Comments about housing

There are 100 comments about "housing"

The Audacity of Attitude: Hey everyone. I'm a 29 year old white male who lives in Chicago and I rent an apartment in Lakeview a couple miles north of Cabrini Green. I drive by it almost every day and......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

People just walking streets: I am amazed by the sheer amount of low or no income housing in this sh**ter of a town. Fat slobs just wandering in walmart and on the streets. Now I know why taxes are......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

confused: I am confused. Whats all the fuss about? If they tear down the rest of the buildings, the residents move to more housing paid for by the government and people that they hate and harm(taxpayers)......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

My Block: Wow Laura, great story, I'm sure you got an "A" especially if the responses your article received had anything to do with grading you. I read every one of the responses and enjoyed them immensely.......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Joe Romaine: The Stanley Isaacs housing projects were all white back in the 1970s?? Wow, I live near there and it seems like all the tenants are black now....

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Growing up in East Flatbush: I grew up in the Glenwood houses from 1952-1965 it was the worst experience a young person could have , nosy neighbors turning you into the housing athority because your mother had a part-time job......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Agnes Doherty Ondrovic: Many of old-time Yorkville inhabitants were forced out by rising costs and upscale housing. There are a few of my old neighbors still living in City and Suburban houses which were almost destroyed by a......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Gooch: Thank you, Mrs. Ondrovic. One thing that amazes me about Yorkville is that we have rich, poor and middle-class all jumbled together, in some cases, living next-door to each other. For example, over on 1st......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

did time too: Spent a many nights and days behind those for walls. 8 yrs.Reid wash your mouth. you goof. I did my time in the mid sixties till the riot then was moved to diasyland,CB Yeah after KP became......

in response to: Kingston Penitentiary by EvilGentleman

Cinnamon: I have lived in Harrison about 20 years. It is a nice little town. Lately there has been eminent domain abuse. There is a new stadium going up and a lot housing being built....

in response to: Sidetracked in Harrison: Warehouses North of the PATH Station by Peter

Tex: Yes, you know your town mall has problems when it has a feature on [[http://www.deadmalls.com]]. LOL, I didn't know there was such a site. When I worked in Hutch, my employer who was one of......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

little ukraine: bah that sucks. partists lofts and live/work spaces are getting pretty big in the revitalization/redevelopment world as ways to provide affordable housing. would be nice if they give the artists someplace to go....

in response to: Chattanooga Bank Building by Mary Barnett

Franny Wentzel: Ask some of the survivors of genocide from Darfur or Rwanda or Cambodia or a million other places around the world if they would've objected to 'American cops' walking the beat in their baileywick. The truth......

in response to: Exremist school.. by Rune

CartLegger: miguel ayala AKA Apache: That strip of Grove Street is now the home of Hope Gardens, a the last section 8 NYCHA development built in NYC (1981-95), and the last in the US. Its not......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

miguel ayala AKA Apache: Wow I just googled my old address 248 Grove St Between Knickerbocker and Wilson and now there's a big porject or housing complex and across the Street is a park, it has been 30......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Renee Snell: Hi - I'm wee Boaby's sister - we lived at 37 Marlow Street -I was born in 1948, my sister May Snell was born in 1945, before the war ended. All 3 of us......

in response to: 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park by kobe

sher: I've just finished reading there are no children here. I'm from Canada and have never been to Chicago. I've always thought life in our housing communities were tough, but realize they are nothing compared to......

in response to: Crooked Post by GGP

Brooklynite: There are basically two sides to Brooklyn, on the west side, and along the water, it tends to be very safe middle and upper middle class neighborhoods with a few rough spots like parts of......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

RWgirl: My first post disappeared:( Anyway, the person who says you can be happy wherever you live is 100% wrong. In no way is that true. Even though I was born and spent my childhood......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Peter: 1970, when the new essex county jail was completed. oddly, this jail has been on the national register of historic places since 1991, but nothing at all is being done aside from letting it slowly......

