Infamous Housing Projects

[blackmarket]

I worked a few murder cases in Marcy houses, but they aint hardly the worst projects in Brooklyn, or even Bed Sty for that matter. Tompkins houses and Louis Armstrong houses are worse than Marcy in Bed Sty. In Brooklyn you wanna talk about the worst, then you gotta talk about The Pink Houses or Cypress in East New York, or any project in Brownsville. Cops have to go 4 deep in some of those houses. Marcy is just infamous cause Jay-Z raps about it.

In Queens the same thing, although they are bad Queensbridge is not really infamous. A lot of rappers come from there so it gets talked about. Infamous in Queens would be 40 Projects and Baisley projects. Supreme, Prince and the Supreme team ran their drug and murder empire out of there.

^^^This here, especially The 40s and The Pink Houses, Sethlow in the Ville

Honorable mention-edenwald projects in the bx

Used to have a shorty in there and there was always some shit goin down up top. Mightve been the worst jects in The BX

Don't forget Brevoit houses in bed stuy

I dunno I didnt frequent a lot but Breevoort didnt seem that bad - the kinda projects anybody could just walk up in without a problem.

Ahh, the crack era. I wonder what most of these spots are like now, last time I was home I was outside of Soundview and it looked more like a retirement community. Damn, and why do I miss the bad ol days of NYC

 

[DragonXJC]

Had a brazilian/PR jumpoff that lived in Marcy Projects.

She has been mugged twice since I known her, in her own building.

 

[royal]

Those outside walkways and stair ways used to be open but mofokrs kept getting thrown off so they fenced them in.

that's crazy. i guess its another topic, but does these projects say anything about blacks or were these conditions designed for blacks to fall, nevermind....i spoke on the damage done by Atlanta closing down all the projects....i feel like if ngz want to be animals let them be animals in their caged environment...but many see it differently....by closing down the projects (and i see its not just an Atlanta thing many other cities are and have done it) it has fkd up areas that were once middle class black areas.

Lmao , this shit looks like a prison without the gates and barbed wire.

before i posted i was looking for some prison pics to go with it, lol. I'm at work, so i just did a quick google prison pics search and mostly found the inside of jail pics, but your right, that's exactly what that bitch looks like.

 

[fwillia]

All of these NY dudes in this thread, and not a single mention of LG.

Interesting.

 

[quickflip]

Thats funny cuz when I was down in the ATL the Courts and Thomasville were 2 main places I used to cop from.
The largest dimes in history outside of Mexico

Weed man had reggie but it smoked so good...not to mention I was a broke ass 18 year old

 

[kdogg3270]

Benning Terrace is a public housing project of 274 apartments and townhouses in southeast Washington, D.C. located east of the Anacostia River in the Benning Ridge neighborhood.[1] It was formerly known as "Simple City."

i grew up just minutes away from this place. Near the lincoln hgts. projects.

 

[Uncle John]

Them niggas out in Edgemere, Averne and Redfern keep it gully as fuck!

There is slim to no chance of getting out of Rockaway without a car. Waiting for bus or train was not an option.

 

[bborn]

peace

Edenwald was off the fucking meters with all types of ratchet shit back in the 80' and early 90's but I still never found it to be that thrill. I used hang on the South side of Edenwald damn near everyday back in 1986. The the North side in the mid to late 90's I'd go through often to chop it up my niggas. There's a lot of drugs, child neglect and the occasional gun clapping. I would rate it as being so dangerous however. Then again I'm built for that shit so others may think differently.

Grew up going to see family in there since the 70s, playing & swinging on them lil chained fence barriers.
Passed through Edenwald day last year
'Horseshoe' stand up.

No Redhook, Getty Sq or any of them shits in Y.O.? Trenton (the Bricks), Nwk (BrickCity), Central & South Jersey to Camden & the surrounding forgotten areas that look & feel like a bomb was dropped there?
Certain parts of MtVernon down the block from the Bx even though theyre residential have some ole other shit going on.


Connecticut had a bunch of town house pjs that were & are still a mess through Waterbury, Danbury, Bport, The Elm/New Haven (Ashman St was their only high rise that got torn down about 20 yrs ago) not even to mention the Heartbeat/Hartford ones. the crack/wet is heavy in the air (or literally in chicks' hair as whole families be fucked up in the game) & have seen kats get popped & chicks get buck__, leaking @ functions

These pjs aint got shit on India, certain Chinatowns (from China to NY) and other truly down trodden areas like them favelas fam mentioned where there are their own rules.

 

[blackmarket]

All of these NY dudes in this thread, and not a single mention of LG.

Interesting.

Dude has a point cant forget Lafayette.
I saw somebody else mention Redfern also , I dont know how that cesspool slipped my mind. Far Rock and Brownsville been in an ongoing knife fight since the '80s for the crown of worst hood in NY

 

[vandamation]

peace



Grew up going to see family in there since the 70s, playing & swinging on them lil chained fence barriers.
Passed through Edenwald day last year
'Horseshoe' stand up.

No Redhook, Getty Sq or any of them shits in Y.O.? Trenton (the Bricks), Nwk (BrickCity), Central & South Jersey to Camden & the surrounding forgotten areas that look & feel like a bomb was dropped there?
Certain parts of MtVernon down the block from the Bx even though theyre residential have some ole other shit going on.


Connecticut had a bunch of town house pjs that were & are still a mess through Waterbury, Danbury, Bport, The Elm/New Haven (Ashman St was their only high rise that got torn down about 20 yrs ago) not even to mention the Heartbeat/Hartford ones. the crack/wet is heavy in the air (or literally in chicks' hair as whole families be fucked up in the game) & have seen kats get popped & chicks get buck__, leaking @ functions

These pjs aint got shit on India, certain Chinatowns (from China to NY) and other truly down trodden areas like them favelas fam mentioned where there are their own rules.

I don't know if it's still around... but there's a PJs in Waterbury I think they're called named Long Hill... These dreads used to run it out there... Them niggas had some FIRE weed up there...

 

[bigirl]

Geez I been to all of them at one time or another but never lived in any but lived few blocks away from Marcy houses for 4 or 5 years. Also lived right by Ingersoll and Walt Whitman houses for a LONG time. Why the name of the other projects behind them is slipping me I dont know maybe because I putting mental block on NY ;-)

 

[Djmarkxr7]

All of these NY dudes in this thread, and not a single mention of LG.

Interesting.

Dude has a point cant forget Lafayette.
I saw somebody else mention Redfern also , I dont know how that cesspool slipped my mind. Far Rock and Brownsville been in an ongoing knife fight since the '80s for the crown of worst hood in NY

I came back in to mention Red Hook, but bborn took care of that, and also Albany Projects & Tilden as well!

 

[bigirl]

you can be from the worst housing projects in any inner city in the US and that shit is nothing compared to some of the living conditions you see in the hood parts of the south

Some people still living in the original slave cabins still with outhouses

 

[^SpiderMan^]

that's crazy. i guess its another topic, but does these projects say anything about blacks or were these conditions designed for blacks to fall, nevermind....i spoke on the damage done by Atlanta closing down all the projects....i feel like if ngz want to be animals let them be animals in their caged environment...but many see it differently....by closing down the projects (and i see its not just an Atlanta thing many other cities are and have done it) it has fkd up areas that were once middle class black areas.

before i posted i was looking for some prison pics to go with it, lol. I'm at work, so i just did a quick google prison pics search and mostly found the inside of jail pics, but your right, that's exactly what that bitch looks like.

