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	Queensbridge, Queens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Queensbridge Houses (40°45′18.7″N, 73°56′43.2″W) is the largest public housing development in the United States.
		The Queensbridge Houses, the largest of Queens' twenty-two developments, is located between Vernon Boulevard and 21st Street, immediately south of KeySpan's Ravenswood power plant.
		Queensbridge has historically proved to be a hotbed of hip-hop musical talent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queensbridge (1203 words)

	Public housing - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Public housing describes a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local.
		In the United Kingdom public housing is often referred to as "council housing" and "council estate," and is described in the article on that subject.
		Indeed, US public housing continues to have a reputation for violence, drug use, and prostitution, leading to the passage, in 1996, of a federal "one strike you're out" law, calling for the eviction of project tenants whose housing units are the scene of certain types of criminal activity, especially that which is drug-related.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Public_housing (642 words)

	New York City Housing Authority - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) provides decent and affordable housing for low and moderate income residents throughout the five boroughs of New York.
		The authority is the largest public housing authority in North America.
		Based upon the 2000 Census, NYCHA's Public Housing represents 8.6% of the City's rental apartments and is home to 5.2% of the City’s population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_City_Housing_Authority (227 words)

	BookofLists2004
		The Bowne House in Flushing is one of the oldest properties in Queens.
		Queensbridge Houses is the largest single development in all of New York City at 3,101 apartments.
		Queensbridge Houses is the City’s largest public housing development.
	www.queenstribune.com /guides/BookofLists2004/Pages/Housing.htm (1014 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Until recently, Queensbridge Houses, the largest public housing project in North America had been "represented" by Dorothy Peterson who as President had publicly stated that "the Tenant Association represents the interests of the Housing Authority." On Saturday October 18, 1997 the winds of change brought fresh air to Queensbridge Houses.
		Queensbridge Houses is a Federally funded New York City Housing Authority project with over three thousand apartments.
		As a representative of the largest public housing project in the country, Nina Adams' stance may well represent the millions of public housing tenants nationwide.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/97rad/Largest_Housing_Project_gets_New_Tenant_Head (364 words)

	Role of promptly reissued telephone numbers
		From 1951 to 1952, Alvin E. Thompson was a tenant at 34-20 24th Street in the Ravenswood Public Houses.
		From 1950 to 1955, Wallace R. Walker was a tenant at 50-04 31st Avenue in the Woodside Public Houses.
		Between 1955 and 1958, Iverson Dixon was a tenant at the Queensbridge Pubic Houses.
	www.members.aol.com /a1eah71/mysite/oswalds/reissued.htm (4678 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia
		Public housing or social housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local.
		Public housing generally consists of low-density detached housing on master-planned estates located on the suburban fringes of cities and towns, though some inner-city high-rise public housing stock can be found in Melbourne and Sydney.
		U.S. public housing continues to have a reputation for violence, drug use, and prostitution, leading to the passage, in 1996, of a federal "one strike you're out" law, calling for the eviction of project tenants whose housing units are the scene of certain types of criminal activity, especially that which is drug-related.
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Housing_project (1629 words)

	Printer Friendly Version - A Bridge to the past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Blake has spent almost 20 years in her Queensbridge Houses, in Long Island City, Queens, in the shadows of the Queensboro Bridge, and she says they are not like that anymore.
		Blake's Queensbridge, the largest housing project in the country with 96 buildings and more than 15,000 residents, is a safe place, close to Manhattan, where even between jobs she can make the rent and afford to feed herself and her son.
		She has wrangled talks with NBA star and Queensbridge native Ron Artest; rapper Nas (Nasir Jones), another local made good, and still is trying to nail one with legendary rap producer Marlon (Marley Marl) Williams, who, with MC Shan, created "The Bridge," an early rap megahit about life in Queensbridge.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/local/v-pfriendly/story/324911p-277756c.html (716 words)

	NYPD Press Release 2005-013 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The housing development, with over 3,000 apartments, is the largest in the city.
		From knowledge of the housing complex to undercover expertise and prosecutorial experience, all the bases were covered.
		Queensbridge is the largest public housing development in the City.
	www.nyc.gov /html/nypd/html/dcpi/pr-2005-013.html (652 words)

	Before the Transformation - New York Times
		But there was no mention of Queensbridge Houses in the description of the environs.
		My Jamaican immigrant parents chose Queensbridge to be their home because my father's bookkeeping job was in close proximity to Goldwater Memorial Hospital on Welfare Island (now known as Randalls Island).
		Queensbridge offered low-cost housing to a flavorful array of families diverse in age, ethnicity and religion.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E5D61630F93BA25751C1A9639C8B63 (171 words)

	jess marmor dot com > clips > two LIC's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Vice President of the Queensbridge Houses Tenants Association Rita Normandeau agreed with community board district managers and city council officials that there is no real racial conflict in Long Island City and, more particularly, in Queensbridge.
		A white friend of Normandeau’s applied to live in Queensbridge Houses and was reportedly told by the New York Housing Authority that he should probably look elsewhere: only African Americans live in Queensbridge.
		She remembered asking what community groups were planning on doing for Queensbridge and how Long Island City’s development would benefit Queensbridge, and was told that just in building up the surrounding parts of the community, there’s a rub-off value.
	www.jessmarmor.com /clip_taleoftwolics.html (658 words)

	Life Of TragedyLost Story Of One Of Queensbridge’s First Rappers
		Some will argue, especially those who hail from the 50 acres of Queensbridge Houses, that it is the richest pool of hip-hop talent in the world.
		Tragedy’s life story is also the story of rap in Queensbridge, from the Juice Crew, to the explosion of Nas to the latest QB act, Cormega.
		Queensbridge is also the backdrop for several more films in the works.
	www.nobodysmiling.com /forum/showthread.php?t=24713 (933 words)

	At Nation’s Largest Project, Residents Welcome Big Brother
		For six years, the chairwoman of the Queensbridge Tenants’ Association has been badgering elected officials for funds to install security cameras at her public housing development.
		Queensbridge Houses is the nation’s largest public housing development.
		He added that crime in the nearby Ravenswood Houses project, which has had the cameras for three years, is down almost 27 percent this year.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/september2005/300905bigbrother.htm (635 words)

	washingtonpost.com: With Artest, A Human Quality
		Every summer you go back to the Queensbridge Houses courts and throw barbecues for the whole neighborhood because you want to stay real, sitting outside in a cut-up T-shirt and slippers.
		You know what strangers don't, that urban public housing isn't automatically synonymous with ghetto, and while there are shootings and the odd vial on the streets, the buildings are full of good working class people who wake up every morning and have jobs to go to.
		Imagine how everyone at Queensbridge feels about Ron Ron, as they know him, the gentle-voiced, skinny kid who played in all temperatures and became a huge NBA success, and now is facing public condemnation.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A13398-2004Nov25?language=printer (1355 words)

	TIMES NEWSWEEKLY/THIS WEEK IN OUR COMMUNITY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Since the Queensbridge seawall has fallen into a dangerous state of disrepair, the city Department of Parks and Recreation has erected barriers around the seawall because of the constant threat to the safety of the families who use the park adjoining the seawall for picnics and recreation.
		The House Committee on Appropriations included the Crowley $100,000 request for the Queensbridge seawall in the bill that funds energy and water projects for 2003.
		“Queensbridge Park is a unique venue from which the people of Queens can enjoy the waterfront and view the Manhattan skyline-and for the more than 9,000 people living in Queensbridge Houses, it is the only city park within easy walking distance,” said Gioia.
	www.timesnewsweekly.com /Archives2002/Jul.-Sept.2002/072502/NewFiles/SEAWALL.html (438 words)

	Politicians Take Aim at Black Employment Gap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Although the 43-year-old resident of the Queensbridge Houses, America's largest public-housing development, found a part-time job this spring as a maintenance worker making $7.50 an hour, he has yet to find full-time employment.
		At the Queensbridge Houses, a complex of 96 stout redbrick apartment buildings where Quinn Smith lives, the percentage of residents without jobs seems high.
		His organization was established to connect residents in several public housing developments to the surge of businesses down Vernon Boulevard, less than a mile from Queensbridge.
	www.virtualboricua.org /Docs/nys78.htm (1714 words)

	Needles And Damage Done
		Queensbridge Houses is actually located in Community Board 1, but the site is near the dividing line between CB 1 and CB 2.
		Nina Adams, president of the Queensbridge Tenants Association, did not condemn the needle exchange program, but did point out what she believes are flaws in the process.
		He also indicated that he was not opposed to the needle exchange programs, but was offended that the residents of Queensbridge Houses were not consulted.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v04/n977/a09.html?21460 (936 words)

	Her Film Project Happens to Be Her Project - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Selena M. Blake lived at Queensbridge Houses during the many years when the gunfire of drug dealers crackled through the night and confirmed the public's view of the projects as a place of mayhem and menace.
		Blake, 43, also knew a Queensbridge that never made the news, a place where bus drivers, postal workers and seamstresses kept an eye on one another's children in the courtyard jungle gyms, and borrowed potatoes to finish off a stew.
		She had such great affection for Queensbridge, a checkerboard of six-story brick buildings along the East River in Long Island City whose 3,142 apartments and 7,054 tenants make it the nation's largest public housing project, that she wanted to correct the distorted portraits of life there.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/12/14/nyregion/14queensbridge.html?ex=1292216400&en=82ab93a9b78b5478&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (782 words)

	[NYTr] Forced Labor in NYC Housing Projects
		Altho the New York City Housing Authority administers both regular housing projects and "Section 8" Housing, the Section 8 tenants are automatically exempt from the forced labor.
		Queensbridge Houses on the other hand is over 90% minority.
		Cornelius is so oblivious to proper housing management that someone should ask him why the only convicted violent child molester in all of ZIP code 11101 is living in Queensbridge Houses.
	olm.blythe-systems.com /pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20040419/000992.html (411 words)

