Mott Haven is a residential neighborhood geographically located in the southwest Bronx. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are: East 149th Street to the north, the Bruckner Expressway to the east, the Major Deegan Expressway to the south, and the Harlem River to the west. East 138th Street is the primary thoroughfare through Mott Haven. The local subway is the 6 line, operating along East 138th Street. Mott Haven is dominated by public housing complexes of various types. There is a high concentration of older tenement buildings between these developments. Newly constructed subsidized attached multi-unit rowhouses and apartment buildings have been constructed on most vacant lots in the area.
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