page_title: Morrisania, Bronx
section_title: Low income public housing projects
hierarchical_section_title: Morrisania, Bronx / Land use and terrain / Low income public housing projects
caption_attribution_description: Looking northeast up Park Avenue at Public Housing in Melrose, the Bronx.
context_page_description: Morrisania is a low-income residential neighborhood in the southwestern Bronx, New York City, New York. Its boundaries are the Cross-Bronx Expressway to the north, Crotona-Prospect Avenue to the east, East 161st Street to the south, and Webster Avenue to the west. Third Avenue is the primary thoroughfare through Morrisania.
  The name derives from the Manor of Morrisania, the vast 2,000 acre estate of the powerful and aristocratic Morris family, who at one time owned most of the Bronx as well as much of New Jersey. The family includes Lewis Morris, 4th Lord of the Manor, and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and Gouverneur Morris, penman of the United States Constitution. Both are buried in the crypt at St. Ann's Church of Morrisania. Today the name is most commonly associated with the neighborhood of Morrisania, which is only a small corner of the original Morrisania.
  Morrisania is part of Bronx Community Board 3, and its ZIP Codes include 10456 and 10459. The area is patrolled by the NYPD's 42nd Precinct. NYCHA property in the area is patrolled by P.S.A. 7 at 737 Melrose Avenue in the Melrose section of the Bronx.
context_section_description: Twenty NYCHA developments are located in Morrisania:
  1162-1176 Washington Avenue; one rehabilitated 6-story tenement building
  Butler Houses; six 21-story buildings
  Claremont Parkway-Franklin Avenue Area; three buildings, 3 and 7 stories tall
  Davidson Houses; one 8-story building
  Eagle Avenue-East 163rd Street; one 6-story building
  Forest Houses; fifteen buildings, 9, 10 and 14 stories tall
  Franklin Avenue I (Conventional); three rehabilitated tenement buildings, 5 stories tall
  Franklin Avenue I M.H.O.P. (Multi Family Homeownership Program); two rehabilitated tenement buildings, 5 stories tall
  Franklin Avenue II (Conventional); three rehabilitated tenement buildings, 5 stories tall
  Franklin Avenue III (Conventional); one 5-story rehabilitated tenement building
  Franklin Avenue III M.H.O.P. (Multi Family Homeownership Program); three rehabilitated tenement buildings, 5 stories tall
  Jennings Street M.H.O.P. (Multi Family Homeownership Program); three rehabilitated tenement buildings, 5 stories tall
  McKinley Houses; five 16-story buildings
  Morris I; ten buildings, 16 and 20 stories tall
  Morris II; seven buildings, 16 and 20 stories tall
  Morrisania Air Rights; two 16-story buildings
  PSS Grandparent; one 6-story building
  Union Avenue-East 163rd Street; one nine-story building
  Union Avenue-East 166th Street; six 3-story buildings
  Webster Houses; five 21-story buildings
caption: Morrisania Air Rights
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