Demolition of East 30th to 33rd Streets, First to Second
Avenues, 1958
In order to construct middle class housing, the Mayor’s Committee on Slum Clearance
condemned the ten-acre area between 30th and 33rd Streets, First and Second
Avenues in 1954. This required the removal of 1,600 low income families living
in apartments for which they paid as little as $25 per month. Despite protests
from residents who said their neighborhood was not a slum, all buildings on
these three blocks were demolished in preparation for construction of the Kips
Bay Plaza apartment complex, completed in 1965.
