Bay View Houses Nominated to Registers of Historic Places

CANARSIE — THE STATE BOARD FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION HAS NOMINATED THE BAY VIEW HOUSES , along with 18 other properties and districts, to the State and National Registers of Historic Places.

A large public housing complex for middle-income tenants in Brooklyn’s Canarsie’s neighborhood, the Bay View Houses were built in 1955-56 under the New York City Housing Authority’s City IV program. This comprised the last phase of city-funded public housing before the Mitchell-Lama law of 1955 and similar legislation shifted the responsibility for middle-income housing construction away from city government onto private developers.

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