The Robert Fulton Houses is a housing project located in the Chelsea

Chelsea, Manhattan

Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The district's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, 30th Street to the north, the western boundary of the Ladies' Mile Historic District – which lies between the Avenue of the Americas and...

 neighborhood in the New York City

New York City

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 Borough of Manhattan

Manhattan

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. The 6.27 acres (2.5 ha) site is located between West 16th and 19th Streets and bounded by Ninth

Ninth Avenue (Manhattan)

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 and Tenth

Tenth Avenue (Manhattan)

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 Avenues. The project consists of 945 apartments in eleven buildings; three of the developments are 25 stories, while the others are 6 stories high. The groundbreaking ceremony was held on October 15, 1962 and the buildings were completed on March 31, 1965. Its confines are within the 10th Police Precinct.

The housing project is named after engineer and inventor Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat...

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