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My mom grew up in Ravenswood Houses in Astoria (35th ave and 21st). How are they?
what about other Queens houses?:
-Queensbridge
-Woodside
-Fresh Meadows
-Rochdale Village
-Lefrak City
-Astoria
-The ones out by Rockaway: (Hammels, Averne, etc...)
i've been to queensbridge before...it looks more intimidating than it really is. i know the buildings on the vernon blvd side have a serious rat problem tho, maybe cause of the proximity to the river. dont know if NYCHA rectified that situation.
Never been to woodside, but i've heard its one of the better NYCHA in queens.
Never been to Astoria Houses, so i cant say....never heard anything about it either....
Fresh Meadows, Lefrak and Rochdale are not NYCHA.
Forget about any NYCHA in rockaway they're the worst NYCHA in queens....all of them! some buildings are worse than others, and some are ok, but sorry to say they suck overall....and i'm from rockaway, i spent more than enough time hanging out in hammels. not to mention the fear of getting shot while going to the store....
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williamsburg also has a large jewish population in the projects.
Yeah, Taylor Wythe was the name of one of them. If I recall correctly, only one elevator runs on Sunday, and during the summer, you couldn't play ball in the courts past sundown. This was over 10 years ago.
I'm not sure what neighborhood you would call the area where Williamsburg Houses are, since it's not really in the same area over by Marcy Avenue where the Hasidim reside and live in the projects. I grew up in the Bushwick Houses, which I always thought was pretty tame. Borinquen Plaza was pretty mild, too. In my opinion, the quietest of them all was Cooper Houses, mainly because it was tucked off in the middle of nowhere. I worked there for a summer as part of the Housing Youth Training Program, and it was easily the quietest housing project I had ever seen. Again, this was over 10 years ago. For all I know, it could be a war zone now.
Never been to woodside, but i've heard its one of the better NYCHA in queens.
Never been to Astoria Houses, so i cant say....never heard anything about it either....
Woodside isn't so bad. It's next to Bryant High School, so you have to deal with high school kids, but it's really not that scary or dangerous. Astoria Houses have the occasional fights, but they're not particularly all that dangerous either.
Yeah, Taylor Wythe was the name of one of them. If I recall correctly, only one elevator runs on Sunday, and during the summer, you couldn't play ball in the courts past sundown. This was over 10 years ago.
I'm not sure what neighborhood you would call the area where Williamsburg Houses are, since it's not really in the same area over by Marcy Avenue where the Hasidim reside and live in the projects. I grew up in the Bushwick Houses, which I always thought was pretty tame. Borinquen Plaza was pretty mild, too. In my opinion, the quietest of them all was Cooper Houses, mainly because it was tucked off in the middle of nowhere. I worked there for a summer as part of the Housing Youth Training Program, and it was easily the quietest housing project I had ever seen. Again, this was over 10 years ago. For all I know, it could be a war zone now.
well williamsburg houses is still in williamsburg. i've never been to cooper park. but i've never heard of anything happening over there, or it being particulary dangerous. i think aonther 1 of the jewish projects is called jonathan williams plaza, the one near broadway and havemeyer....i think those are also the same ones that are on division avenue.
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As far as wort as being run down and dirty. I say Tompkins is the dirtiest NYCHA development I have seen in Brooklyn or Queens, there might be dirtier ones in the Bronx or Manhattan. Trash all over the hallways plus too strong a stench of urine. Bushwick PJs and Breukelen are definitely cleaner IMO. Now as far as crime goes I can't call it there are so many rough PJs. But Tompkins definitely needs to be cleaned up. Alot of Senior Citizen only developments are safe and clean. The Conlon LIFHE Towers in Queens look like a nice apartment building.
As far as wort as being run down and dirty. I say Tompkins is the dirtiest NYCHA development I have seen in Brooklyn or Queens, there might be dirtier ones in the Bronx or Manhattan. Trash all over the hallways plus too strong a stench of urine. Bushwick PJs and Breukelen are definitely cleaner IMO. Now as far as crime goes I can't call it there are so many rough PJs. But Tompkins definitely needs to be cleaned up. Alot of Senior Citizen only developments are safe and clean. The Conlon LIFHE Towers in Queens look like a nice apartment building.
dirtiest in brooklyn? lol too many to name....surfside plaza in coney island was definitely one of the filthiest projects in brooklyn i've ever been too, inside and out. howard houses in brownsville, the outside was filthy, but the building itself was clean.
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"The man who sleeps on the floor, can never fall out of bed." -Martin Lawrence
As far as wort as being run down and dirty. I say Tompkins is the dirtiest NYCHA development I have seen in Brooklyn or Queens, there might be dirtier ones in the Bronx or Manhattan. Trash all over the hallways plus too strong a stench of urine. Bushwick PJs and Breukelen are definitely cleaner IMO. Now as far as crime goes I can't call it there are so many rough PJs. But Tompkins definitely needs to be cleaned up. Alot of Senior Citizen only developments are safe and clean. The Conlon LIFHE Towers in Queens look like a nice apartment building.
I grew up in Bushwick. If that can be considered clean, I'd hate to see what dirty is. Tompkins I can agree with, that place was filthy. In fact, all the projects in that area (Sumner, Tompkins, Roosevelt Houses) are filthy.
I grew up in Bushwick. If that can be considered clean, I'd hate to see what dirty is. Tompkins I can agree with, that place was filthy. In fact, all the projects in that area (Sumner, Tompkins, Roosevelt Houses) are filthy.
I don't mean that Bushwick is clean by any means. I meant cleaner then Tompkins. I guess a better description would be Bushwick PJs are not as filthy as Tompkins. It has stairwells that smell like port o pottys you know that ammonia smell.
I cant say for other places. I have an apartment in Rutgers (Lower East Side) and wouldn't give it up for the world! Although the area is not like it used to be. Its the younger generation making it the pits. But like all PJs some buildings in the complex are better than others. So it makes u single out the whole complex.
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