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Starrett City (also known as the Spring Creek Towers) is a housing development in the Spring Creek section of East New York in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.It is located on a peninsula on the north shore of Jamaica Bay, bounded by Fresh Creek and Canarsie to the west and Hendrix Creek to the east.
Starrett City was constructed from 1972 to 1975, as part of the Fresh Creek Urban Renewal Act to develop the area now known as Spring Creek, Brooklyn. [1] [2] At the time it was built, Starrett City was the largest housing development in the nation, [3] and remains the largest federally subsidized apartment complex.
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 ...
Formerly terminating at Erskine Street near the Brooklyn Developmental Center, the B13, B83, and Q8 were extended to a new bus terminal area at the west end of Gateway Center North in August 2014. The B84, meanwhile, was created in June 2013 to serve the Spring Creek neighborhood. [7] [8] [22] [23]
The Brooklyn Tower in Downtown Brooklyn. At a height of 1,066 ft (325 m), it has been the tallest building in Brooklyn since October 2021. Brooklyn, the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, contains over 50 high-rises that stand taller than 350 feet (107 m). The Brooklyn Tower, a condominium and rental tower in the Downtown neighborhood of the borough, is Brooklyn's tallest building ...
the location of the 1991 film, Straight Out of Brooklyn: Roosevelt Houses: Bedford-Stuyvesant: 6 14, 15 and 16 762 September 30, 1964: Rutland Towers: East Flatbush: 1 6 61 May 31, 1977: Saratoga Square: Bedford-Stuyvesant: 2 12 and 13 251 November 30, 1980: Seth Low Houses: Brownsville: 4 17 and 18 536 December 31, 1967: Sheepshead Bay Houses ...
Looking at the Spring Creek Depot from Flatlands Avenue. The Spring Creek Depot is located on Flatlands Avenue east of Crescent Street in Brooklyn's East New York neighborhood [ 147 ] [ 148 ] ( 40°39′42″N 73°51′55″W / 40.661628°N 73.865156°W / 40.661628; -73.865156 ( Spring Creek Depot ) ), adjacent to the Brooklyn ...
Various tests of the Fountain Avenue area and landfills were conducted in 1985 and 1986. [3]A December 4, 1998 press announcement by Congressman Vito Fossella stated that Fossella "laid out a compelling argument for deauthorizing the property as part of Gateway National Recreation Area and restoring it as a temporary waste disposal site only for trash generated in Brooklyn".