Infamous Housing Projects
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"Vice" had a segment about Rio since it will be hosting the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics. Shit is fucked up, what the drug lords don't control, crooked and ex-military does.
The whole episode is good, talking about how money is being wasted rebuilding Afghanistan, but the Rio part starts at 17:38 mark
It's bad in Rio right now man.... they're killing police officers like they're ants right now... one of the favelas has a full scale war going...
just watched this. Great documentary. Thanks
I spent my childhood till age of 17 growing up in Hayes Homes, building 65 apt 7e on 17th ave.
If I'm correct think like my old PJs yall had buildings with 13 floors n sum with 12 floors
What yr did they demolish Hayes?
We should be owning things like this for our people. Indians were put on reservations and are given money each month but the first people in America were black. Just like every other place on the face of the earth we were systematically killed off.
I use to talk to this chick who lived here
One night we were on the phone,
and the subject of "exes" came up...
She was telling me how her ex's family had money from owning a restaurant.
Because they had all this money...
She thought he was stupid for ALWAYS being in 40 projects...
NO LIE!
As she slept.
She was awakened by gun shots.
She went back to sleep.
Her girlfriend later called her cell and told her,
her ex was shot and killed in a dice game.
One night we were on the phone,
and the subject of "exes" came up...
She was telling me how her ex's family had money from owning a restaurant.
Because they had all this money...
She thought he was stupid for ALWAYS being in 40 projects...
NO LIE!
As she slept.
She was awakened by gun shots.
She went back to sleep.
Her girlfriend later called her cell and told her,
her ex was shot and killed in a dice game.
i've been going to these buildings since the 80's. I had some family in there. I believe they were knocked down a few years ago. Watch an old MOP video and you can see the buildings, as well as some of my relatives.
Been to queensbridge a few times, it really was hell on earth. Family lives in Lefrak.
Pink Houses.....yeah, stay away.
I grew up out in Coney Island. Gravesend projects, over the last few years, has been a war zone.
Went to Cabrini Green once visiting family in Edge Water like a dummy.
Yeah i was expecting to see pink houses in the initial post
I've been through Queensbridge, 40s, Baisley, Canarsie, Coney Island, Fort Greene
but the worst I've seen were Pink and Edgemere
I grew up in Bridgeport, and back when I was coming up you didn't want to come thru the Father Panik Village pj's. We used to call that shit Beirut. I remember messing with a chick over there who had a dude at the time. I dropped her off at 4am, and she told me let me off up the block so nobody sees you dropping me off. I said what about you? She says "I got my 38 on me, and my brothers boys are out here working. I'm good". I said "38"? She said yup. Oh and during that time, per capita Bridgeport was top 5 in the nation for murders. For a few years running. Lastly, the city filed bankrupt during that time too. I had homeboys who were firemen, and their paychecks would bounce!
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Damn B, I know you seen some shit.The pork n beans (liberty square) Miami, FL (liberty City)
The last well known projects standing in Miami I lived in here from 83-95. They are going to tear these down in two years
I got family in Florida, and stayed many summers down there in the 80's.
I seen so much shit I got immune to it. Unless it was in close distance gunshots didn't even phase me anymore.Damn B, I know you seen some shit.
Yo, The Picture We're Looking At Right Here, Is 17th Avenue, And That's 41-17th, On The Right. I Lived There, And Got Shot Across The Street There.
I've been in the Pink Houses,Marcy,Bushwick, and a few in east NY that I can't think of. Also every project in Oakland and 2 of the worst in SF. None of them can compare to New Orleans when it comes to poverty and actually feeling in danger. That said, projects are basically concentration camps where ignorance breeds.Especially in NYC.
I grew up 2 blocks away from Vanderveer estates now Flatbush gardens...veer was bad but not crazy
worst PJ's I've been to are Van Dyke, Gowanus and Cypress in BK
the absolute worst was a PJ's in Far Rock
those N.O PJ's look like a 3rd world country...the Calliope (sp) was always infamous like Cabrini for the wild ass violence and drugs
I'm from New Orleans, I know people from the Calliope, they'd be laughing their asses off at how scared yall are of them.
niggas either mention the Calliope or the 9th ward as the scariest parts of New Orleans, shit is comedy, especially with all these Otto Wambier look alikes walking around New Orleans now.
Had some good times down there as a teen. Looking back, I'm glad we never got hurt.