The Ingersoll Houses were the home of the original legendary NYC gunman Kelvin ’50 Cent’ Martin. Usually referenced with the rest of Fort Greene since ‘Walt Whitman’ doesn’t rhyme with much. Ingersoll Houses has twenty buildings, 6 and 11-stories tall with 1,823 apartments that are home to 2,640 residents. NAME: Walt Whitman Houses/Raymond Ingersoll HousesĪCTUAL FACTS: Completed February 24, 1944, Walt Whitman Houses has fifteen buildings, 6 and 13-stories tall with 1,652 apartments that are home to 2,485 residents. LYRIC QUOTE: “Or fatal robberies in Red Hook where feds look/For fugitives to shoot cops, niggaz layin on roof tops/ for his CREAM he stashed in a shoebox” GZA – ‘Cold World’ Angelz (consisting of Hell Razah and Shabazz) recently released an album dedicated to the area, titled Welcome To Red Hook Houses. Red Hook Houses still experiences it’s fair share of gunplay, however. With a giant new IKEA store and plans for the next season of MTV’s ‘The Real World Brooklyn’ to be filmed in Red Hook, it’s fair to say that the surrounding area is continuing to become more and more gentrified. Red Hook West has fourteen buildings, 3 and 14-stories tall with 1,470 apartments. Completed November 20, 1939, it is home to 3,053 residents. Red Hook East has sixteen buildings, 2 and 6-stories tall with 1,407 apartments. It consists of Red Hook East and Red Hook West. LOCATION: (East) Clinton Street, Brooklyn (West) Dwight Street, Brooklyn.ĪCTUAL FACTS: Red Hook Houses is the largest housing project in Brooklyn. LYRIC QUOTE: “I got you stuck off the realness, we be the infamous/you heard of us, official Queensbridge murderers” Prodigy Marley Marl, MC Shan, Tragedy, Mobb Deep, Nas, Cormega, Screwball, Capone, Killah Sha, Craig G and many, many more. He was charged with DWI and operating a vehicle without a license.” According to The New York Post: “An officer knocked on the driver’s side window, waking him up.” He then “stumbled out of his car, which rolled forward and almost plowed into the cops’ vehicle. The 50 year-old man was asleep behind the wheel at a green light around 2 a.m. SMART DUMB CATS: An unlicensed drunken motorist was busted after police caught him snoozing in his car at an Elmhurst intersection in August 2008. Super Ed also had close ties with Lake and Cormega, having been credited as co-Executive Producer of the Lake Entertainment Presents: The 41st Side album. Known to operate around ‘The Hill’ (where a strip of stores and a community youth center are located), ‘Super Ed’ and his crew were known to bring in as much as $10,000 a week during their three-year reign. Last major drug bust was in 2005, when around 40 members of ‘The Dream Team’ were arrested following an eleven-month undercover operation. Queensbridge South Houses has thirteen, 6-story buildings with 1,602 apartments that house 3,530 residents. Completed March 15, 1940, Queensbridge North Houses has thirteen, 6-story buildings with 1,540 apartments which are home to 3,457 residents. LYRIC QUOTE: “You crazy, think your little bit of rhymes can play me? I’m from Marcy, I’m varsity, chump, you’re JV” Jay-Z ĪCTUAL FACTS: Queensbridge Houses is the largest housing development in New York City. RAP ALUMNI RATING: Jay-Z, Memphis Bleek, Sauce Money and The Jaz (aka Jaz-O). It’s claimed that the crew were raking in around $5,000 a week in cocaine sales, and are suspected to have been involved in a double homicide in the area. In December 2007, nine members of ‘G’s Up’, a Marcy-based crime crew were arrested on drug and weapons charges as part of a joint sting between the FBI and the NYPD. Completed January 19, 1949, the development is home to 4,385 residents. Part 1.ĪCTUAL FACTS: Marcy Houses has twenty-seven, 6-story buildings with 1,714 apartments. The second and final part of Unkut‘s round-up of New York’s most hardbody housing projects.
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