Infamous Housing Projects

robert taylor was the largest project in the world,

until it was torn down. from 52nd-39th & state. 39th-35 was stateway gardens.

then you had the dearbornes in the 20's on state. ickies in the 20's on state st.

& lastly the hillard homes on like 21st & state street. pic is rt.


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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 :smh: Lil Bity in East Orange :smh: 108 Projects in Orange :smh: Crescent Lane in Irvington :smh:
Shit, in Orange them Mechanic Street niggas used to really get it poppin

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

^^^Youre probably talking about Prince St. Brick Towers, Seth Boyden, hayes home, Lil Bricks...I dont remember any projects name ringin out wit fear like Prince St, that was the last place you wanted to cop, visit a girl, or anything:smh:

And hes right the only projects I been to worse than Newark is in Chicago and Ive heard N.O. is awful across the board. And any hood Ive been to in Camden might as well have been the projects, that whole place needs to go.

my moms worked and lived in Jersey during a lot of my childhood and any NY PJ nigga I've taken over to Jers has had to agree the level of gullyness is a "tad" bit deeper
 
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.

Farrugett houses. Maybe they did not like EMS cause i been working Brooklyn North for 22 years and they were never the worst of anything. lol
 
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.

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

Farrugett houses. Maybe they did not like EMS cause i been working Brooklyn North for 22 years and they were never the worst of anything. lol

Yeah that is def farruget :lol:

niggas aint shit over there

hey man you still third grade?
 
These are the projects behind thw whitman and ingersoll houses that the name was slipping me before. The FARRAGUT houses :eek: :smh: Even surrounded by Epic gentrification on all sides they are still EXACTLY the same.
Yeah. that bugs me out, the Farragut projects and the development around it. Almost got caught by some stickup kids by the manhattan bridge. They lost their nerve cuz I kept my hands in my pocket and remained calm (on the outside) lol
 
I went to preschool in farragut and still got fam in there. To many beef between buildings for Farragut to every unite but I guess that's every project.
 
Not officially a project but, what's in a name..."The Jungle" now aka Baldwin Village. L.A. cats already know...hit on the rookie scene from "Training Day" filmed there not too far fetched. ;)

 
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I used to preech at the Caliope Project, but them niggas didn't want to hear no mooslum shit. So they shot at my ass. I ain't been back since. :smh::smh::smh::smh:
 
if you lived in atlanta in the 80s and 90s don't forget about jonesboro south!!! (one way in one way out). Oakforest in Clarkston. rough apartments there
 
Co-sign Cypress in ENY being one of the worst. But nothing fucking with all them damn projects in the Ville.
 
Never lived but been thru damn near every one in Chicago from the greens to the gardens, used to cop weed every now and then from the taylors when I was out that way.
 
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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."

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Brick Towers was a 324-unit affordable housing development in Newark, New Jersey, originally occupied in 1970. The buildings were demolished in 2006, despite opposition by the City’s Mayor Cory Booker who was living in the property at the time.[1][2] Although the buildings were reported structurally sound, there were persistent problems with poor management and associated criminal activity.

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The Robert Taylor Homes was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, on State Street between Pershing Road (39th Street) and 54th Street alongside the Dan Ryan Expressway.

Knew sooner or later you would get to me born there 1962
 
Been to green, gardens, Ickies, not rob Taylor though, my great granny lived in green, funny thing is you go under a bridge and boom your in china town like :confused: damn two different worlds and niggas didn't fuck around over there either, you would fuck around and disappear in one of them duck offs in china town and them mfrs keep to themselves over there. Been to magnolia, been to the ones in Bankhead
 
Farrugett houses. Maybe they did not like EMS cause i been working Brooklyn North for 22 years and they were never the worst of anything. lol

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...
 
Yo mixed D

Come to Disney land wit use real city and state workers

Midtown south lol
 
somebody in this thread post something that has my pc freezing every time i come inside it. Had to use an entirely different browser to post. cut out all the fuckign pics!!!


how you live in a bd building & hood, but was a moe?

...lol


Lived in Calumet during the first 9 years of my life. All the knuckle head shit didnt start until my pre-teens...once we moved on 67th and Blackstone (a block east of stoney island). Once I hit my pre-teens thats when I started kicking it in the Ida B's. Back then The Ida was most moes. But even then...I was still cool with a lot of the folks. Black and Mexican. Still cool with a lot of em to this day. The south side changed a lot...but I still walk freely all over the South East side; even where the folks be far far east...like past SSD.
 
Shit. Yeah, its rough down here but y'all niggas is a little more wild in the Chi. True to life hood niggas I don't fuck around with..

Chicago
DC
New Orleans
Baltimore
Philly

...in that order. :lol:

barry farms in the 80's - 90's :smh:
sursum corda
anything associated with Benning Rd. SE
 
I saw one post about brevoort in bedstuy. that spot was rough. brevoit day was wild every year.
 
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I work right up the street from Nickerson Gardens on S Compton Ave. Looks like ghouls and ghosts with hoodies on who roam the streets when I leave work at night in Watts...folks been cracked out since the late 80s.

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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. :smh:

My co-workers get their lunch from there sometimes...shit is heart-attack food for real...

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A guy who stays in my building worked with the BET Rap City film crew (before the Basement when Rap City use to film shows in the artist's hoods). He did a lot of work all over the country, we ate one day in the restaurant downstairs. He began talking about Magnolia Projects....then we started talking about crazy places he's been. He said to this day he's never saw anything crazier than New Orleans. He's from Brooklyn, he's been all over. He said New Orleans was the most gangster, scariest place he's ever been to. He said he had some fun times there but he said that shyt had a lot of hell in it.

Pre Katrina, NOLA was wild!!! It was really Vietnam when the Desire & St. Thomas projects were standing.

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The Saint T was a muthafucka

The worst projects I went to was the Desire Projects in the ninth ward of New Orleans. It was worst than Magnolia and Calliope combine.
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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 :lol:
 
Rockwell gardens westside Chitown back in the 70s. Grew up there on the 6th floor. Went to grade school at US Grant right across the street.

It was a surprisingly close knit community at least on our floor. lots of fond memories of the people anyway.

The crime was bad and the stairs were dark sometimes. The elevators were nasty most of the time smelling like urine.

Every couple of weeks or so or at least once a month you would hear about so and so getting shot or killed.

But there were some good times. We would have floor cleanups where everybody would get brooms, buckets and mops and clean the porch on the whole floor. We would have parties too. It wasnt really too different from the Good Times TV show.

Most everybody we knew eventually got out of the projects though except for this one family upstairs. She was still there over twenty years later. Her daughter had a family and did the same thing.

Growing up in the poverty of the projects was quite an experience.

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Nice lil vid on Chitown projects in general:

 
Rockwell gardens westside Chitown back in the 70s. Grew up there on the 6th floor. Went to grade school at US Grant right across the street.

It was a surprisingly close knit community at least on our floor. lots of fond memories of the people anyway.

The crime was bad and the stairs were dark sometimes. The elevators were nasty most of the time smelling like urine.

Every couple of weeks or so or at least once a month you would hear about so and so getting shot or killed.

But there were some good times. We would have floor cleanups where everybody would get brooms, buckets and mops and clean the porch on the whole floor. We would have parties too. It wasnt really too different from the Good Times TV show.

Most everybody we knew eventually got out of the projects though except for this one family upstairs. She was still there over twenty years later. Her daughter had a family and did the same thing.

Growing up in the poverty of the projects was quite an experience.

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Nice lil vid on Chitown projects in general:



Man you just brought back memories mella.

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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.
 
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