Infamous Housing Projects

[Vulcha]

I saw one post about brevoort in bedstuy. that spot was rough. brevoit day was wild every year.

Yessir! That whole hood is no joke. There's a roti shop on Ralph ave right across the street from there, and the family that owns it are muslims. One time these little dudes started disrespecting the owner, and his wife (wrapped from head to toe) came out the back with the hammer in hand and was about to lay dudes out. Hubby grabbed it from her and everybody ran out that shit.

 

[biggboye5000]

Someone answer me this. Why doesnt public housing work in America? Every country ive been to has some form of public housing for the poor. And they have almost zero crime.

It seems like a win win for everyone. But rarely does it ever have a good ending in the USA.

In this country the projects are the equivalent of the slums like the favelas in Brazil. Not only is it poor but its po black folks. Poor whites and latinas live in projects too but they don't turn out the way the black folks projects do.

The poor black neighborhoods project or not are raggedy and crime infested. Poor white areas arent as crime infested. Trailer trash or poor rural redneck areas have crime and drug activity as well as some poor latina areas but it doesnt seem to be as intense as po black folk areas for some reason. Not in the US anyway.

There are some countries that have higher crime rates in their poorer urban areas though.

 

[Vulcha]

In this country the projects are the equivalent of the slums like the favelas in Brazil. Not only is it poor but its po black folks. Poor whites and latinas live in projects too but they don't turn out the way the black folks projects do.

The poor black neighborhoods project or not are raggedy and crime infested. Poor white areas arent as crime infested. Trailer trash or poor rural redneck areas have crime and drug activity as well as some poor latina areas but it doesnt seem to be as intense as po black folk areas for some reason. Not in the US anyway.

There are some countries that have higher crime rates in their poorer urban areas though.

Huh???

 

[KINGFROMQUEENS]

Worst project I been too was in Newark back in the mid 90's. Forget the name.

NYC wins. Too many people everywhere, shit make me nervous. Always somebody behind you & shit Them shits off Guy R Brewer. Smoking in that place had me paranoid as hell. Way too many loose muthafuckaz just roaming around.

You taking about Baisley Houses. Supreme and Prince ran them shits. I lived down the block. I get a kick out of everyone claiming they hood was the worst and the South this and that. Man in NYC we had more murders than yall cats had population. Only PJ'S or hoods even to be mentioned with the worst of NYC come out of Chicago and LA. Everyplace else, yea you may have had some shit places no Doubt, but when you have over 2,500 murders a year, over 100 in a 6 square mile hood (East NY Brooklyn) over 80 a year in a 1.6 square mile hood ( Bed Sty) Over 80 a year in a 1.2 Square mile hood ( Brownsville) , don't make those comments. Y'all don't even know what misery is. On the real, and no disrespect, but yall are playing ya selves trying to compare with the hoods of NYC, Chicago, and LA. from the 80's, 90's and early 2000's. Again aint saying these other places were not hard but on the real, murders in NY,LA, and Chicago were populations.

 

[KINGFROMQUEENS]

Man bring yo ass over to midtown south so u can deal with bums all day



Yeah that is def farruget

niggas aint shit over there

hey man you still third grade?

Nah 2nd grade chasing 1st lol

 

[mathtest]

Someone answer me this. Why doesnt public housing work in America? Every country ive been to has some form of public housing for the poor. And they have almost zero crime.

It seems like a win win for everyone. But rarely does it ever have a good ending in the USA.

yeah in Australia they have housing commission and it looks jus like the projects in new york but 0 crime, but with that said England projects are bad and crime filled also, so in certain countries a group of poverty stricken ppl=crime, jus the way it is

 

[KINGFROMQUEENS]

Don't think you get me, we had no problem going up in there. But our bosses used to tell us not to go in alone. No diss to no one here if they lived up there, but we used to hear the weirdest shit. You would hear of people threatening city workers like "yo son, you dont wanna go up in there right now" or some crazy shit. So uhh my job aint worth my life, I listen, lol.

