Breukelen Houses
Coordinates: 40°39′04″N 73°53′38″W / 40.651°N 73.894°W
Breukelen Houses (pronounced brook-line), also known as Breukelen or Brookline Projects, is a large housing complex maintained in Canarsie, Brooklyn, by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).
Its main office is located at 618 East 108th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11236. It is bounded by Flatlands Avenue, East 103rd Street, Williams Avenue and Stanley Avenue. The community sits on 64.98 acres (26.30 ha) and consists of 1,595 apartment units inside 30 structures, all of which are either three or seven stories high. As of March 2008 the population was estimated to be 4,038.The development was completed October 31, 1952.
Breukelen gets its name from the Dutch in 1683, when present-day Brooklyn was known as Breukelen. It later changed to Brockland, Brocklin, Brookline, and finally Brooklyn. The housing project borders the community of Flatlands to the southeast, which the Dutch originally called Nieuw Amersfoort. It, along with the towns of New Lots, Flatbush, and Gravesend, were annexed by the city of Brooklyn between 1886 and 1896.
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