Infamous Housing Projects

[PDQ21]

I use to hear crazy shit about the projects in Newark in the 80's but a lot of them got tore down. Newark got the name Brick City cause they had so many projects. Seth Boyden in Newark Lil Bity in East Orange 108 Projects in Orange Crescent Lane in Irvington

yeah Nwk n Chicago had the most High Rises Projects in the USA

They pretty much decided in the 80s all them shits was coming down

Prince St PJs was roughest of em all in Nwk

Still a lot of PJs in Nwk but no more High Rises its only like 1 left in Irvington

In JC it was only 3 high rises to begin with Curries Woods tore down, Duncan Projects(A Harry Moore tore down) , n Montgomery(in the process)

In Paterson they tore down CCP in 99 n Alabama PJs in 09 only have the towers up now

BTW, St Louis had the 1st PJs ever tore down n Beantown had one tore down in I believe 88 making it the 2nd

 

[vandamation]

Sunny Dale Projects in San Francisco are terrible.

My pops showed me these PJs when I went to San Fran...

These shits are a FUCKIN mess...

not too far from the Cow Palace...

 

[Bacardilvr2003]

This isn't Desire. Check my post for a couple pics of Desire, and the projects I grew up in, the Florida. And you're right, they were fucking hellholes. But I grew up with some good people in there too.

The Saint T was a muthafucka



The Desire was a beast! I loved the 9, my people use to hate going to that part of town. Niggas would not go down to the end Louisa for shit [/QUOTE]

 

[Bacardilvr2003]

Desire Housing Projects. This pic is from a hole under the building.

This is after it was being prepared for demolition.. but to be honest.. doesn't look much different from when people lived here. There was MUCH misery to be found in Desire. But a lot of good people came from there too.

This is where I grew up.. the Florida Housing Project. It was often separated by the "black side" and the "white side" though, by the time I came along, it was as black as a VCR tape.


One last pic.. this was from 1970 in Desire.. it was a standoff between residents, and the NOPD. These residents were protecting members of the Desire chapter of the Black Panther Party. These residents were ready and willing to defend these brothers from an unjust police action.

 

[cozmic33]

One last pic.. this was from 1970 in Desire.. it was a standoff between residents, and the NOPD. These residents were protecting members of the Desire chapter of the Black Panther Party. These residents were ready and willing to defend these brothers from an unjust police action.

Powerful.

 

[moblack]

Funny that up North folks call folks from the South Bama's. When more people in the south own they houses or lives in homes. Especially folks who lives out in the country. Country folks usually own their plot of land. I could never live like that up north so crammed into tiny places.

 

[8/11Streetz]

my grandma stayed in the parkside i think thats what they was called boy them was some wild ass times. I had no clue what was going on around me. Then you had Chandler park right around the corner maaaaaaannnnn shit was crazy.

Then she moved to brewster Pj's i always wonder why she stayed there now that i look back on it i realize my fam wasnt shit for letting her stay there

 

[vandamation]

my grandma stayed in the parkside i think thats what they was called boy them was some wild ass times. I had no clue what was going on around me. Then you had Chandler park right around the corner maaaaaaannnnn shit was crazy.

Then she moved to brewster Pj's i always wonder why she stayed there now that i look back on it i realize my fam wasnt shit for letting her stay there

Sometimes, the older folks just don't wanna leave...

For years, my grandmother on my pops side lived right down the block from 40 PJs in Jamaica, Queens... My pops... My moms... My uncles... even my other grandmother... tried to get that lady to move from Union Hall st.(before they built York College... Her block isn't even there anymore)

BUT... She wouldn't move...

For her.... It was her home for soooo long... She didn't want to leave...

Shit was sooo crazy... that she was the last person living on that block before they tore everything down and made her block part of York College's campus...

 

[8/11Streetz]

Sometimes, the older folks just don't wanna leave...

For years, my grandmother on my pops side lived right down the block from 40 PJs in Jamaica, Queens... My pops... My moms... My uncles... even my other grandmother... tried to get that lady to move from Union Hall st.(before they built York College... Her block isn't even there anymore)

BUT... She wouldn't move...

For her.... It was her home for soooo long... She didn't want to leave...

Shit was sooo crazy... that she was the last person living on that block before they tore everything down and made her block part of York College's campus...

my grandma was a old school g to should have to shotguns and 3 revolvers she use to always say she wish a nigga would try to run up in her spot.

 

[vandamation]

my grandma was a old school g to should have to shotguns and 3 revolvers she use to always say she wish a nigga would try to run up in her spot.

I knew a lady like that in Redfern PJs in Far Rockaway, Queens...

A dude robbed her once and gave her black eye... SO... her son gave her .38 snub nose...

Dude came BACK to rob her again... and she BLASTED his ass... and never went to jail for it...

TRUE SHIT... Her name was Mrs. Fish... and she looked just like Moms Mabley...

 

[three-fifths]

Westlawn. Milwaukee

are these the pjs on west silver spring ave.?

anyway, milwaukee's ghettos are safe havens compared to those enumerated in this thread.

 

[Piff504]

Desire Housing Projects. This pic is from a hole under the building.

This is after it was being prepared for demolition.. but to be honest.. doesn't look much different from when people lived here. There was MUCH misery to be found in Desire. But a lot of good people came from there too.

This is where I grew up.. the Florida Housing Project. It was often separated by the "black side" and the "white side" though, by the time I came along, it was as black as a VCR tape.


One last pic.. this was from 1970 in Desire.. it was a standoff between residents, and the NOPD. These residents were protecting members of the Desire chapter of the Black Panther Party. These residents were ready and willing to defend these brothers from an unjust police action.

real shit

 

[Cock Head Jones]

Hmm...

Barry Farms
Sursom Corda
Mayfair

 

[jupitersmith_ret]

Honorable mention-edenwald projects in the bx

my old hood

 

[CoalhouseWalkerJr]

This thread is kinda depressing,

I grew up in Brevoort. Saw my 1st dead body in elementary school (dude kinda flew off the roof), saw bullets on the ground in the coliseum, robbed and got robbed.... and this was in the 70s! Brevoort was know for basketball tournaments, Brevoort Day, parties, and gunplay. The original 50 cent - Always there! Ya'll know what a notorious 'gun busser' that nigga was! I grew up w the niggas he respected and wouldn't fuck wit! Lotta street legends came outta Breevort: Conan, The Brown Brothers, etc.

Then moved the Boulevard Houses in East New York. More nigga shit! This nigga Tut was robbing everything moving (from Pink Houses). Held up a fuckn basketball court!

Got love for niggas in Linden, Cypress, Linden Plaza, Brookline, Fairfiled, Starret City (the niggas used to Surf elevators), Vendeveer, Fort Greene, and Engersol.

 

[joneblaze]

Fort Greene/Walt Whitman projects until 1998 the neighborhood has changed a lot but it's still a very large element of crime i the area

 

[BDR]

This thread is kinda depressing,

I grew up in Brevoort. Saw my 1st dead body in elementary school (dude kinda flew off the roof), saw bullets on the ground in the coliseum, robbed and got robbed.... and this was in the 70s! Brevoort was know for basketball tournaments, Brevoort Day, parties, and gunplay. The original 50 cent - Always there! Ya'll know what a notorious 'gun busser' that nigga was! I grew up w the niggas he respected and wouldn't fuck wit! Lotta street legends came outta Breevort: Conan, The Brown Brothers, etc.

Then moved the Boulevard Houses in East New York. More nigga shit! This nigga Tut was robbing everything moving (from Pink Houses). Held up a fuckn basketball court!

Got love for niggas in Linden, Cypress, Linden Plaza, Brookline, Fairfiled, Starret City (the niggas used to Surf elevators), Vendeveer, Fort Greene, and Engersol.

