The two public housing buildings, designed by Architects Eggers and Higgins, were completed in 1969, are 25 stories tall and contain 537 apartments.

[5] Both housing projects, as a whole, have been designated a "high crime zone" by the New York City Police Department's 19th precinct.

[7] In 2015 it was announced that the complex's playground would be razed for a new mixed-use building under New York's NextGen program to help meet the capital needs of NYCHA.

[12] In 2019, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer sued Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYCHA to block the new tower.

The lawsuit accused de Blasio of trying to use his power to push the towers through illegally by skirting zoning laws and not having the project go through Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP).