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Prospect Plaza Houses was a notorious public housing project built in the 1950s in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of New York in the borough of Brooklyn. It centered around St. Marks Avenue in the north, Saratoga Avenue on the east, Park Place in the south and Howard Avenue on the west.

The population was mostly White at the time of occupation. Many Afro-Americans arrived in the 1960s and oversaw the White flight of the original tenants. Like Cabrini-Green in Chicago, Prospect Plaza's crime rate had risen sharply with murder, prostitution, rape and robbery being committed almost every day. In the early 2000s a fire glazed the housing development and all of the residents were moved to other projects.

The New York City Housing Authority is planning to rehabilitate the site and convert the buildings to condominiums.

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• Condominums at Prospect Plaza [1]