Slippery slope. On one hand, you don't want that ignorance to infect outside communities.On the other hand,that amount of concentrated violence and ignorance makes it close to impossible for the children to make it out. IMO the ultimate answer is to simply hold people accountable.Get tough on crime,prosecute the criminals so they are removed from the community,if the parents aren't shit, take the children out of the fucked up environments,reduce welfare for able bodied citizens,and give schools more money and resources.IMO we have to come to grips with the fact that most people just can't be "rehabilitated" and need to be removed from our communities.Sounds conservative would be effective.

 

[teeswinger]

I heard Pruitt Igoe in st louis was fucked too

 

[HotNixon36]

you can be from the worst housing projects in any inner city in the US and that shit is nothing compared to some of the living conditions you see in the hood parts of the south

Very true, still cannot believe what I saw in Montgomery, AL.

 

[papi68]

My cousins grew up in Stateway Gardens in Chicago. I saw some shit there. I was young and dumb. Blessed to make it out with my life...

 

[fabregas]

I can't even imagine what these places are like on the inside. Crack everywhere, weed everywhere, kids having kids, pissing in the hallways. Smh

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[ballscout1]

My cousins grew up in Stateway Gardens in Chicago. I saw some shit there. I was young and dumb. Blessed to make it out with my life...

Stateway wasn't bad.....beautiful view of Sox Park.....IIT right down the street..Nice swimming pool to cool off on a hot humid summers day...

 

[LordSinister]

Has anyone ever lived or been to any of these public housing projects?

Nickerson Gardens is a 1054-unit public housing apartment complex at 1590 East 114th Street [1] in Watts, Los Angeles, California.
Nickerson Gardens consists of 156 buildings with townhouse style units ranging in size from one bedroom to five bedrooms. It was completed in the year 1955, and the original architect was Paul Revere Williams. It was named after William Nickerson, Jr., the founder of Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company. The complex is owned and managed by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles. Nickerson Gardens is the largest public housing development west of the Mississippi River.
The complex occupies the blocks northeast of the corner of Imperial Highway and Central Avenue, and southwest of 111th St and Compton Avenue. It is on the border of both Watts (a district of South Los Angeles) and the CDP of Willowbrook.

Never lived there but used to go to Hawkins burgers across the street. Almost got shot the last time I went inside, so I don't fuck with that place no more.

 

[soulcontroller]

Very true, still cannot believe what I saw in Montgomery, AL.

What you know about the Gumptown fam? What did you see?

 

[Decon Frost]

Nothing is worse than Sunnydale, San Francisco. Maybe the whole of East St. Louis.

 

[Mack1052]

All of these NY dudes in this thread, and not a single mention of LG.

Interesting.

I never thought LG was that bad. I used to play in their summer basketball tournament back in the day (operation give back) plus gentrification and precinct on Classon made that a police Haven. All the p's mentioned was bad back in the day due to era but as far as bad right now, those Brownsville p's still hold the title for most likely to get caught in some bs

 

[ShortyCumStain]

Never lived there but used to go to Hawkins burgers across the street. Almost got shot the last time I went inside, so I don't fuck with that place no more.

Almost got shot how???

 

[Hitek]

Don't forget Brevoit houses in bed stuy

Brevoit was not bad until the late 80's went pass there to go to JHS 35 from Kingsboro

 

[Hitek]

Dont Forget Cypress Hill had thier own police Patrol Daily there was so much going on there my Peoples lived in the middle and if we didn't have a connection to King T anything could have happened, saw a guy get shot in front of his building in the middle of the day.

 

[three-fifths]

Some people still living in the original slave cabins still with outhouses

Very true, still cannot believe what I saw in Montgomery, AL.

you probably saw something similar to what bigirl stated.

 

[Hitek]

Benning Terrace is a public housing project of 274 apartments and townhouses in southeast Washington, D.C. located east of the Anacostia River in the Benning Ridge neighborhood.[1] It was formerly known as "Simple City."

i grew up just minutes away from this place. Near the lincoln hgts. projects.

