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Bay View Houses
Public housing development in Brooklyn, New York From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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, Shore and Rockaway Parkways.[4]
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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]
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In Progress To Be Converted Into RAD PACT Section 8 Management
The development is currently in the process of becoming converted into RAD PACT Section 8 Management where there will be a public-private partnership between NYCHA and private companies to manage the development in order to bring in the capital funding needed to revitalize and upgrade the development into better conditions. [10]
Notable residents
- John Brockington (born 1948), former NFL player[11]
- Steven Keats (1945–1994), actor [12]
- John Salley (born 1964), former NBA player and the first player to win an NBA championship on three different teams[11][13]
- Howard Schultz (born 1953), former CEO of Starbucks[14][13]
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