How to identify Housing Projects? (New York, Amsterdam: co-op, houses, neighborhood)
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Not always the case but alot of the housing projects are really large brown buildings. In many cases they are in groups of 4 +, you can usually tell them apart in a neighborhood. But the best way is to see the signs...."Welcome to Sedgwick Houses" etc
Projects can b low rise as well...all brownish tall buildings grouped up arent projects tho..I liv in a Co-Op development that is often mistaken as part of projects the buildings are next to
LOL. Actually, that is part of the reason I ask the question, 'cause I want to avoid accidentally bumping into that kind of neighborhood. So if I see from distance some PJ-like buildings I'll detour...
Not all projects are a hell hole. Granted there are there fair share. I walk by Fulton houses regularly and I have survived. I had a friend who lived across from Amsterdam houses. The first time i had to walk through at night i asked a near by police officer if it was ok. He say "yeah its mostly families" and it was. There weren't people running out to mug me. If it makes you nervous just cross the street!
New York City's housing projects are easily identified, especially those of the outer boroughs (mostly Queens, Bronx & Brooklyn). Looks for multiple high (or low) rise red brick buildings. All windows have window gates, and are the buildings usually surrounded by trees.
You can't always be sure.There are plenty of non projects that look more like projects than some of the real projects.Peter Cooper Village,Stuyvesant Town and Parkchester are perfect examples.Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village sort of blend into one another and when I first moved to NY I thought they were one huge project... like the biggest I had ever seen in my whole life. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14920388/
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