in response to: The Old Essex County Jail Complex by Peter

David9000 : It was a crime demolishing so many old tenements in Glasgow - especially when they replaced them with the spiritually disturbing and Machiavellian housing schemes that followed. Like the author has said, many have been......

in response to: Glasgow Schemes4 by kobie

Safia : The amount of ignorance on this page is unhumanely ridiculous! All of the comments downplaying the south side of Chicago is clearly sheer ignorance. Gwendolyn Brooks -- a very intelligent historical figure lived in South......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

John Dereszewski: The baseball uniform in question is probably that worn by the "Bushwicks", an independent Minor League team. The Bushwicks played their games just beyond the Queens boundary, north of Jamaica Ave. Housing now occupies the......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

cl: I'll add that I am black AND white, born and raised, grew up in Chicago, in Lincoln Park before it was "Lincoln Park" when Agazzi, (the corner public elementary school) was a playground of Unknowns,......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

anon (pool-162-83-174-50.ny5030.east.verizon.net): I can see them renovating this into subsidized housing; if it were in Manhattan, they already would have. (See Gouverneur Hospital, which has a similar turret—that they sadly took the conical roof off of.)...

in response to: The Staten Island University Hospital by Peter

FDNY: The budweiser plant is about to be torn down. If you'd like to know what this little piece of landscape will be, google "Hunters Point South"... a 13-building high-rise condo project with low to......

in response to: Brownfields by Peter

anon (HAYDENMANAGER.HOUSING.ADMIN.NYU.EDU): This is why I'm glad I moved to Brooklyn. Great find!...

in response to: Giant Gear by Peter

Sean Hopkins: Let's go! I was there a few weeks ago with some of the fam. FDNY, NYPD, and the Parks Department all have offices there among the military housing. I ran into an old supervisor of......

in response to: Fort Totten by Sean Hopkins

Franny Wentzel: I tried to read as many of these post as I could and the one question I have to ask is of what earthly good is a 'poor' neighbourhood if it fails to provide and......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

TRUTH: GENTRIFICATION IN BRIEF http://www.enoughroomforspace.org/project_pages/view/198 Gentrification occurs in urban areas where prior disinvestment in the urban infrastructure creates neighborhoods that can be profitably redeveloped. In its earliest form, gentrification affected decaying working class neighborhoods close to urban centers......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

TRUTH: Chicago has been a hotbed for Gentrification. As a "Business Town" it attracts allot of out of town Professionals and Graduates. It also attracts those who wish to attend prestigious schools like The University Of......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Mime: I'm with you here, Peter. There are perfectly good buildings everywhere sitting empty due to people turning a blind eye to increasing homelessness because of owners' perceived financial or status loss. I was staying with a......

in response to: Cahbazm Doorfaces by Peter

Peter: this is on my block. to be perfectly frank, i kinda like it. the graf at least. in regards to bushwick having cleaned up... dont blame the graffit writers. blame the landlords who allow perfectly good......

in response to: Cahbazm Doorfaces by Peter

EvilGentleman: **Developer drastically scales back Griffintown project** Company wants less land than originally planned for residential-commercial development Last Updated: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 | 6:13 PM ET CBC News More changes are in the works for a multi-billion-dollar......

in response to: Griffintown by CE

Kozzy: Growing up in and around New Orleans, I was ashamed that my white friends spoke so horribly of the black community. My family never raised me that way and I think it's ignorant. ......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

CartLegger: i think thats right on the money. These will end up feeling like 1970s housing projects. they are wholly based on a boom which has gone bust....

in response to: Bending Toward the Sky by Peter

Franny Wentzel: Not a bad selection of parallelpipeds though the ventilation grills give the place a 1970s housing project feel....

in response to: Bending Toward the Sky by Peter

Debra (Brown) Bowden: I lived next door to this gas station in a house that is now college student housing...I am getting old...I too remember the ice skating pond by the hospital. Haven't been back there in years......

