Sentences with phrase «public housing projects»

Some politicians are pushing for more security features and police officers at public housing projects after a news report revealed an alarming spike in criminal activity in the city - run buildings.

The nearby public housing project towers have come down, replaced by mixed - income housing.

I am not sure how we could find volunteer crews to do the work public housing projects need.

Highlights features portraits of individuals from the artist's past, who, through various means, were able to make it out of the notorious public housing project.

Many a time I would look at public housing projects and would always think the same thing: How depressing.

The proposal stems from NYCHA's efforts to raise revenue for repairs and capital projects by permitting building on the grounds of eight different public housing projects in Manhattan.

As part of the exhibition, Willats contributes his wall work Orientation Drawing (1968) as well as the two videos Workers Paradise Essen (2001), in which the artist explores public housing projects for workers and visually associates objects and symbols found within the environment.

A good architectural photograph of a very large public housing project, its scale well conveys the monumentality of the building and Gursky's decision to shoot the building with an overcast sky permits the building's excellent use of color to show forth well.

Bronx prosecutors have quietly stopped charging people arrested for trespassing on public housing projects through stop and frisk procedures, unless they interview the arressting officer and the officer convinces them to proceed.

ALBANY — After months of promises to defy Washington and blaze a progressive trail, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Friday announced a deal on a new state budget that would grant New Yorkers some protection from the Republican - steered federal tax plan, pour an additional quarter of a billion dollars into public housing projects and enact a raft of new sexual harassment policies.

Nearly 70 percent of playgrounds at city public housing projects are plagued with broken equipment and other hazardous conditions — and in many cases, the problems were swept under the rug through bogus inspection reports, it was reported Wednesday.

Mahoney said she convinced Cuomo to provide $ 200 million in state money for a sports stadium on the site of the demolished Kennedy Square public housing project - about a mile down the hill from the Dome.

A Beacon resident reports breathlessly on a online real estate forum that Montgomery Gardens, the high - rise public housing project next to the Beacon, will be gone in a few years and «they've stopped renewing leases».

Because the school recently moved to the building from Watts, many of its students are bused in from public housing projects.

Michaels Development, for example, was awarded a 748 - unit housing project by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to redevelop the Kuhio Park Terrace and Kuhio Homes public housing projects in Honolulu.

Eleven miles northeast, where the notorious Cabrini Green public housing project once stood, Tara Stamps asks a young man to help her wheel a cart down the hall.

He's seen the approach toward redeveloping impoverished public housing projects evolve with the implementation of Choice Neighborhoods.

And people saw these big public housing projects and they saw them go up, the big cinderblock monsters.

1949, every American should have a safe, clean, decent place to live and we went out and built public housing projects.

Also at 10 a.m., Brooklyn BP Eric Adams will announce a $ 50,000 contribution toward the reward for the apprehension of a suspect in a fatal stabbing incident at a NYC public housing project of two young children, Boulevard Houses, corner of Stanley and Schenck avenues, Brooklyn.

The program would raise revenue for repairs and capital projects by permitting building of market - rate apartments on the grounds of eight different public housing projects in Manhattan.

Its executive director, David Pickens, personally knocks on doors in public housing projects where low - income families live.

The subject matter of his paintings, installations, and public projects is drawn from African American culture and rooted in the geography of his upbringing: in 1963 he moved with his family to the Nickerson Gardens public housing project in the Watts district of Los Angeles, just a few years before the race riots began.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- The Bronx district attorney's office is no longer prosecuting people stopped at public housing projects under the city's stop - and - frisk policy unless the arresting officer ensures the arrest is warranted.

We examine short - run impacts of changes in residential neighborhoods on the well - being of families residing in high - poverty public housing projects who received Section 8 housing vouchers through a

And if that wasn't enough we welcome new space Public House Projects and founder Neil Drabble to the South London Art Map.

Residents who live in New York public housing projects were allowed to hold onto their large pets a little longer after the city extended the deadline for heavy dog registration.

Many of the notable planners and architects who designed communities for low - and moderate - income residents in the early years of this century were wedded to this «retrograde ruralism,» and their influence would be visible in later public housing projects that featured streetless «superblocks» marked by substantial expanses of empty (and often hazardous) space.

Specifically, he was one of a gang of twenty teenagers and thirteen young adults from Chicago's vast, grim Robert Taylor Homes public housing project arrested for pickpocketing at Churchill Downs in Louisville on Kentucky Derby Day.

What to do with Buffalo's Commodore Perry public housing project?

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders toured a Brooklyn public housing project Sunday to roll out his affordable housing agenda and later drew a record crowd his campaign estimated at more than 28,000 to a rally at the borough's Prospect Park.

Some politicians are pushing for more security features and police officers at public housing projects after a news report revealed an alarming spike in...

An Obama - administration program designed to pump private dollars in neglected public housing projects is paying off, according to an independent study.

Red Hook East Houses, one of the oldest public housing projects in the United States, has the most lead paint of any project in NYC.

Public Housing Problem: A New York City Department of Investigation report found that the NYPD's «systematic failure» to communicate required information to the city's public housing authority, NYCHA, is partially responsible for the disproportionately high crime rates that have plagued public housing projects.

Hawkins said that the old large - scale public housing projects concentrated poverty and segregated minorities.

This afternoon, elected officials and three Manhattan community boards are out with a letter they have sent to Mayor Bloomberg and NYCHA Chairman John Rhea concerning a proposal to build luxury housing on parking lots and other open space surrounding public housing projects.

Then a landmark 2001 study of Chicago public housing projects turned greenery into a tool for crime prevention, showing trees and green spaces seemed to reduce crime rates by bringing residents out more often, and putting more eyes on the street.

Left: A single mother of four describes what it's like to raise a family in Potomac Gardens, a massive 1960s - era public housing project in Washington.

«In the neighborhood where I live in Brooklyn, there was a school that was considered a bad public school and it enrolled many children from a local public housing project,» she says.

What I've witnessed is much of what is discussed in Janet Currie's article, Are Public Housing Projects Good for Kids?

Under the shadow of the West Virginia hills on the Ohio side of the river lies Steubenville, a hodge - podge of solidly built, well - maintained churches and other buildings; burnt - out brick husks with gaping holes where windows and doors once were; sagging single - family houses and tired public housing projects; warehouses; abandoned businesses; and trash - strewn empty lots — all crammed together in one compact area.

Doria, 15, is growing up in the rough Paris immigrant public housing projects.

The latest, Fleshmarket Alley, finds our hero investigating the death of a refugee in a low - rent public housing project.

Bexar County, Texas: New Bibliotech (All Digital Library) Opens in San Antonio Public Housing Project (Infodocket)

Talk: Dana Lixenberg at Aperture Gallery and Bookstore After the Rodney King trial and subsequent riots, photographer Dana Lixenberg began taking pictures of the residents of the Imperial Courts public housing project in South Central Los Angeles.