Marcy Houses


Marcy, or Marcy Projects, is a public housing complex built and operated by the New York City Housing Authority and located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and is bordered by Flushing, Marcy, Nostrand and Myrtle avenues. The complex was named after William L. Marcy, a lawyer, soldier, and statesman. Consisting of 27 six-story buildings on, it contains 1,705 apartments housing about 4,286 residents.

Development

The land Marcy is on was bought in 1945 by the City of New York; it had been the site of an old Dutch windmill. Homes and businesses were cleared for the construction of Marcy, as well as sections of Hopkins, Ellery, Floyd, and Stockton streets that went through where the complex now sits. Marcy was completed on January 19, 1949. In 1946, of the were set aside for a playground; this playground was reconstructed in 1989.
Marcy has taken steps to become more environmentally friendly; in 2006, it replaced all conventional water heaters with energy-saving, instantaneous water heaters. In October 2008, Marcy's neighborhood garden earned 3rd place at the 43rd Annual Garden and Greening Awards Ceremony, and its evergreen garden earned second place. On January 19, 2009, the 60th anniversary of the building's completion, Mayor Michael Bloomberg proclaimed this day as Marcy Houses Day.

Notable residents