in response to: Kimchi? Sushi? Slush Puppy? Fill\'er Up! by GGP

Pantera: Unfortunately these cases or even WORSE happen many times. When I was a kid in my hometown Szeged (M.E.-Europe, Hungary) there were 2 abandoned cemeteries, a protestant and a catholic (mainly......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Rohinton Ghandhi: November 27th, 2008 To City Noise Editors, I have recently begun writing articles for the Verdun Messenger's new English Corner segment. They cover Verdun's history and the people within it. I thought your group......

in response to: Verdun Neon by CE

Santana: Brodidly AB and all the rest of you who got to live in Bushwick during the 60s and 70s are so lucky. Those were the years when "minorities" took over and made Bushwick what it......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Heather: Thanks for the journey into the past. I grew up close by and I had many friends who lived there. I am glad they are rebuilding and designing special housing there. We had so much......

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman

thesouthernapple: Hey everyone, I'm sad to see the neighborhood in such decline. But I'm glad to see so many memories here, about the Ave. I graduated Valerdictorian from St. Marks in 1985, and I know that......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

mami: bushwick cant wait to go back............. i lived in bushwick|flushing until i moved into my housing apartment in coneyisland and let me tell you i can:t wait to go back.... i miss siting in front......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Hands and Feet: Just got this today. The reality is this all started about the mid fifties or earlier. I remember moving several times before I was five years of age. This was due to depressed economics in......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): probably, pubs, clubs and bars and cheaply constructed housing sold at extortionate prices !!!...

in response to: Demolish the Railway Arches by Andrew Smith

carol: a helpful article to read ...http//www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/memphis-crime . the correlation between the imploding of the housing projects and the rising crime rate in places which these tenants were relocated to....

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

serlingrod: I do not defend the status - I wish to change it. I do not "draw a salary on the backs of the suffering" - the little funding we receive goes towards helping these people......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

G. Groulx: I think it's sad that there are over 150,000 homeless people in Canada. Abandoned houses or building can be fixed up and be used for the homeless. They can also be used as low income......

in response to: Abandoned Homes by JayEastsider

Devil's Advocate: There is so much injustice involved with all of the unaffordable housing in Chicago and displacement of the former residents of "the projects." Throughout this blog there is so much talk of what should and......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

phantom: Actually, a number of sociology papers have been written on "white flight" in Kensington. Census & demographic data supports the theory that the largest exodus was to follow jobs. As the mills closed (Houghton's, Stetson......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

kim-plateau: looks like welfare housing found in any U.K. area. I'm not kidding. They are sad looking and for that price?!! Fools come in all colours....

in response to: M9 by CE

bighouse: This is totally unreal. People go on about living conditions and so on. Why is it that people who get things for free and so on expect free forever?? I get no......

in response to: Cheap Sex $60 by Elicar

LoveNorman: I moved to Norman from Telluride, Co about 9 months ago....and I would NEVER move back!!! Norman has what Telluride could never have....moral, friendly people, available housing and jobs for the working class, and......

in response to: America's Most Boring Towns: 1 by Scott Sargent

Genevieve: Indeed, that building housing the Uniprix was once home to the Savoy theatre. Good eye....

in response to: 45 Minutes in Verdun by CE

sharon, swansea: hi could i explain why i`m posting this please, I LOST MY 19 YR OLD SON KARL,( AKA KARLO...) TO METHADONE MISUSE, IN OCT 2007, AN ABSOLUTE WASTE OF A LIFE, HE WAS......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Peter: truthteller: the signs on the building are standard nycha signage, stating "only tennants and their guests are allowed in building", you know, the sort of signs you see on section-8 housing all over the city.........

