Corlears Hook Houses

The weathered brick and dramatic location -- on the Lower East Side just south of the Williamsburg Bridge -- give the Corlears Hook Houses a vaguely cliff-like appearance.  They were built in 1956 as cooperative housing by the ILGWU (NY Songlines).


The towers look great in the right light, from the view through to Brooklyn across the East River, above, to the notched balcony pattern, below left.  And if you have nothing better to do, you can study the stuff-collecting habits of the tenants, below right.


[ Corlears Hook Parking Lot Drawing ]
[ Reclaiming the Depraved of Corlear's Hook, NY Times, 1870 ]