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17-710: Breukelen Houses ( / ˈ b r ʊ k l aɪ n / BRUUK -lyne ), 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

34-435: A buitenplaats was the mansion, a stately building in which the owner and his family were housed. Around it was a garden decorated with fountains and statues. Often there were also an orangerie with exotic plants, an aviary or a grotto with shells. The buitenplaats was often connected to a farm or a forest . During the 19th century buitenplaatsen became outmoded, and often they were also too expensive to use exclusively in

51-749: A radio show in 2007 that public housing has to pay for itself. With the NYCHA’s perpetual debt and with pressures from private, city, state, and federal departments, privatization may in fact be in Breukelen’s future. In 2014, the Breukelen Houses topped the list of Brooklyn properties, and third-highest in the city in need of repair due to NYCHA's capital needs. The property had 897 non-current work orders, 44 outstanding Department of Buildings violations, and six outstanding Environmental Control Board violations. Breukelen Breukelen's history dates back to

68-609: A summer residence for rich townspeople in the Netherlands . During the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century, many traders and city administrators in Dutch towns became very wealthy. Many of them bought country estates, at first mainly to collect rents, however soon mansions started to be built there, which were used only during the summer. Buitenplaatsen or buitenhuizen could be found in picturesque regions which were easily accessible from

85-402: Is located. Founded in 1946, Nyenrode is a university that offers business and finance-related higher education. The former municipality of Breukelen consisted of the following villages: Breukelen, Kockengen , and Nieuwer-Ter-Aa . This Utrecht location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Buitenplaats A buitenplaats (literally "outside place") was

102-462: The 7th century , when it was a village named Attingahem. Around the year 720, the first wooden church was built in the village by Saint Boniface . In the 8th century , a Frisian nobleman named Atte established a settlement there, constructing a fortified farm named the Breukelerhof. During the 17th century, many wealthy Amsterdam merchant families built their mansions along the river Vecht. In

119-582: The Disaster Year (1672) the village and its vicinity were severely damaged by warfare, if not looted and burned by the French. On 1 January 2011, Breukelen merged with Loenen and Maarssen to form Stichtse Vecht . The New York City borough of Brooklyn in the United States is named after Breukelen (see History of Brooklyn ). The town is most well known for the being where Nyenrode Business University

136-447: The population was estimated to be 4,038. The Breukelen Houses gets its name from the Dutch in 1683, when present-day Brooklyn was known as Breukelen (named after the Dutch town of Breukelen ). It later changed to Brockland, Brocklin, Brookline, and finally Brooklyn . The housing project borders the community of Flatlands to the southeast. In the aftermath of World War II , there was a shortage of housing in Canarsie . Planning for

153-740: The Breukelen Community Center opened its doors to the homeless as one of nine winter emergency “warming spots” in the city. Officials of the NYCHA claim their woes are due to “chronic federal under-funding”. As a result, in recent years many residents within the Breukelen community have expressed fears of mass privatization and pending rent hikes. As of June 2007 the NYCHA held a deficit of over $ 200 million with little to no fiscal help from Albany (state capital) or Washington in sight. Additionally,

170-523: The Breukelen development started in 1949. In August 1951, work started and was completed on October 31, 1952. In 1980, the development received $ 21.6 million from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to modernize its heating systems, external improvements, and apartments. In 2001 the NYCHA authorized $ 4.5 million in upgrades to Breukelen Houses. Residents enjoyed new fencing, walkways, shrubbery , playgrounds, and updated lighting. In February 2007

187-637: The NYCHA has lost $ 999 million between 2001 and 2008. In spite of it financial insufficiency, the NYCHA is not going to privatize housing. Instead they're selling surplus NYCHA land to the city's housing agency to develop affordable housing. They’ve also made staff and expense cuts and have more impending employee cutbacks in the works. Nevertheless, Julia Vitullo-Martin purports that a potential buyer offered up $ 1.3 billion for an area of public housing in East New York that might encompass some or all of Breukelen Houses. Furthermore, Mayor Bloomberg stated on

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204-487: The buitenhuizen along the Vecht river; "Both sides of the way are lined with the country-houses and gardens of opulent citizens, as fine as gilt statues and clipped hedges can make them. Their number is quite astonishing: from Amsterdam to Utrecht, full thirty miles, we beheld no other objects than endless avenues and stiff parterres scrawled and flourished in patterns like the embroidery of an old maid’s work-bag." The core of

221-502: The owner's home in town, and they were near a clean water source. Most wealthy families kept their children in buitenhuizen during the summer to flee the putrid canals of the cities and the accompanying onset of cholera and other diseases. Though most buitenhuizen have been demolished, examples are still in existence along the river Vecht , the river Amstel , the Spaarne in Kennemerland ,

238-611: The river Vliet and in Wassenaar . Some still exist near former lakes (now polders ) like the Watergraafsmeer and Beemster , which were popular too. In the 19th century with improvements in water management, new regions came into fashion, such as the Utrecht Hill Ridge ( Utrechtse Heuvelrug ) and the area around Arnhem . Buitenplaatsen are often mistaken for castles; however, a castle usually dates from medieval times and thus

255-511: The summer. In some regions buitenplaatsen disappeared altogether, in other regions, such as Vecht and Kennemerland they still exist. Most were torn down to make way for housing developments, infrastructural changes (most of the Wijkermeer is under the North Sea Canal ), and apartment buildings. Even in the case of Hofwijck, whose inhabitants were so notable that the house is a museum today,

272-543: The summer. The wealthy owners then returned in the autumn to their residences in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Leiden, The Hague, Haarlem, Dordrecht, and other prominent cities. By the end of the 18th century these places were lined up side by side along the banks of the more prominent rivers. William Thomas Beckford , who published an account of his letters back home from his Grand Tour , traveled by trekschuit from Amsterdam to Utrecht and wrote home on July 2, 1780, with this to say about

289-480: Was usually founded and owned by nobles , while buitenplaatsen were primarily built and owned by the newly rich bourgeoisie during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Many buitenhuizen are built on top of the ruins of earlier castles that were destroyed during the Dutch revolt . The owners adopted the castle name, giving themselves a hint of nobility. Like early English country houses , buitenhuizen were only used during

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