Starrett City
| Starrett City Spring Creek Towers |
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Starrett City, seen across Fresh Creek Basin
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Spring Creek Towers 
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| Coordinates: 40°38′52″N 73°52′54″W / 40.647880°N 73.881687°WCoordinates: 40°38′52″N 73°52′54″W / 40.647880°N 73.881687°W | |
| Locale | Spring Creek, Brooklyn, New York |
| ZIP codes | 11239 |
Starrett City (informally and colloquially known as the Spring Creek Towers) is a housing development in the Spring Creek (East New York) section of Brooklyn, New York City. It opened in 1974, and assumed the name of Spring Creek Towers in 2002, though it is still popularly known as Starrett City. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 5. Starrett City is patrolled by the NYPD's 75th Precinct as well as by a private police force.
The Spring Creek Towers site (also known as Starrett City) spanned over 153 acres (0.62 km2) before being subdivided in 2009 as part of a refinancing. The housing development contains 5,881 apartment units in 46 buildings, and is said to be the largest federally assisted rental property in the United States. The residential site also includes eight parking garages, a community center, and a number of parcels of undeveloped land were separated out from the residential site as part of the refinancing.
The residential portion of the property has eight "sections" each including several buildings, its own field, recreational area (jungle gym, park, handball court, basketball court) and a parking garage for residents in that section. These sections are Ardsley, Bethel, Croton, Delmar, Elmira, Freeport, Geneva, and Hornell, which are each named after municipalities in New York State. Each building has between 11 and 20 floors, with eight apartments on most floors. All of the apartment buildings have a street address as well as a building name consisting of one letter from A-H, and one number from 1-8. In this case, A5 would refer to the fifth building of Ardsley Loop.
Starrett City also has its own boxing gym, Starrett City Boxing, on Hornell Loop. It is home to many World Champion boxers, including Zab Judah, Shannon Briggs, Dmitriy Salita, Luis Collazo, and Will Rosinsky.
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