Bay View Houses | |
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Coordinates: 40°38′05″N 73°53′17″W / 40.634610°N 73.887920°W | |
Country | United States |
State | New York |
City | New York City |
Borough | Brooklyn |
Area | |
• Total | .053 sq mi (0.14 km2) |
Population | |
• Total | 3,578 [1] |
ZIP codes | 11236 |
Area codes | 718, 347, 929, and 917 |
Website | my |
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]
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]
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]