Louis Heaton Pink Houses
public housing development in Brooklyn, New York
The Louis Heaton Pink Houses or Pink Houses are a housing project in New York City that were established in the East New York neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1959. It consists of 22 eight-storey buildings with 1,500 apartment units over a 31.1-acre expanse, bordered by Crescent Street, Linden Boulevard, Elderts Lane, and Stanley Avenue. It is owned and managed by New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).
Development
Construction of the Pink Houses began in the summer of 1957 and was designed by architects Aldoph Goldberg and Herbert Epstein. The development was completed on September 30, 1959. It was named after a former member of NYCHA, Louis Heaton Pink who was a pioneer of low and middle-income housing. The first eight families moving in March of that year. The project cost $21 million. The site is cut through by two streets, which form four superblocks with buildings on only 14% of the site. Each cluster of buildings contains its own playground maintained by the Parks Department.
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