Senator Robert F. Wagner Houses, also known as Triborough Houses, is a public housing

Public housing in the United States

Public housing in the United States has been administered by federal, state and local agencies to provide subsidized assistance for low-income and people living in poverty. Now increasingly provided in a variety of settings and formats, originally public housing in the U.S...

 development in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan

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, in New York City

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. The development was completed on May 31, 1958, and was named after Robert F. Wagner

Robert F. Wagner

Robert Ferdinand Wagner I was an American politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New York from 1927 to 1949.-Origin and early life:...

, who served four terms as senator of New York State. The complex is administered by the New York City Housing Authority

New York City Housing Authority

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The development, located east of First Avenue

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 in the northeast corner of Manhattan, consists of 14 16-story buildings and 8 7-story buildings, a total of 22 buildings. It has 5,290 residents who live in 2,154 apartments. The complex occupies 26.91 acres (10.9 ha). It cost $30,926,000 to construct.

The first family to move into the Wagner Houses, on August 3rd, 1958, moved from a cold-water flat on East 106th Street, which was also demolished to build Franklin Plaza Apartments.