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.
