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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 ...
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 ...
[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.
Starrett City (formally Spring Creek Towers), Brooklyn, New York Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.
Thompson–Starrett Co. was an American construction contracting and engineering firm based in New York City that operated from 1899 until 1968. During the company's first 30 years, it was a pioneer in the construction of skyscrapers and one of the first companies to develop a national practice involving large-scale construction projects.
In 1995, the company was renamed Starrett Corporation. [4] In June 1997, Jacob Frydman, attempted to purchase the company for $84 million, $12.25 per share, after reaching an agreement with brothers Paul Milstein and Seymour Milstein who owned 33% of Starrett's shares and president Henry Benach who owned 19% of Starrett's shares.
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 ...