8 Most Infamous Housing Projects

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

The 8 Most Infamous U.S. Public Housing Projects

These housing projects are mired in a troubling history, with notorious locations like Queensbridge and Cabrini-Green.

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8) Holmes Towers, New York City, NY​

7) Pruitt-Igoe, St. Louis, MO​

6) Queensbridge Houses, Queens, NY​

5) Robert Taylor Homes, Chicago, IL​

4) Jordan Downs, Watts, CA​

3) Magnolia Projects, New Orleans, LA​

2) Marcy Projects, Brooklyn, NY​

1) Cabrini Green, Chicago, IL​

Do you feel a project got snubbed from this list?
Was Marcy really that bad or people celebrate it cause of Jayz?

 

[Canada Goose]

Marcy is only well known cause of Jay Z.


I played basketball in Marcy, when to school with kids that lived in Marcy, etc, it wasn't that bad. Yes, there was a street element in Marcy just like most PJs in NYC have, but it's not even the worse PJs in Brooklyn.


Marcy, Tompkins and Sumner PJs are right next to each other and I hung out outside in all three while being a nerdy square with no street ties without issue.

 

[Rekkapryde]

I thought Cabrini got torn down or converted to condos? @Art Barr @beenz @CHICAGO

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

I thought Cabrini got torn down or converted to condos? @Art Barr @beenz @CHICAGO

I think this is an all time list.

 

[TEH]

I thought Cabrini got torn down or converted to condos? @Art Barr @beenz @CHICAGO

I only know Chicago from TV / Movies but a lot of great movies were based in those projects.

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

Any Midwest heads on here know about Pruitt?

 

[darealvelle]

Any project with candyman lurking there got it

 

[CHICAGO]

I thought Cabrini got torn down or converted to condos? @Art Barr @beenz @CHICAGO

I think this is an all time list.

THIS

ALL OF THE CHICAGO
SKY SCRAPER PROJECTS ARE GONE



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[StackorStarve]

Prince Street projects in Newark. They were demolished.

 

[Rekkapryde]

THIS

ALL OF THE CHICAGO
SKY SCRAPER PROJECTS ARE GONE



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What's left that are high rise PJs there?

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

Prince Street projects in Newark. They were demolished.

School us about them

 

[doublecheese]

Prince Street projects in Newark. They were demolished.

BTG or "slash" as well

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

Magnolia was torn down after Katrina and now sits new apartments. So the pushed the people out and put up new housing? Who from Louisiana up here?

 

[beenz]

I thought Cabrini got torn down or converted to condos? @Art Barr @beenz @CHICAGO

all the high rises were torn down over 15 years ago and replaced by apartments with some affordable ones thrown in there.

a couple of the buildings were replaced by a target.

and there's still some vacant land where cabrini high rises used to be that have nothing on them

there are still some low rises, but they haven't been lived in in years that I know of. I don't work in the area anymore, so I'm not seeing it nearly as much as I used to back in the day when I witnessed them knocking them down on the regular.