Construction of the Houses led to the end of [[Manhattan Street]], a one-block-long street that previously served as a shortcut between East Third and East Houston Streets and ran along the west side of Public School 188.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-10-06 |title=The remains of two streets no longer on the map |language=en |url=https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/the-remains-of-two-streets-no-longer-on-the-map/ |work=Ephemeral New York |access-date=2022-03-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4e371240-2176-0132-3ffc-58d385a7b928 |title=(cartographic) Plate 26, Part of Section 2: [Bounded by Columbia Street, Avenue D, E. 8th Street, (East River Piers) Lewis Street, E. 4th Street, Tompkins Street and Stanton Street] (1930) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |access-date=2025-11-30 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e9564ae0-4683-0132-5b7d-58d385a7bbd0 |title=(cartographic) Plate 26, Part of Section 2: [Bounded by Columbia Street, Avenue D, (Jacob Riis Houses) E. 6th Street, (East River Park, East River) Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive and (Baruch Houses) E. Houston Street.] (1955) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |access-date=2025-11-30 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref> Manhattan Street, along with the segments of other streets that previously ran through the site, were eliminated from the city map in 1944.<ref name=”NYT-1944-11-14″>{{cite news |date=1944-11-14 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1944/11/14/archives/plans-are-filed-for-wald-housing-sixteen-units-containing-more-than.html |title=Plans Are Filed for Wald Housing |work=The New York Times |access-date=2025-11-30}}</ref> Public School 188 was excluded from the site of the housing complex.<ref name=”NYCHA Wald” /><ref name=”NYT-1944-11-14″ />
Construction of the Houses led to the end of [[Manhattan Street]], a one-block-long street that previously served as a shortcut between East Third and East Houston Streets and ran along the west side of Public School 188.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-10-06 |title=The remains of two streets no longer on the map |language=en |url=https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/the-remains-of-two-streets-no-longer-on-the-map/ |work=Ephemeral New York |access-date=2022-03-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4e371240-2176-0132-3ffc-58d385a7b928 |title=(cartographic) Plate 26, Part of Section 2: [Bounded by Columbia Street, Avenue D, E. 8th Street, (East River Piers) Lewis Street, E. 4th Street, Tompkins Street and Stanton Street] (1930) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |access-date=2025-11-30 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e9564ae0-4683-0132-5b7d-58d385a7bbd0 |title=(cartographic) Plate 26, Part of Section 2: [Bounded by Columbia Street, Avenue D, (Jacob Riis Houses) E. 6th Street, (East River Park, East River) Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive and (Baruch Houses) E. Houston Street.] (1955) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |access-date=2025-11-30 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref> Manhattan Street, along with the segments of other streets that previously ran through the site, were eliminated from the city map in 1944.<ref name=”NYT-1944-11-14″>{{cite news |date=1944-11-14 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1944/11/14/archives/plans-are-filed-for-wald-housing-sixteen-units-containing-more-than.html |title=Plans Are Filed for Wald Housing |work=The New York Times |access-date=2025-11-30}}</ref> Public School 188 was excluded from the site of the housing complex.<ref name=”NYCHA Wald” /><ref name=”NYT-1944-11-14″ />
