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I'm not local, and have very little first-hand knowledge of the projects other than walking past a couple (well through one early at night). But from what I've heard, NYC projects don't really have the level of gang warfare that Chicago ones did, just idiot teenagers and young men with guns that get into personal disputes, often with the residents of the next project over. The 2011 murder rate for the projects was high, but not all that much higher than Chicago as a whole:
doing the math out for 1992, it comes out to about 34 murders per 100k project residents. If correct, barely higher than the city at the time as a whole. The projects are much worse than the city average. So it's unlikely that gangs were unusually concentrated there even back in the early 90s.
I see. Wiki made it sound like Cabrini-Green was unique cause they were in a nice part of town during it's existence though:
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Unlike many of the city's other public housing projects such as Rockwell Gardens or Robert Taylor Homes, Cabrini–Green was situated in an affluent part of the city. The poverty-stricken projects were actually constructed at the meeting point of Chicago's two wealthiest neighborhoods, Lincoln Park and the Gold Coast. Less than a mile to the east sits Michigan Avenue with its high-end shopping and expensive housing.
We here in New York have our challenges but a couple of NYCHA developments that were out of control with crime like in Chicago was in Brooklyn and the City gave them 6 months to move and tore them down. Once the city feels like they have no control and can't get the bad tenants out here in New York they will tear the building down which still leaves alot of innocent people homeless even though the straight tenants become prisoners in their own home any way
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