Starrett City is a housing development in the Spring Creek section of East New York, in Brooklyn, New York City. It is located on a peninsula on the north shore of Jamaica Bay, bounded by Fresh Creek to the west and Hendrix Creek to the east. Starrett City contains both residential and commercial buildings. The residential portion of the property contains eight "sections" in a towers in the park layout. The complex also contains a community and recreation center, as well as two schools.
Starrett City, seen across Fresh Creek Basin
The treatment plant in Starrett City
Pennsylvania Avenue, Starrett City's major artery
Starrett City buildings viewed from Pennsylvania Avenue
Spring Creek, previously called Spring Creek Basin, is a neighborhood within the East New York section of Brooklyn in New York City. It roughly comprises the southern portions of East New York between Flatlands Avenue to the north, and Jamaica Bay and the Gateway National Recreation Area to the south, with the Brooklyn neighborhood of Canarsie to the west and the Queens neighborhood of Howard Beach to the east. It is named after Spring Creek, one of several creeks that formerly ran through the area and drained into Jamaica Bay.
Houses of the Nehemiah Spring Creek development under construction in 2008.
Forbell's Landing, late 19th Century
Flatlands Avenue and Schenck Avenue in 2011. The lot to the right has yet to be developed
Starrett City; Fresh Creek Basin is in the foreground