Bay View Houses | |
|---|---|
 Location in New York City | |
| Coordinates: 40°38′05″N 73°53′17″W / 40.634610°N 73.887920°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| City | New York City |
| Borough | Brooklyn |
| Area | |
| • Total | .053 sq mi (0.14 km2) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 3,578 [1] |
| ZIP codes | 11236 |
| Area codes | 718, 347, 929, and 917 |
| Website | my |
The Bay View Houses is a housing project of the New York City Housing Authority in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn. It has twenty-three, 8-story buildings with 1,609 apartments.[3] The 34.02-acre complex is bordered by Seaview Avenue, East 102nd Street, and Rockaway Parkway.[4]
Development
Construction on the Bay View Houses began in November 1954[3] and was completed on June 7, 1956.[4] It was designed for middle-income families to keep these residents from moving to the suburbs.[5] The Bayview Houses was mostly inhabited by low- to middle-income working class New Yorkers.[6]
The development was designed in the superblock style which bounds the property with local roads and without roads crossing. The buildings take up roughly 14% of the site to ensure green space, typical of the time. This design ignores the surrounding environment, particularly the view of Jamaica Bay from the buildings.[7][8] Located in the center of the development is the Bay View Houses Farm, managed by East New York Farms.[9]
In Progress To Be Converted Into RAD PACT Section 8 Management
The development is currently in the process of becoming converted into RAD PACT Section 8 Management where there will be a Public-private partnership between NYCHA and private companies to manage the development in order to bring in the capital funding needed to revitalize and upgrade the development into better conditions. [10]
Notable residents
- John Brockington (born 1948), former NFL player[11]
- Steven Keats (1945–1994), actor [12]
- John Salley (born 1964), former NBA player and the first player to win an NBA championship on three different teams[11][13]
- Howard Schultz (born 1953), former CEO of Starbucks[14][13]
See also
References
- ^ "Bay View Houses Population".
- ^ "Bay ViewHouses Area". Retrieved November 7, 2019.
- ^ a b "Housing Authority To OK Low Bid for Canarsie Project" (PDF). Brooklyn Daily Eagle. February 10, 1954. p. 6. Retrieved January 28, 2018 – via Fultonhistory.com.
- ^ a b "By way of Canarsie". The Weekly Nabe. May 5, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ^ "Mayor to Inspect New Housing Project In Brooklyn for Middle Income Tenants". NY Times. September 4, 1955. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
- ^ Fisher, Marc. "Howard Schultz says he grew up in a poor, rough place. Those who lived there called it the 'country club of projects.'". Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 14, 2019. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
- ^ Bellamy, A. A. (1958). "Housing in Large Cities in the U.S.A.: A Short Review with a Note on Some Implications for High Density Redevelopment in Britain". The Town Planning Review. 29 (3): 179–197. doi:10.3828/tpr.29.3.g77rp727n7123gq3. ISSN 0041-0020. JSTOR 40101541.
- ^ "WAGNER INSPECTS BAY VIEW HOUSES; He Is Impressed by First Unit of Brooklyn Non-Subsidy, Middle-Income Project". NY Times. September 8, 1955. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
- ^ "Farms at NYCHA - Green City Force". Retrieved October 2, 2019.
- ^ https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/66a6bbe303db433b978370b1191046f7/
- ^ a b Sherman, Joel (October 25, 2008). "RAYS' OWNER HAS BROOKLYN IN BLOOD". New York Post. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
- ^ Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
- ^ a b Kimble, Julian (September 26, 2013). "Which NYC Housing Projects Have Produced the Most Famous People?". Complex. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
- ^ Fisher, Marc (March 13, 2019). "Howard Schultz says he grew up in a poor, rough place. Those who lived there called it the 'country club of projects.'". Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 14, 2019.
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