Butler Houses

The Butler Houses is a NYCHA housing project with 6 buildings each having 21 stories. It is located between East 169th to 171st Streets and also between Park and Webster Avenues in Morrisania, the Bronx.

Type: Residential area
Description: public housing development in the Bronx, New York
Also known as: “Borgia Butler Houses”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Yankee Stadium and Claremont Park.

Yankee Stadium

Stadium

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Yankee Stadium is a baseball stadium located in the Bronx, New York City. It is the home field of the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. The stadium opened in April 2009, replacing the original Yankee Stadium that operated from 1923 to 2008… Yankee Stadium is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Butler Houses.

Claremont Park

Park

Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Claremont Park is a park in the Morrisania section of the Bronx in New York City. The land on which the park sits was once part of the Morris family estate and was the site of the Zborowski Mansion.

Joker Stairs

Photo: Moviebuff1921, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The West 167th Street Stairs, colloquially known as the Joker Stairs and also as the Shakespeare Steps, are a step street connecting Shakespeare and Anderson avenues at West 167th Street in the Highbridge neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City. Joker Stairs is situated 1 mile west of Butler Houses.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Bronx and Morrisania.

South Bronx

Quarter

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The South Bronx is an area of the New York City borough of the Bronx. The area comprises neighborhoods in the southern part of the Bronx, such as Grand Concourse, Mott Haven, Melrose, and Port Morris.

Morrisania

Neighborhood

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Morrisania is a 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 163rd Street to the south, and Webster Avenue to the west.

Melrose

Neighborhood

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Melrose is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of the Bronx. It adjoins the business and onetime theater area known as The Hub.

Butler Houses

Category: administrative territorial entity
Location: Bronx, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.83602° or 40° 50′ 10″ north

Longitude

-73.90665° or 73° 54′ 24″ west

Elevation

30 feet (9 metres)

Open location code

87G8R3PV+C8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 222376956

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=residential

GeoNames ID

6332602

Wikidata ID

Q140306774

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