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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]
East New York: 5 6 462 November 30, 1973: Van Dyke Houses: Brownsville: 22 3 and 14 1,602 May 31, 1955: the location of the 2010 film, Brooklyn's Finest: Vandalia Av. Houses: East New York: 2 10 289 May 31, 1983: Vernon Houses: Bedford-Stuyvesant: Walt Whitman Houses: Fort Greene: 15 6 and 13 1,636 February 24, 1944: Weeksville Gardens: Crown ...
Kingsborough Houses-Kingsborough Extension, also known as Kingsborough Houses, is a 15.97-acre housing project in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. It is bordered by Ralph and Rochester Avenues, and Pacific and Bergen Streets. The project consists of 16, six-story buildings with 1,148 apartment units.
Downtown Brooklyn. Bridge Plaza/RAMBO; DUMBO. Fulton Ferry; Fort Greene; Prospect Heights. Pacific Park/Atlantic Yards; Vinegar Hill; South Brooklyn – takes its name from the geographical position of the original town of Brooklyn, which today includes the neighborhoods listed above under the heading "northwestern Brooklyn." It is not located ...
With 2702 units, it is the largest Mitchell-Lama co-op in Brooklyn. [2] [3] According to a 2014 article in The New Republic, Lindsay Park is the most ethnically diverse apartment complex in the United States, with an ethnic makeup that is 33.1 percent white, 31.1 percent East Asian, 30.3 percent Hispanic, and 4.3 percent African American. [4]
Bay Parkway was known as 22nd Avenue until the 1930s, when the name was changed to facilitate large-scale apartment-type residential development.Its renaming as a parkway was first proposed in the state legislature in 1892, along with Bay Ridge Parkway, and Fort Hamilton Parkway, placing the road under the jurisdiction of the Brooklyn Parks Department. [4]
Brevoort Houses, or Brevoort Projects, are a housing project located in the Bedford-Stuyvestant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The complex is made up of 13 seven-story buildings with 896 apartments. The complex sits on 17.26-acres and construction was completed on August 31, 1955. It is owned and managed by New York City Housing Authority. [3]
Ocean Parkway is a boulevard in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it was built between 1874 and 1876.Ocean Parkway runs roughly 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north to south from the intersection with Prospect Park (Machate) Circle, at the southwestern corner of Prospect Park, to the Atlantic Ocean waterfront at Brighton Beach.