Navy Green Supportive Housing Complex

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Contructed in 2010 and opened in 2012, Navy Green Supportive Housing Complex is permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless men and women with a mental illness and a history of substance abuse, and for low income working adults from the community

Originally located on this site was a US Navy facility built in the early 1940's to house the ballooning number of offending servicemen entering the US Navy. During the Second World War, the Brooklyn Navy Yard Brig, or Naval Prison, served in its intended role until the closure of the Navy Yard in 1966.

Passed into the ownership of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, the former brig was used as an alien detention center until 1984 when the capacity-strapped NYC Dept of Corrections purchased the facility for use as a minimum-security prison. Serving in this role until the opening of the Brooklyn MDC, the facility was shut down in 1994 and remained idle and under city ownership until 2001. Briefly used to house volunteer workers assisting with post-September 11th cleanup efforts, the brig was once again idled by 2003 and came under the ownership of the NYC Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) board.

Finding the aging facility to be unfit for conversion into housing, the HPD demolished the structure in the spring and summer of 2005 to clear the way for a planned 434-unit mixed residential and commercial property called Navy Green. While construction was scheduled to begin in 2008, the worldwide recession has delayed the project.