what are the worst and the best nycha developments (Webster: living, price)
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Who ever would say Throggs Neck Houses is still a nice place to live does not live here. The crime is out of control. The people that are moving in have destroyed this once lovely place. Years ago we had manangers that got off their behinds and walked around the complex to make sure the grounds where clean, not anymore! the NYCHA just collects rent, they supply no services, repair nothing, thats why the buildings are falling apart. NYCHA has become the new slum lords. The NYCHA needs a make over from the top down. We need to get NYCHA back on track, they have fallen off. and in response to a earlier comment about NYCHA being for poor people who are down on their luck, not true! 59-60yrs ago, you had to work and be married to get into NYCHA, that's when there was a thing called middle income, now your either poor or rich. And! if NYCHA would get back to Real apartment inspections maybe the living conditions would be better. Get rid of the tenants who destroy the property, the ones who throw trash, dirty pampers, food out the window, get rid of them. Get rid of the tenants who destroy the apartments, who's kids are in gangs, and writing on the walls, and selling drugs get these people out so the rest of the tenants can live in peace. That's what the NYCHA needs to do.
In the Bronx, the only 2 best housing projects are:
1) Pelham Parkway - Quiet & working class neighborhood, near Jacobi Hospital, respectful neighbors and has one of the best management offices in NYCHA.
2) Throggs Neck - Also a quiet and working class neighborhood and has its housing police preicinct.
Warning: All other housing projects in the bronx has illegal drug and gang activities (Bloods/Latin Kings/Crips/etc.), gang fights, trouble makers, drug addicts smoking weed or crack in front of your door, stick-up kids, daily gossip, urine on the elevator and hallway floors, graffitti all over the interior of the buildings, excessively noisy/disrespectful neighbors, management offices that only care about is your rent and does nothing about your complaints, plenty of vacancies to keep you in the Bronx forever.
The worst housing projects (in numeric order) in the Bronx out of all the other bad ones are:
Now.... There are more than 2 housing projects that are the best in Manhattan (Excluding Marble Hill) which in numeric order are:
1) Harborview Terrance - Located in midtown Manhattan, is the fanciest, newest and the most quietest housing project NYCHA has ever owned. There is an obstacle to get selected for an apartment in this heavenly housing project. It is managed by Amsterdam Houses, a housing project a few blocks away where everybody that applies for Harborview Terrance will get selected for Amsterdam (a housing project full of gang members).
2) Harlem River - Located in a middle-income Harlem neighborhood, it look like condominiums and it is a very traditional, respectful and quiet housing project similar to Harborview Terrance. Generations pass by and there still be very little vacancies and to be selected to Harlem river, all you need is an application and a dream.
3) Dyckman - Located in in a working-class Inwood neighborhood, it is convinient to transportation, restaurants, nightclubs and stores 24/7. It's quiet all over the housing project (except if you get the bad luck to live next to noisy neighbors that take advantage of the peace and safety around them). In that case, the Dyckman Management Office is very poorly operated to handle tenant's complaints and transfers so if you get selected to live in Dyckman, the peace and safety is guaranteed but not the overall quietness within your apartment. Overall, Dyckman is like a mini Co-op city and you'll feel like a millionaire while renting one of these apartments. But you must believe in one thing to get an apartment in Dyckman. "Good things comes to those that wait (years)".
4) Baruch - Located in the Lower East Side, it's the largest housing project in Manhattan and it's also very quiet at all times. There are always
vacancies in Baruch because some people prefer close transportation over peace and quiet. It's also close to supermarkets and a $50 a year city gym. It's also safe and peaceful.
5) Grant - Located in Central Harlem, has a powerfull tenant patrol that keep the housing project clean, safe and quiet at all times. It's near the 125th street shopping area and it also has a housing police preicinct. It's also near all transportation. It is worth the wait for an apartment in Grant.
Warning: Same warning as the warning about the Bronx housing projects except that NYCHA would love to transfer you as soon as possible to the Bronx, Brooklyn or Staten Island if you need a transfer.
The worst housing projects (in numeric order) in Manhattan out of all the other bad ones are:
1) Polo Grounds
2) Rangel
3) Drew Hamilton
4) Jefferson
5) Johnson
5) Wagner
6) Manhattanville
7) Amsterdam
8) Rutger
9) Marble Hill (Marble Hill is located at the northern tip of Manhattan)
Throggs neck has no police presence, thats why drugs are being sold in a childrens play ground, in the open and you see no police. people get killed every other week. The Gangs are in full effect, don't let Throggs neck fool you. people who live in that place can tell you horror stories.
no! no! no! Throggs Neck no good. Filthy place to live. the rent office block, and the police station block are the only clean area's in the complex. we are getting all kinds of wild life living in Throggs Neck, why? because they have plenty to eat, plenty of trash all over.
nycha is a socialist dung hole for societies losers ,deadbeats, derilicts,drug addicts,pedafiles,rapist,scam artist,ex-cons,murderers ,cop killers,a haven for guest on the jerry springer show.and last but not least abusive children killing parents and grandparents of fatherless infants.
Are you really serious? that statement is so crazy. You say! you work for housing? can you honestly make such a statement? I don't believe you work for housing. If you did, that statement would have never came across these pages. BECAUSE YOU WOULD KNOW THATALL PEOPLE IN NYCH ARE NOT THE SAME. I happen to live in NYCHA, and I am non of the above. There are many working class people in housing.
I work for State , my neighbor is a social worker, my down stairs neighbors, one works as a bus driver, the other works for sanitation, Most of the people living in my building are hard working people that do not fall into that catagory.
Also, according to NYCHA you are not able to get an apartment in Housing if you have a record, so that knocks off most of your list. and the children killers! live in homes, with back yards, one just got away with murder. I found your statement to be very offensive, but I guess that's what you was going for. The shock factor.........
Yea Throggs Neck Houses are probably crappy, but Throggs Neck in general is no where near a bad neighborhood.
Yes! your right, The Throggs Neck area is wonderful, beautiful, and safe.
But the Throggs Neck Houses is not, it has become a horrible place. The NYCHA, does not care who they move in now a days. Therefore tearing down the WHOLE neighborhood.
All are dangerous to a degree. Some more than others. There are a couple of other safer ones and a bunch more dangerous ones. All the projects in Brooklyn are bad.
Throggs Neck is no longer safe, it is now very dirty, and someone gets killed every other week. Drugs are being sold out in the open, people hangout in the buildings smoking pot, and there is no repercussions. The POLICE in Throggs Neck are SLEEP, A JOKE, WORTHLESS.
all of nycha sucks, i know. i worked as a maint man, asst.supt and supt.over a period of 26 years in a dozen of these sewers.
Are you one of the reasons that Throggs Neck is so Dirty?
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