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

crystal palmer: ther is a public housing museum that is being fomed presently in ABLA we are looking for story furniture a things that can be place in the museum for more information you can look on......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Joe Seeking Contact: Check the current demographics on Elkin school and it is evident that the neighbor hood makeup has changed. Just like Kensington was wonderful to us as kids, so it is today for the current residents.......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

upfromflames: Rather than call them "bushwick houses" they are better known as Hope Gardens. And they make up what is the last housing project ever built in the United States. ...

in response to: Bushwick Houses by Peter

Jon Burgess: My Gran lived on Atherton Lane for 50+ years, I always remember the massive bonfires on the bammer throughout the 70's / early 80's. Down the bammer was a newt pond with protected species of......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

67502 May 7, 2008: Hutch has not grown since I came here in 1978. It's a retirement town with lots of low income housing and those people DO NOT support our downtown or help us stay in business.......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Johnny: The cost of living is cheaper here but it still sucks. Why don't we leave you ask? Because now we are stuck here with the housing market and all the other crap. Jacksonville......

in response to: Scenes from a Little Town Called Jacksonville by Jones

colavitos ghost: if those "suburbs" are only a block away from a "very urban part" of town, they can't realistically be called "suburbs" then, can they? for me, a "suburb" is much more than just a style of......

in response to: 45 Minutes in Verdun by CE

Sheila Vaudrey: Hello Jenny and Janet(Sutton), I lived at No 42 Harewood Road and I do remember you living there also I remember the field that belonged to your granddad, it came at the side......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

tasha: i curently reside in the projects the philadelphia housing auth. i go to school and have a job but still proverty stricken i believe the book portrayed good image of the projects. people who......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

John Dereszewski: Puffy, Linden between Central and Evergreen is a block that has undergone a considerable transformation over the last decade or so, clearly for the good. I knew this block very vividly during the bad days of......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

imon: jacksonville has a cove ,yeah its looking decent,yes its trying to compete with other major cities,but it is a racist city ,it has the good ol' boy mentality, paysucksno matter what you say, housing might......

in response to: Scenes from a Little Town Called Jacksonville by Jones

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Dom, I will pass on to my son John the photos of the housing estate shops where he and his nana Jaques ( Vi as she liked to be called) had the greengrocery at the......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Christopher : I agree of what they they are saying. The bad people should not come and take over by buying housing and making a condo and expensive for others. ...

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

James: This is great site, have just discovered it. I have many happy memories of schooldays at Irlam in the 1960s. Spent half my time down at the canal watching the big ships pass through, especially......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

James: This is great site, have just discovered it. I have many happy memories of schooldays at Irlam in the 1960s. Spent half my time down at the canal watching the big ships pass through, especially......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Angela Bentley: Looks like no one has been on look at this wonderful site and letting people remember the past. I am still trying to find out if any one remembers kathleen fisher who lived on......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

NYwondering: I'm originally from Illinois and now i'm doing a research project on Cabrini Green and specifically the Candyman urban legend. I know the movie took place in the housing project but I was wondering......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

me: The cost of living is much higher in larger cities compared to smaller cities in most cases,so a person has to make more money to cover the higher costs of housing,gas,groceries,etc. But hey,overall I agree......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

CSR: There Are No Children Here really moved me to do something about public housing, and raise awareness about it. Being a kid myself, I don't know what I'm going to do about it, but I'll......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

ExKansan: I guess I missed all the above mentioned incest, pedophilia and lynch mobs growing up in Belleville, but I must say that would hardly be boring! Like other posters here I moved away to a......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 3 by Scott Sargent

Steve M: Hi Deb I was brought up in Collins Close during the 1970s. I remember the cat story. I can't confirm whether this was true or not, even though I worked at the pub briefly......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

EvilGentleman: Well Elicar, my previous article on this particular location has become something of an online focal point for those who lived there during its heyday, much like Corsatki's {Cabrini Green} articles. Thus, this page is intended......

