CHRISTADORAHOUSE


Built 1928

The16-story settlement house was an innovative building of its time with a swimming pool, gymnasium and housing to accommodate and educate young women in the neighborhood. In 1948, the building was sold to the city and by the 60’s it came to be known as a place that housed many movement groups such as the Black Panthers/ Young Lords. In 1986 it was converted to condominiums and was percieved as a visible symbol of gentrification overlooking Tompkins Square Park.

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This project is an expansion of the themes from the exhibit Activist Estates: A Radical History of Property in Loisaida (2019) authored and designed by the urban historian and architect Nandini Bagchee in partnership with curator Libertad Guerra.

AELES is an evolving resource that can grow to include supplemental layers of the case studies selected and the ongoing survival and futuring intents of these legacies.