Then I remember one time, I had a chick shot on the 14th floor, thru the window. We could see no other buildings around at her height. Came thru the window cause you could see the bullet hole thru the mesh screen and it went into her tit. She was perfectly fine. Was about a 22 it looked like, but was like not a building around that height. Made no sense.

Weird shit goes down in them buildings. Or used to...

And to the other posters, I'm talking Farragut Houses over on Navy and Sands, NOT Glenwood Houses, please...

Its NYC, weird shit goes on all over, but them projects aint thugged out at all.Maybe your bosses were pussy. Telling yall Ghost stories lol. As far as the chick, did you inspect the mesh ? Are you sure it was an entry and not an exit ? I mean I have never seen EMS conduct crime scene investigations. As a seasoned Homicide investigator I would check for that. There is always an explanation, just not always the truth at a crime scene. Shit I could walk into a 100 apartments and find 100 holes in screen mesh. But INFAMOUS , those projects, NAH my dude.

 

[KINGFROMQUEENS]

I saw one post about brevoort in bedstuy. that spot was rough. brevoit day was wild every year.

lol Brevoit day lol , man we talking about everyday. Brevoit is not and never has been infamous. Hard yes, like most projects, but not like that , even back in the day. I said in the start of this threat that Marcy was not all that compared to others, but Marcy day, cops get beat up every year. Brevoit aint making noise like that. Another PJ on the map cause of a rapper !!!!! FA BA LOUS !!!!!

 

[KINGFROMQUEENS]

this thread is like the milf thread, cats posting young chicks and calling them milfs cause they dont know what a milf is. Here cats taking about infamous ps's that aint infamous, cause they dont what it really is.

 

[The Untouchable GDFOLKS]

this thread is like the milf thread, cats posting young chicks and calling them milfs cause they dont know what a milf is. Here cats taking about infamous ps's that aint infamous, cause they dont what it really is.

What's a milf?

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[KINGFROMQUEENS]

What's a milf?

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[KINGFROMQUEENS]

Yessir! That whole hood is no joke. There's a roti shop on Ralph ave right across the street from there, and the family that owns it are muslims. One time these little dudes started disrespecting the owner, and his wife (wrapped from head to toe) came out the back with the hammer in hand and was about to lay dudes out. Hubby grabbed it from her and everybody ran out that shit.

So a chick was ABOUT to fuck up some LITTLE dudes with a hammer over a disrespect ? WHOOOOO GANGSTA MAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK OUT OF HERE LOL !!!!!! See cats dont know what Infamous is man !!!!!!!

 

[Vulcha]

this thread is like the milf thread, cats posting young chicks and calling them milfs cause they dont know what a milf is. Here cats taking about infamous ps's that aint infamous, cause they dont what it really is.

Good point. But I guess it comes down to the point of view of the poster. Everybody is from different eras and have different stories from there own POV. So "infamous" ends up being a subjective view.

Howard P's may not have been as wild back in the 80's and 90's for us old heads, but them young dudes nowadays get it shaking. So to their generation, it is "infamous".

 

[Vulcha]

So a chick was ABOUT to fuck up some LITTLE dudes with a hammer over a disrespect ? WHOOOOO GANGSTA MAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK OUT OF HERE LOL !!!!!! See cats dont know what Infamous is man !!!!!!!

You a funny dude.

 

[KINGFROMQUEENS]

Good point. But I guess it comes down to the point of view of the poster. Everybody is from different eras and have different stories from there own POV. So "infamous" ends up being a subjective view.

Howard P's may not have been as wild back in the 80's and 90's for us old heads, but them young dudes nowadays get it shaking. So to their generation, it is "infamous".

In my day she would have stayed inside and so would her man, or they both would be murder victims. Thats my point, every PJ aint infamous, only a few are, they rest are just hard or soft, but no matter what city only a handful should be mentioned in this thread.

 

[KINGFROMQUEENS]

You a funny dude.

No disrespect, just talking shit.

 

[KINGFROMQUEENS]

Good point. But I guess it comes down to the point of view of the poster. Everybody is from different eras and have different stories from there own POV. So "infamous" ends up being a subjective view.

Howard P's may not have been as wild back in the 80's and 90's for us old heads, but them young dudes nowadays get it shaking. So to their generation, it is "infamous".

