[Map of projects in Affordable Housing in New York]

Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City
Hunter East Harlem Gallery, 2180 Third Avenue (at East 119th Street)
February 10 ? May 15

Of the three exhibitions presented here, this is the only one (so far) that I've seen in person. Curated by Matthew Gordon Lasner from Hunter College, and Matthias Altwicker and Nicholas Dagen Bloom from NYIT, Affordable Housing in New York (AHNY) opened a few days after the similar-sounding but unrelated exhibition Affordable New York closed at the nearby Museum of the City of New York. I missed that exhibition, which was curated by Thomas Mellins, but according to Untapped Cities, "it aims to situate New York City as a pioneering force behind the affordable housing movement," and it "also emphasizes the range of people that are served by the various initiatives here." In this regard, there is a good deal of overlap (as well there should with affordable housing being the shared subject) between the earlier exhibition and the more compact AHNY.
[Model of 2BR apartment at Sunnyside Gardens, Queens]

AHNY is made up of three parts: 1) A timeline of 100+ years of affordable housing in New York; 2) Large-scale models of apartments in ten housing projects spanning that timeframe; and 3) Proposals by area schools that look to the future of affordable housing. A fourth piece added to the exhibition is a wall filled...