You took it back

 

[Cock Head Jones]

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.

big cities had more murders cuz they had bigger populations.

u mighta had 2000 murders for 20,000,000 people. 1 murder for every 10,000 residents at nyc's peak.

but dc mighta had like 500 murders with only half a million people. thats 1 murder for every 1000 people at its peak.

nyc aint really have shit on dc's level of ignorance and violence back then. i lived in bk, queens, nwdc, nedc and maryland during the 80s-90s.

and shit southern cities like new orleans and richmond,va and some parts of nc felt worse than dc to me.

 

[HAR125LEM]

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

Interesting.

Or The Lincoln Projects in Harlem off of 135th and Madison.
The Lincoln wasn't that bad in the 60s though. Just typical garbage and piss in the stairway, etc.

My late GrandParents (along with Moms and late Aunt) lived there for decades until '72. They were able to get into Riverside Towers on 139th/140th Sts.

GrandMoms worked for the city in Human Resources and was a very "classy" woman. She couldn't wait to get out of there. GrandDad was blase about the whole thing and took it in stride.

My Sister lived in Da Brick Towers in Newark during the 80s. It really didn't seem that bad. Getting over there was a bitch. Now she's in Lenox Terrace.

Had tons of friends that lived in the Bronx River Projects too.
Just like I had friends live in that ugly-ASS 3333 Broadway.

Anyone from NYC notice all the WHITE folks moving into these projects nowadays? There's been a steady rise of them in the projects all over Harlem.

 

[BlackArsenic]

This right here back in the day used to put fear in all queens projects. They even had to change the name from Edgemere to Oceanbay apartments just because of the reputation.

 

[AquaMarine]

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

Interesting.

Lafayette Gardens for sure. Calm and Cool, and deadly down by Pratt Institute. Also Albany Projects , Fort Greene and Pink Houses. Some of the finest girls came from some of the most dangerous place.

 

[tuckdog]

Funny that up North folks call folks from the South Bama's. When more people in the south own they houses or lives in homes. Especially folks who lives out in the country. Country folks usually own their plot of land. I could never live like that up north so crammed into tiny places.

They don't hear you.

 

[Cock Head Jones]

One last pic.. this was from 1970 in Desire.. it was a standoff between residents, and the NOPD. These residents were protecting members of the Desire chapter of the Black Panther Party. These residents were ready and willing to defend these brothers from an unjust police action.

powerful.

this would have made a much better thread topic.

black communities that stood up for themselves.

 

[biggboye5000]

Lafayette Gardens for sure. Calm and Cool, and deadly down by Pratt Institute. Also Albany Projects , Fort Greene and Pink Houses. Some of the finest girls came from some of the most dangerous place.

Sometimes, the older folks just don't wanna leave...

For years, my grandmother on my pops side lived right down the block from 40 PJs in Jamaica, Queens... My pops... My moms... My uncles... even my other grandmother... tried to get that lady to move from Union Hall st.(before they built York College... Her block isn't even there anymore)

BUT... She wouldn't move...

For her.... It was her home for soooo long... She didn't want to leave...

Shit was sooo crazy... that she was the last person living on that block before they tore everything down and made her block part of York College's campus...

That's the thing about that PJ life. The mix of the caliber of people. Its kinda hard to explain. Not to glamorize but the attitude of the normal citizens seemed much more humble and unified. I grew up there in the 70s when it was whole families but by the 90s the largest PJ demographics were single baby mamas. Lots of cute hoodrats with no good negroes always sniffing and hanging around. But lots of these girls were humble too.

There were a lot of old ladies who were fiercely and proudly old school and loyal to their communities. They would stay there for decades when the younger people would be eager to move out and escape.

The gang members were also protective of the people that lived there at least as late as the 90s in the Chi. It was a community type of unity. I was cool with a dude in the Horners that said he would let his boys know not to screw with me when I came through their buildings.

