Join FRIENDS of the Upper East Side for an illustrated webinar with historian Lucie Levine exploring Yorkville’s history as a testing ground for affordable and progressive housing schemes.

Yorkville, with its rich immigrant history, is a repository of “Model Tenements” and forward-thinking experiments in workers’ housing. The “French Flats” and “Light Court Tenements,” which were first built in Yorkville later proliferated throughout the city. The earliest examples of these forms, many of which still stand in Yorkville, offer tangible evidence of the history and evolution of affordable housing in New York City. They also serve as a valuable lesson in addressing the city's current affordable housing crisis.