in response to: The Destruction of Benny Farm by EvilGentleman

D.Bennett: Damn it`s like every time get on here i see a new paragraph about someone who has died from the hornets and often someone i new like (tony Wood aka Nuke i......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

anon (d58-111-103-252.adl2.sa.optusnet.com.au): Hi Anne No private fireworks for us now, the danger of bushfires is too great.Leaving Irlam after spending 55 years there was a big pull, and came about after visiting my wife's sister Edith (nee Jaques)......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

QNS4Life: Ive lived in flushing my whole life and went to school at Brooklyn Tech in Ft Greene which was once completely burnt out and is now becoming gentrified. Maybe we dont have so much......

in response to: GANGS ON NYC by StripesA4

Alan Taylor: Hi Rob, Yes I certainly remember that wilderness and the stories but my time period in there and along the River Glaze to the footbridge that connected Glazebrook to Cadishead over a big rough n wild......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Hunter: I'm back again, and will comment again on Tex's "statistics". Tex your reply to my criticism of your use of crime statistics was simply to attribute the data to the FBI, but I did not......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

noname: Tex, you have brought up very good points. Hutchinson is a poor example of a city even when compared to other towns in Kansas. Hutchinson has been on a steady down fall for years. People......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Tex Re: Hunter: Hunter, I also noticed you didn't comment on these statistics: Hutchinson compared to Kansas state average: Median household income below state average. Median house value significantly below state average. House age above state average. (Which means......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Tex: Ok, lets start with the facts instead of people's 'opinions' about how great life is in Hutch. city-data.com/city/Hutchinson-Kansas.html Median Household Income for 2005 Hutch residents: 33,300 Kansas residents: 42,920 Hutch govt. employees: 53,604 !!! Hutchinson compared to Kansas state average:......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Hannah: I read the book "There are No Children Here" by Alex Kotlowitz a few weeks ago and it was a wonderful book. A real eye opener to the terrible conditions of the housing projects in......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Great pics Marissa, I can't believe the state of Irlam High school............what the????? How do Governments expect children to function to the best of their ability in an unaesthetically pleasing environment such as that? ......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Rob Tynan: Alan Ship hotel is very much the same as the picture you posted except there is a new housing estate in the carpark and over the bowling green, and "Marvels Market" building which was to the......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Malou: What I am wondering is where do the gangs go when these housing projects are torn down? ...

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

Andrew Smith: Roy - it wasn't me, I'm afraid. I did know a few people who lived in the police houses on Fiddlers Lane and was friends with the Richardson's. My address was Fiddlers Lane but it was actually......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

mchll_vallance@yahoo.com: which project was it that yaki kadafi got murdered by the gun in. i know it was 325 mechanic street 3rd floor, east orange, it was a housing project but does anyone have a photo?......

in response to: The Projects of East Orange by Peter

jamal: I remember the Henry Horner projects very well. I never lived in any of them but lived one block away on Warren Blvd. near Damen. I remember as a little boy when they were......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Rob Tynan: Natalie The "old shed" next to the ship was "Marvels Market" Before that I believe it was the first picture house in Irlam, and before that the local bus run by the landlord of the......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Thanks guys. Yes it was the building that was next to the doctors surgery, on the corner of Fairhills road and liverpool rd. I remember there was a Lidl supermarket there last time I......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Alfred: "Old bastards" - I'm 26. Maybe young people in this city should learn to take enjoyment from simple things like taking a stroll at Dillon Nature Center or listening to non-commericial, uninterupted classical music on......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Evinrude: Alfred. Again you stated over again what has been brought up before. If you have looked through the site you will see that old bastards like yourself enjoy the same things, the comsmosphere, NJCAA,......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

John Dereszewski: To DeSales again: My long excursion into the history of this street might not have answered your question, which probably was: How would it be to live on DeSales Pl. now? The fact is, DeSales is one......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Thanks Bob, that has cleared a few questions up for me. However, What do they do with the bones and gravestones when they develop the land for housing such as the housing estate that was......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith