The Marcy Houses, or The Marcy Projects, is a public housing complex built and operated by the

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(NYCHA) and located in Bedford–Stuyvesant and is bordered by

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, Marcy, Nostrand and Myrtle avenues. The complex was named after

William L. Marcy William Learned Marcy (December 12, 1786July 4, 1857) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as U.S. Senator, the eleventh Governor of New York, U.S. Secretary of War and the twenty-first U.S. Secretary of State. In the la ...

(1786–1857), a lawyer, soldier, and statesman. Consisting of 27 six-story buildings on , it contains 1,705 apartments housing about 4,286 residents (average of 2.5 people to an apartment).

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 (including two banks) were cleared for the construction of Marcy, as well as sections of Hopkins, Ellery, Floyd (now Martin Luther King Jr. Place), 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

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; in 2006, it replaced all conventional

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s 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

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garden earned second place. On January 19, 2009, the 60th anniversary of the building's completion,

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proclaimed the day Marcy Houses Day.

Notable people

Jay-Z Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z, is an American Rapping, rapper, businessman, and record executive. Rooted in East Coast hip-hop, he was named Billboard and Vibe's 50 Greatest Rappers of All Time, the ...

(born 1969), musician *

Jaz-O Jonathan Allen Burks Sr. (born October 4, 1964), better known by his stage name Jaz-O (formerly The Jaz and Big Jaz), is an American rapper and record producer. Active in the late 1980s through the 1990s, he became known in retrospect as the men ...

(born 1964), musician *

Memphis Bleek Malik Deshawn Cox (born June 23, 1978), known by his stage name Memphis Bleek, is an American rapper. He is best known for his affiliation with fellow New York City-based rapper Jay-Z, with Cox often described as his hype man and protégé. Cox s ...

(born 1978), musician

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*{{cite web, url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/html/developments/bklynmarcy.shtml, title=NYCHA Housing Developments - Marcy Houses, work=nyc.gov, publisher=City of New York, accessdate=2009-01-01, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111053258/http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/html/developments/bklynmarcy.shtml, archive-date=January 11, 2009, url-status=dead}

Public housing in Brooklyn Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Residential buildings completed in 1949 Residential buildings in Brooklyn

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