410-430 East 6th Street; 59-69 Avenue A; 80-94 1st Avenue; 139-175 East 4th Street | Block : 432 | Lot #1

Description & Building Alterations

The Village View Houses were constructed in 1960. The project was originally intended to serve as low-income housing and was to be called the Franklin D. Roosevelt Houses. However, prior to the completion of construction, it was renamed and converted into middle-income cooperatives sponsored by a group of six colleges: NYU, City College, Bank Street College of Education, Cooper Union, Mills College of Education, and the New School for Social Research.

Before blocks 432 and 433 were combined into the present Block 432, lot numbers 18-24, 26-30, 32, 34, 37, 39, 40, and 42 of block 433 were part of William B. Astor’s holdings and were leased out to various people between 1850 and 1875.  His holdings also extended to the entirety of the original block 432, which was between East 4th and East 5th Streets.

NYCHA buildings 410 and 430 East 6th Street stands on the former Block 433 while buildings 69 Avenue A, 80 1st Avenue, and 175 East 4th Street stands on the former Block 432 (see the 1955 historic map).