Bay View Houses

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]

Bay View Houses
Location in New York City
Coordinates: 40.634610°N 73.887920°W / 40.634610; -73.887920
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CityNew York City
BoroughBrooklyn
Area
  Total.053 sq mi (0.14 km2)
Population
  Total3,578 [2]
ZIP codes
11236
Area codes718, 347, 929, and 917
Websitemy.nycha.info/DevPortal/

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]

Notable residents

See also

References

  1. "Bay ViewHouses Area". Retrieved November 7, 2019.
  2. "Bay View Houses Population".
  3. "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.
  4. "By way of Canarsie". The Weekly Nabe. May 5, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  5. "Mayor to Inspect New Housing Project In Brooklyn for Middle Income Tenants". NY Times. September 4, 1955. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  6. 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. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  7. 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.
  8. "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.
  9. "Farms at NYCHA - Green City Force". Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  10. Sherman, Joel (October 25, 2008). "RAYS' OWNER HAS BROOKLYN IN BLOOD". New York Post. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  11. "Which NYC Housing Projects Have Produced the Most Famous People?Bayview Houses". Complex. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  12. "Howard Schultz says he grew up in a poor, rough place. Those who lived there called it the 'country club of projects.'". Washington Post. March 13, 2019.
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