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Starrett City is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 75th Precinct, [3] though primary security is assumed by its own private security force, called the Spring Creek Towers Department of Public Safety. The Spring Creek Towers security force was created because, when Starrett City opened in the 1970s, the 75th Precinct had one of ...
[5] [6] [11] [19] [20] West of the mall across Hendrix Creek is Starrett City (now known as Spring Creek Towers), accessible via the Belt Parkway to the south, or Flatlands Avenue to the north. [3] Spring Creek Educational Campus, which houses two New York City high schools, is also located north at Flatlands Avenue and Elton Street. [21]
Starrett City Associates is a group of investors, led by Disque Deane, that owned the Starrett City housing complex in Brooklyn, New York City until 2008. The firm is best known for unsuccessfully defending a landmark civil rights lawsuit that concerned "reverse discrimination" and racial quotas in the housing complex, and for controversy during the sale of the development in the mid-2000s.
Spring Creek, previously called Spring Creek Basin, is a neighborhood within the East New York section of Brooklyn in New York City.It roughly comprises the southern portions of East New York between Flatlands Avenue to the north, and Jamaica Bay and the Gateway National Recreation Area to the south, with the Brooklyn neighborhood of Canarsie to the west and the Queens neighborhood of Howard ...
Shirley Chisholm State Park is a 407-acre (1.65 km 2) state park in southeastern Brooklyn, New York City. It is bound by Belt Parkway and Spring Creek Park to the north and Jamaica Bay to the south, situated atop the former Pennsylvania Avenue and Fountain Avenue Landfills. The first sections of the park opened in 2019.
Canarsie (/ k ə ˈ n ɑːr s i / kə-NAR-see) is a mostly residential neighborhood in the southeastern portion of Brooklyn, New York City.Canarsie is bordered on the east by Fresh Creek Basin, East 108th Street, and Louisiana Avenue; on the north by Linden Boulevard; on the west by Ralph Avenue; on the southwest by Paerdegat Basin; and on the south by Jamaica Bay.
The Christian Cultural Center (CCC) is a non-denominational Christian megachurch located in the Starrett City section of Brooklyn, New York City, with a satellite campus in Smithtown on Long Island. It is the largest Evangelical church in New York City.
Starrett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Starrett (1903–1986), American actor; Helen Ekin Starrett (1840–1920), American educator, author, suffragette; Jack Starrett (1936–1989), American actor and film director; Keith Starrett (born 1951), United States federal judge; Laroy S. Starrett (1836–1922 ...