York Public Library Digital Collection” was the only digital archive that showed Vinegar Hill in the 1800s. I searched for “Vinegar Hill” but it wasn’t helpful so I decided to search for “Bridge Street” and I found many information about it. I picked these two maps because it shows Vinegar Hill in 1855. As the maps show, it was an industrial and residential neighborhood. There were many shops in the neighborhood. I see that there is a huge difference between Vinegar Hill in 1855 and today. It was full factories and working places unlike now all these stores are closed and its considered to be a dead neighborhood. Also, it was full of residential houses that aren’t there anymore. I see that the neighborhood hasn’t developed much. Many of the surrounding neighborhood were development much more and in a positive way, which makes us question why didn’t Vinegar Hill develop like the other neighborhoods?

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-c001-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-c000-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Aya_Morsy_Vinegar Hill_ Site Report #2

Aya_Morsy_Vinegar Hill_ Site Report #1