The gang members nowadays are on a completely different level. That was back when there was much more order and discipline within the gang's inner sub culture.

big cities had more murders cuz they had bigger populations.

u mighta had 2000 murders for 20,000,000 people. 1 murder for every 10,000 residents at nyc's peak.

but dc mighta had like 500 murders with only half a million people. thats 1 murder for every 1000 people at its peak.

nyc aint really have shit on dc's level of ignorance and violence back then. i lived in bk, queens, nwdc, nedc and maryland during the 80s-90s.

and shit southern cities like new orleans and richmond,va and some parts of nc felt worse than dc to me.

You are right about DC Chocolate City. Just like NOLA DC has a huge black concentrated population per capita. DC has a violent history and was one of the top cities for violence along with Detroit. Not a stat to be proud of but true.

 

[tuckdog]

powerful.

this would have made a much better thread topic.

black communities that stood up for themselves.

Yep. Exactly why they had to separate us. Either go to jail or college nigga.

Surprised no one mentioned the Iago Pruitt documentary in here.

 

[ballscout1]

 

[Cock Head Jones]

DC has a violent history and was one of the top cities for violence along with Detroit. Not a stat to be proud of but true.

yea you would be surprised how many cats... grown ass men... are proud of stupid shit like this.

shit i have seen dudes still claim hoods that have long been torn down for luxury condos.

 

[Cock Head Jones]

Yep. Exactly why they had to separate us. Either go to jail or college nigga.

Surprised no one mentioned the Iago Pruitt documentary in here.

i dont think i've seen that. imma download it and watch it sometime this week.

 

[biggboye5000]

Yep. Exactly why they had to separate us. Either go to jail or college nigga.

Surprised no one mentioned the Iago Pruitt documentary in here.

Never heard of this. The doc looks interesting. Been to the STL plenty of times. Got fam there. Another example of inner city urban decay and suburban white flight.

Wonder if the doc is posted anywhere?

Found the trailer:

 

[tuckdog]

Never heard of this. The doc looks interesting. Been to the STL plenty of times. Got fam there. Another example of inner city urban decay and suburban white flight.

Wonder if the doc is posted anywhere?

Found the trailer:

Its on Netflix fam.

 

[biggboye5000]

Its on Netflix fam.

Cool. Will check it.

 

[tuckdog]

i dont think i've seen that. imma download it and watch it sometime this week.

It touches heavily on the steps taken to remove black men from their families using public housing. Very good docu. Its on Netflix.

 

[Cock Head Jones]

It touches heavily on the steps taken to remove black men from their families using public housing. Very good docu. Its on Netflix.

im on it.

 

[Hitek]

This thread is kinda depressing,

I grew up in Brevoort. Saw my 1st dead body in elementary school (dude kinda flew off the roof), saw bullets on the ground in the coliseum, robbed and got robbed.... and this was in the 70s! Brevoort was know for basketball tournaments, Brevoort Day, parties, and gunplay. The original 50 cent - Always there! Ya'll know what a notorious 'gun busser' that nigga was! I grew up w the niggas he respected and wouldn't fuck wit! Lotta street legends came outta Breevort: Conan, The Brown Brothers, etc.

Then moved the Boulevard Houses in East New York. More nigga shit! This nigga Tut was robbing everything moving (from Pink Houses). Held up a fuckn basketball court!

Got love for niggas in Linden, Cypress, Linden Plaza, Brookline, Fairfiled, Starret City (the niggas used to Surf elevators), Vendeveer, Fort Greene, and Engersol.

Grew up in KingsBoro so as i said before had friends from Brevoort i went to 35 with, small world Tut almost wanted to fight me on the train coming from school on some wrong guy shit, because of his boy. years later come to find out he is my cousins cousin, in Cypress brother was legendary there rob his mothers Church, whole Bus of folks. his mom lost her legs because guys looking for him she answered the door. mom got jacked in the hill before nightfall he got her shit back.

 

[donhustle]

Was born there up till I was 5 got the hell out

Its on Netflix fam.