Home to the Newly Gentrified DC give it a few more years, Ran the Brothers out to P.G. and moved money folks in, that area

 

[Hitek]

that's crazy. i guess its another topic, but does these projects say anything about blacks or were these conditions designed for blacks to fall, nevermind....i spoke on the damage done by Atlanta closing down all the projects....i feel like if ngz want to be animals let them be animals in their caged environment...but many see it differently....by closing down the projects (and i see its not just an Atlanta thing many other cities are and have done it) it has fkd up areas that were once middle class black areas.

before i posted i was looking for some prison pics to go with it, lol. I'm at work, so i just did a quick google prison pics search and mostly found the inside of jail pics, but your right, that's exactly what that bitch looks like.

the Van Dyke projects was the first multi unit that was more or less a failed design. grew up there for my first few years,and read about it in college,
thats why now a lot of "large housing" are being torn down for single or two family houses, they finally figured out that, that many people in small crowded conditions bring out the worst in some of those poor people.white folk

 

[SamSneed]

this pic is before they remodeled them, back in the late 80s and 90s, that place was crazy

 

[mathtest]

to the ones who mentioned Lafayette gardens, i actually think its 1 of the most placid projects i been to, also for the size that queensbridge is it's not that bad when you compare it to some of the smaller projects, out of all the projects in nyc 5 boroughs i think harlem has the most tamed ones, im basis that on 2013 standards, not back int he 80's when shit was poppin over there

oh and like another poster said, new Orleans projects shits on all other project in america, i dont know about now but yrs back them ppl were basically living in broke down abandon buildings, i cant believe ppl actually resided in them

 

[Mixd]

I worked a few murder cases in Marcy houses, but they aint hardly the worst projects in Brooklyn, or even Bed Sty for that matter. Tompkins houses and Louis Armstrong houses are worse than Marcy in Bed Sty. In Brooklyn you wanna talk about the worst, then you gotta talk about The Pink Houses or Cypress in East New York, or any project in Brownsville. Cops have to go 4 deep in some of those houses. Marcy is just infamous cause Jay-Z raps about it.

In Queens the same thing, although they are bad Queensbridge is not really infamous. A lot of rappers come from there so it gets talked about. Infamous in Queens would be 40 Projects and Baisley projects. Supreme, Prince and the Supreme team ran their drug and murder empire out of there.

I worked EMS for over ten years over the whole of Brooklyn, wasnt stationed to one area daily, was on a tactical unit. The one projects where we always had the most fear going up in was the ones on Navy and Sands, can't remember the name. This was 10 years ago. We barely went in without the po-po cause it's like that place always had some of the craziest type of shooting or stabbing or something. Every other shooting or stabbing we did, wasn't no probs going into anywhere, any other of the PJ's.

 

[mathtest]

oh and u wanna talk about fucked up living conditions jus drive thru camden new jersey

 

[bigirl]

I worked EMS for over ten years over the whole of Brooklyn, wasnt stationed to one area daily, was on a tactical unit. The one projects where we always had the most fear going up in was the ones on Navy and Sands, can't remember the name. This was 10 years ago. We barely went in without the po-po cause it's like that place always had some of the craziest type of shooting or stabbing or something. Every other shooting or stabbing we did, wasn't no probs going into anywhere, any other of the PJ's.

These are the projects behind thw whitman and ingersoll houses that the name was slipping me before. The FARRAGUT houses Even surrounded by Epic gentrification on all sides they are still EXACTLY the same.

 

[TheBigOne]

Lafayette Courts ends in 20 seconds of explosions, cheers, tears
August 20, 1995

After standing for decades as a bleak symbol of urban decay, Baltimore's Lafayette Courts housing project came to a dramatic end yesterday, collapsing into rubble and dust in a matter of seconds.

Shortly after noon, a series of slow, staccato explosions briefly shook the ground and flattened the desolate 11-story towers that had loomed over the eastern edge of downtown Baltimore. The spectacular display lasted just 20 seconds but fascinated tens of thousands.