Overview

• City and Habitat leaders unveiled the street signs on Monday at East 6th Street between Avenues C and D in Manhattan’s East Village.
• The co-naming ties to Mascot Flats at 742 E. 6th St., a 19‑unit building rehabilitated in 1984 in what became the first Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project.
• Habitat for Humanity CEO Jonathan Reckford said Carter’s on-site work, including sleeping in a church basement during the effort, helped put the organization on the map.
• Reckford credited the Carters’ legacy with helping more than 62 million people experience safe, affordable housing worldwide.
• Carter led the Carter Work Project for roughly three decades, contributing to more than 4,400 homes built, renovated, or repaired across 14 countries; he died last year at age 100.