	ThugLifeArmy.com Keeping The Legacy Alive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		When completed in 1939, the Queensbridge Houses gained instant notoriety because of its sprawling size and role as a showcase for affordable public housing in the
		house to the housing project and apartment living.
		But her devotion to the Queensbridge residents - especially the young people who live there - is keeping her inspired despite the financial hardships.
	www.thuglifearmy.com /news?id=1176 (664 words)

	An Enigma In the Hall Of Infamy (washingtonpost.com)
		The largest public housing development in the country, it has an assortment of 93 buildings and about 5,000 residents spread over six square blocks not far from the East River, with a view of Manhattan across the 59th Street Bridge.
		The social centers of housing life, the basketball courts, are located in the building's courtyards.
		Queensbridge Houses also is where some significant rappers have found their voices, including Nas, Mobb Deep and N.O.R.E. Music and basketball went hand in hand.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A16934-2004Nov27_2.html (777 words)

	Queensbridge Projects - Rap Dictionary
		Also known as the QB, Queensbridge which is located in Long Island City, New York in Queens opened in 1940.
		Queensbridge is one of the most corrupted projects in NYC.
		In 1986, Queensbridge had the most murders within NYC Projects.
	www.rapdict.org /Queensbridge_Projects (128 words)

	QB Finest
		In the iconography of hip-hop, the Queensbridge Houses loom large.
		A product of Queensbridge Houses, Nas has often cited his home as a major influence on his outlook and his music.
		Adding to the pyro of this posse cut is the participation of MC Shan and Marley Marl, the forces behind the original "The Bridge" and two of the pioneers who helped put Queensbridge on the map.
	www.qbfinest.com /links.html (473 words)

	Bravehearts
		For as long as there's been hip-hop there have been the Queensbridge Houses, a monolithic structure that has served as both launching pad and muse to some of the most influential acts in hip-hop history.
		Jungle and Wiz both grew up in the QB houses and met as kids; hanging on the benches, soaking in the atmosphere and dreaming of a way to break free and go for their own.
		Wiz loved break dancing and rap and in QB he heard plenty of it, as the beats would ricochet off the concrete walls; but he was equally influenced by the gangsta drama he witnessed.
	www.urbanconnectionz.com /Bravehearts.html (959 words)

	IPA NY Voices That Must Be Heard
		A letter sent by the New York City Housing Authority [NYCHA] has sent a wave of fear through certain residents of the Queensbridge Houses projects in Long Island City.
		People are very frightened,” said Manuel Garante, who lives in the Queensbridge Houses with his wife, Janette Falconez.
		Her children are eligible for housing subsidies, Medicaid, food stamps and a little cash.
	www.indypressny.org /article.php3?ArticleID=1391 (474 words)

	globeandmail.com : globeinvestor.com : Citigroup and the Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House Announce Financial ...
		The Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House serves the western Queens area and primarily the Queensbridge Houses, home to over 15,000 residents, most of whom are African-American and Latino.
		According to the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the average income of families at Queensbridge is under $16,000 and 25% of the residents receive public assistance.
		We are pleased to work with the Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House to create a financial education program that will give so many individuals and families in Queens an education that will serve them well for the rest of their lives.
	www.globeinvestor.com /servlet/WireFeedRedirect?cf=GlobeInvestor/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20040813&archive=bwire&slug=20040813005074 (1184 words)

	Home > Hillsborough, CA, California Yellow Pages, Classifieds, Real Estate, Business, Schools, Library and Jobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The 20 six-story buildings are distinctive due to their shape - two Y\'s connecting at the base.
		During the 1950s, the management changed the racial balance of Queensbridge by transferring all families whose income was more than,000/year, a majority of whom were Caucasian, to middle-income housing projects, and replacing most of these tenants with African American and Latino families.
		Marl, MC Shan, Roxanne ShantÃ©, Nas, Blaq Poet, The Bravehearts, Mobb Deep, Cormega, Nature, Big Noyd, Blitz, Tragedy Khadafi, Lakey The Kid and both Victor "N.O.R.E. " Santiago and Kiam "Capone" Holley of the rap duo Capone-N-Noreaga, were all once residents of the Queensbridge Housing Projects.
	www.hillsboroughcaus.com /profile/Queensbridge (1165 words)

	At nation's largest housing project, slow news is good news \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		NEW YORK – At the same time as Ray Normandeau and his wife, Rita Frazier, began publishing news of Queensbridge Houses, this housing project was seized by a crack epidemic.
		In an era when urban planners are rethinking - and in some cases razing and rebuilding - the public housing behemoths built during the last century, locals say a sense of hope is permeating the nation's largest housing complex here in Queens.
		The average salary of Queensbridge residents is just $18,700 a year, and community leaders say 95 percent of them don't have bachelor's degrees.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/1228/p02s01-ussc.html (689 words)

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