Penn South

This article is about the housing development near New York Penn Station. For the proposed expansion of Penn Station, see Gateway Program (Northeast Corridor).

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The Penn South cooperative as seen from the Empire State Building

Penn South, officially known as Mutual Redevelopment Houses and formerly Penn Station South, is a limited-equity[1] housing cooperative development located between Eighth and Ninth Avenues and West 23rd and 29th Streets, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The complex has 2,820 units in ten 22-story buildings. Penn South is so named because of its location southwest of New York Penn Station.

  1. ^ "About" on the Penn South website. Accessed:2011-03-10 Archived December 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine