Day 1270

These two 19-story towers are the tallest of the eleven buildings in the Arverne View apartment complex. Originally called Ocean Village when it was erected in the 1970s, this affordable housing development was one of the very few construction projects completed on the vast and vacant urban renewal lands of Arverne and Edgemere prior to 2001. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the new owners of Ocean Village began a full renovation of the troubled, run-down complex — hence the much cheerier facades — and renamed the place Arverne View.