Also just cause a Pj might be popping now don't make it infamous. There are plenty of hoods in NYC that were off the hook back in the day, but only a few where infamous. I am talking about places that books were written about, places that movies and tv shows are made about. Thats what I am talking about. Not a place that Jay Z is rapping about. Shit Marcy dont even got love for him but he always rapping about it. The place dont belong in this conversation, like most of the places mentioned here.

 

[Duval's King]

My weed man use to live over here

G Pheezy

 

[Vulcha]

No disrespect, just talking shit.

None taken.

I'm talking about how dudes interpret infamous from their own era and personal experiences. Not what's on a police report or what you've seen as homicide. As such, you have to know that everything don't get reported. And because it's not reported don't mean it's not happening.

BTW, my first post in this thread was about Cypress. You can't deny that it was the one of the wildest projects in New York.

 

[mathtest]

Also just cause a Pj might be popping now don't make it infamous. There are plenty of hoods in NYC that were off the hook back in the day, but only a few where infamous. I am talking about places that books were written about, places that movies and tv shows are made about. Thats what I am talking about. Not a place that Jay Z is rapping about. Shit Marcy dont even got love for him but he always rapping about it. The place dont belong in this conversation, like most of the places mentioned here.

yeah fam i agree , some of these projects mentioned are placid imo , shit i don't think queensbridge is that bad but its well known cause of the numerous rappers that came from there spanning decades

 

[KINGFROMQUEENS]

None taken.

I'm talking about how dudes interpret infamous from their own era and personal experiences. Not what's on a police report or what you've seen as homicide. As such, you have to know that everything don't get reported. And because it's not reported don't mean it's not happening.

BTW, my first post in this thread was about Cypress. You can't deny that it was the one of the wildest projects in New York.

I mentioned Cypress also. Off the hook.

 

[KINGFROMQUEENS]

yeah fam i agree , some of these projects mentioned are placid imo , shit i don't think queensbridge is that bad but its well known cause of the numerous rappers that came from there spanning decades

word.

 

[Lord T]

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

Haven't been through Camden, but I have been through Flint, Michigan (my girl is from Detroit and she has family in Flint we visited) and I honestly can't imagine Camden being worse

 

[Yogi Bear]

In this country the projects are the equivalent of the slums like the favelas in Brazil. Not only is it poor but its po black folks. Poor whites and latinas live in projects too but they don't turn out the way the black folks projects do.

The poor black neighborhoods project or not are raggedy and crime infested. Poor white areas arent as crime infested. Trailer trash or poor rural redneck areas have crime and drug activity as well as some poor latina areas but it doesnt seem to be as intense as po black folk areas for some reason. Not in the US anyway.

There are some countries that have higher crime rates in their poorer urban areas though.

It's simple. White folks don't see the need to test each other's "manhood" and take shit from each other. Killing each other when someone feels disrespected or is wronged rarely happens either.

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[ShortyCumStain]

I see this shit is becoming nothin' more than a pissing contest.

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[fwillia]

It's simple. White folks don't see the need to test each other's "manhood" and take shit from each other. Killing each other when someone feels disrespected or is wronged rarely happens either.

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That's such a sad reality.

 

[mailboxpimp]

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.

PINK HOUSE
if you do NOT live here ..... you have absolutely no business anywhere near these projects.... strangers are not welcome.... the police are shook... they know what it is...
armed robbery is the minumum

THE 40'S
My sisters best friend /FAMILY friend ...lived there..... we would visit ever now & then....I'd kick it with her kids all the time... one weekend... the front door was MISSING.... one of her son's is harold aka Jr...

BAISLEY PJ'S

 

[inkone]

Sunny Dale Projects in San Francisco are terrible.

thats where i grew up the swamp is what they called it

 

[God Dammit]

My mom and dad grew up in the Brewsters with Diana Ross.

 

[pinkhouses]

First thing that popped in my mind was Pink Houses. I caught a flat in a rental once by them shits cats were looking at me like I was something to eat.

