| Bay View Houses | |
| Settlement Type: | NYCHA property |
| Coordinates: | 40.6346°N -73.8879°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Type2: | City |
| Subdivision Type3: | Borough |
| Subdivision Name1: | New York |
| Subdivision Name2: | New York City |
| Subdivision Name3: | Brooklyn |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | .053 |
| Population Total: | 3,578 [2] |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
| Postal Code: | 11236 |
| Area Codes: | 718, 347, 929, and 917 |
| Blank Name: | Average household income |
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 and was completed on June 7, 1956. 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]