The Marcy Houses, or The Marcy Projects, is a public housing complex built and operated by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and located in Bedford–Stuyvesant and is bordered by Flushing, Marcy, Nostrand and Myrtle avenues.

[1][2][3] The complex was named after William L. Marcy (1786–1857), a lawyer, soldier, and statesman.

[1] The land Marcy is on was bought in 1945 by the City of New York; it had been the site of an old Dutch windmill.

[2][4] Homes and businesses (including two banks) were cleared for the construction of Marcy, as well as sections of Hopkins, Ellery, Floyd (now Martin Luther King Jr. Place), and Stockton streets that went through where the complex now sits.

[1][4] Marcy has taken steps to become more environmentally friendly; in 2006, it replaced all conventional water heaters with energy-saving, instantaneous water heaters.