I called the rental company told them where their shit was and hopped in a Black Pearl cab with the quickness.

lol

 

[mailboxpimp]

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

Marcy Houses, or Marcy Projects, is a public housing complex built and operated by the New York City Housing Authority and located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, at 40.697°N 73.951°WCoordinates: 40.697°N 73.951°W.[1][2][3] The complex was named after William L. Marcy (1786-1857), a lawyer, soldier, and statesman.[4] Consisting of 27 six-story buildings on 28.49 acres (0.1153 km2; 0.04452 sq mi), it contains 1,705 apartments housing about 4,286 residents (average of 2.5 people to an apartment).[1] Marcy was completed on January 19, 1949, and is bordered by Flushing, Marcy, Nostrand and Myrtle Avenues. is famous as the childhood home of rapper Jay-Z,[5] as well as Memphis Bleek whom the former signed to his label Roc-a-fella Records.[6] Jay-Z often described the housing project as a dangerous place to live, with high crime rates and prevalence of crack cocaine.


my lil brothers baby moms live ACROSS the street from these projects..... you can feel the electricity in the air.... it feel like something is going to happen any minute....

Bankhead Courts was a government housing complex located in northwest Atlanta, Ga. Bankhead courts was the location of the famous Atlanta child murders of the 1970s. In 2010, Bankhead Courts was demolished.

been there a few times....... 1 way in.....1 way out shit got real super quick day or night if you was on the wrong side of the situation/ not on the home team... deff not the place to be if you did NOT know someone official there...

 

[melonpecan]

someone asked why projects dont work here. ill tell you why


because they start out like this

where people didnt give a fuck about the residents


just to build this

where they felt like they was doing something but still didnt give a fuck


when they (the government) decided to try to give a fuck they tear that shit down and make this

so white folks can go to work by walking to the capitol



This is why the projects dont work here. its government housing but no one gives a fuck. the government cares about your taxes, your student loans, your social security - but you can take care of yourself. they dont care if there is crime in your area, or if your upstairs neighbor tub blows out and you flooded. the government as landlords here is a joke.

not like they was making money off of it anyway, i've heard stories about folks paying .25 for rent

 

[roblo]

I'm from Los Angeles so I've seen nickerson gardens and jordan downs but never had any reason to hang out in either. Lived in ATL for 10 years and went to bankhead courts a few times for some green.

 

[PDQ21]

Grew up in Currie Woods Project in JC, NJ which was demolished in 2003

7 buildings 13 floors shit was CRAZY growing up there

 

[biggboye5000]

You taking about Baisley Houses. Supreme and Prince ran them shits. I lived down the block. I get a kick out of everyone claiming they hood was the worst and the South this and that. Man in NYC we had more murders than yall cats had population. Only PJ'S or hoods even to be mentioned with the worst of NYC come out of Chicago and LA. Everyplace else, yea you may have had some shit places no Doubt, but when you have over 2,500 murders a year, over 100 in a 6 square mile hood (East NY Brooklyn) over 80 a year in a 1.6 square mile hood ( Bed Sty) Over 80 a year in a 1.2 Square mile hood ( Brownsville) , don't make those comments. Y'all don't even know what misery is. On the real, and no disrespect, but yall are playing ya selves trying to compare with the hoods of NYC, Chicago, and LA. from the 80's, 90's and early 2000's. Again aint saying these other places were not hard but on the real, murders in NY,LA, and Chicago were populations.

For the most part you are right. Due to the sheer size of those larger cities the crime and murder rates will be naturally a little higher.

But lets not forget towns like NOLA. That place has been riddled and infested with crime in the poor slum areas for decades including the housing projects. And what I have been saying to people for years about smaller towns don't think because a town is smaller that the crime wont be as bad. Big misconception.

Gary, IN, E St. Louis, Compton, CA, Camden, NJ, Flint, MI even Pine Bluff, AR have had some of the highest murder rates in the country during their peak violent periods.

I was living in the Chi when "Bangin In Little Rock" came out on HBO in the early 90s. People up there though LR was all cows and pastures. I was telling them then that that was not the case.

So the projects are usually a worse compounding and concentration of heavier crime, poverty and urban blight. Here in the US the housing projects for the most part have been a magnet for urban decay.