The project consists of 13 buildings with over 1,000 apartment units.

It is owned and managed by New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).

Three playgrounds were built for children of various ages and the development housed a nursery, gymnasium, clinic and a community center.

With the opening of Lincoln Center in the 1960s, the neighborhood began to gentrify and saw many older residents retaining their apartments; by 2016, 70% of heads of households were over the age of 62.

By no later than 2004, mostly black families occupied the Amsterdam Houses.