Alma Rangel Gardens is an affordable housing community for low-income older adults in Manhattan, located at West 137th Street between Lenox and 5th Avenues. It offers 89 units of subsidized housing with social and recreational services designed to help residents age in place.
The community provides an apartment-based lifestyle for well, frail, and handicapped older adults. Forty-two of its apartments are designated for the Enriched Housing Program, which serves residents requiring special assistance. Food service is provided for those in the Enriched Housing Program, and staff members provide case management services and organize various social and recreational activities.
Common areas including lobbies, dining rooms, and gardens have been created with residents' comfort and well-being in mind, designed in cooperation with a prominent New York interior designer. The New York Foundation for Senior Citizens, which operates the community, received the Municipal Art Society Award for creating upbeat and positive housing set against tasteful and gracious surroundings for New York City's elderly.