page_title: Farragut Houses
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Farragut Houses / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: English: Sands and Gold street (bus stop)
context_page_description: The Farragut Houses is a public housing project located in the downtown neighborhood of northwestern Brooklyn, New York City, bordering the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Farragut Houses is a property of New York City Housing Authority. The houses contain 3,272 residents who reside in ten buildings that are each 13 to 14 stories high.
context_section_description: The Farragut Houses are served by the New York City Subway, with the F and <F>​ trains stopping at York Street 0.2 miles (0.32 km) away and the A and ​C trains stopping at High Street. The nearby Jay Street–MetroTech complex is served by the A, ​C​, F, <F>​​, N, R, and ​W trains.
  The housing project is also served by four bus routes: the B57, B62, B67, and B69, all of which run right through the housing project. All of these routes also go to downtown Brooklyn and connect with the Jay Street complex.
  In contrast to other places, subway service to the Farragut Houses area has declined over the decades. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the neighborhood was served by elevated lines and trolleys.  The first elevated railway, the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, came to downtown Brooklyn in 1885 and ran only a few blocks away. The N, R, and ​W trains' station at Lawrence Street (now Jay Street–MetroTech) opened on June 11, 1924. High Street opened in June 24, 1933, and York Street on April 9, 1936. A trolley ran on Sands, Jay, and Hudson Streets, very close to the site of Farragut Houses, although the last trolley cars were retired on March 4, 1951, the same year the Farragut Houses opened, and the last trolley bus ran on Flushing Avenue to High Street on July 27, 1960. As late as 1951 the Myrtle Avenue El still existed, stopping at Navy Street and Myrtle Avenue, about three blocks from the current site of the Farragut Houses, as it had since the 1880s.
caption: Bus stop at Gold and Sands Streets
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