1973 SPECIAL REPORT: "NEWARK HOUSING PROJECTS"

This episode of Black Journal examines the saga of the Kawaida Towers, a housing project in Newark, New Jersey.

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[@jayonez137]

My family all settled in north Newark when they came over from Italy 🇮🇹 in the early 1900’s. My entire family all lived in the same building. Cousins, grandparents, uncles,aunts. Everyone in the neighborhood spoke Italian There were Italian pork stores and other shops in the thriving neighborhood. When the riots happened in the 1967 my great grandfather was mugged and beaten within an inch of his life for his last $2. My entire family eventually all moved out of the neighborhood into other areas of NJ and NY. I still go into Newark for the restaurants occasionally. There are really good places to eat in Newark.

[@AMERASIAN12]

I am sorry that your great grandfather experienced that.

[@J68browneyez]

9-2-68 I came into the world, Newark,,NJ born and raised. I say that proudly with my head up. NEWARK!💪💪💪

[@VeganWolfNews]

7-31-68 | came into the world, Newark, NJ born and raised…. Blessings to you fam.. Morton street school, west Kinney to Central high school.

[@valenciamontgomery1805]

1-9 - 1964 born Newark, NJ.

[@jimmybum3337]

Id rather be from NEW YORK...then Newark🙍

[@J68browneyez]

@@jimmybum3337 The crazy part is, I been living in NY for the past 25yrs now,So what's your point? Brooklyn and Yonkers

[@NovemberReigne]

I was born in Newark, NJ on 11/14/1968

[@kingofthecatnap6246]

The Best History Channel on YT. 👑

[@Jay42000]

Absolutely. ✊🏽

[@seabrook1976]

No doubt.

[@Sincere4Eva]

And Dane Calloway✊🏾

[@ripred42]

For real, this shit gets lost in archives and no one cares. Then when you upload it to the internet suddenly they remember their copyright

[@ThePlayboyLen]

Nice touch with the Method Man joint✊

[@woodywood1890]

Yooo the clarity and acoustics had me blown away.

[@zigman3105]

Dope, but Redman would be more fitting

[@lamontjackson1251]

Whats the name of this track

[@robertwalker7010]

Malcolm X said don’t push yourself on white people Malcolm was right get your own.

[@DianaRodriguezdmr]

As a person born and raised in jersey it's the type of place that will chew u alive if u allow it if u stand solid and keep ya head up high u can over come the trials and tribulations of your environment because I'm from passaic new Jersey and live out in Woodbridge now and regardless of where u are in jersey ITS FAMILY DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCE its greasy out here YET THERE IS ALWAYS A SENSE OF LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER even when it's hard to see

[@KevinHall-yj9zc]

Brick city!!!!! One of a kind!!

[@AbeTheSigma007]

You had a teacher named Yedwab???

[@Myopinionmattersthemost]

I lived in Newark like 14 years and I never had any real issues living there. I would come home on the last njtransit train from Manhattan and had no issues. I grew up in San Diego so if I could live in Newark, I'm thinking most East Coast folks could survive there.

[@curtis8954]

so sick of racism. be nice to each other. STOP HATE

[@taquanp4593]

Classic... My city born and raised.. Home of the brave, almost 50 years later we still have some of these same issues, love my city though

[@sheedbrickcity3631]

Got to love it yo💯💯💪

[@scottpuryear2810]

Love my City I remember when we were on our way back from Virginia I felt so happy seeing that sign on Raymond Blvd Welcome to Newark and the carusso,s dinner and the smell of that butterie corn on the cob there. I was 16 and a sophomore at Barringer yes than it was half Italian the rest blacks and Puerto Ricans we had the best of the good and the bad times

[@NajSinghs]

"Sorry. We cannot accept collect calls." 👀😅💕

[@sheedbrickcity3631]

Man I'm from Stella wright, and when I saw my building. 85 Muhammad Ali ave( Waverly ave)it almost brought me to tears yo haven't seen that building in 30yr's good job bro 💪❤️💯

[@JacobAlibi]

time stamp... I'm from Newark too

[@marzet70]

You the best bro!!! I have been trying to look for projects of my beloved city and couldn't find anything!!! Newark was a serious chocolate city with a great spirit!!!

[@lequanlang6632]

💯💯💯

[@joenardiello2731]

👊🏻💪🏻

[@AmericanMayan]

They ALL were. Your black leadership sold it out so stop voting for sell outs

[@shawnmoore1726]

Im a black man but real is real when they build them towers that was the worst thing ever happen to black people in newark

[@thebluesandothercolors6602]

Profound point.

[@petej7002]

Yeah i think we were lead to think that when housing got Expensive that it was the governments job to make it cheaper. But we went against the #1 rule of this country . Capitalism. We should invested in private housing and Not Projects.

[@shaftjudgedme3130]

Them buildings were just that a "project" and it was a failed one.

[@ericwhite2842]

Them particularly projects never went up

[@picilocarnal]

@@petej7002 exactly! Not having a path to ownership is big deterrent to improving their immediate surrounding for many.

[@Piggy-Oink-Oink]

I dont know where you find these incredibly important historic films but keep the truth coming.

[@kekelavette4733]

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[@MITCHY_B_2003]

You have to open up KZbin , look at your phone and in a loud voice , tell it what you want . Say , “ I want you to stop recommending me garbage ass videos , I need more interesting content , make me smarter !! “ If you repeat this mantra to your phone about 10 times , it works . Trust me .

[@selamhazel4708]

@@MITCHY_B_2003 corny asf

[@JamalMcCoy-tx2vz]

I'm with you Keke

[@Myopinionmattersthemost]

I do not want to hear another one of my nyc or nj friends say there's no racism there. Irish and Italians appear to be extremely racist on the east coast.

[@drinkingbleachislife1405]

Damn you got me on a video binder 😆

[@terrenceabate1116]

That trac though 💯 haven't heard that one in years!!

[@besteraever80s99]

Curtis Mayfield would be a good choice musically seeing how this is 1973 ❣️

[@drpoundsign]

THANK U

[@andreweasternman8788]

Typo, sorry! Meant to type '... about the times in which we live', not the other discombobulated bit.🙄🙄🙄😳😁👍🏻

[@3rdeyevizual]

Redman because he is from Newark New Jersey. Im from iron bound section. North jersey stand up

[@scottpuryear2810]

73 we had the Escorts from newark had some good hits

[@Silkyjohnston95]

What song is that playing?

[@ccth22]

Now Baraka’s son is the Mayor of Newark.

[@robertwalker7010]

He ain’t nothing like his pops oh well.

[@donnycipoletti2227]

The new Kawaida towers are being built at 17-21 Halsey. Slap downtown next to military park. Where there are luxury high rises right next door. Affordable housing for Newark residents

[@mob4336]

A Terrible location to pick

[@J.J23]

My father was brought up in the projects, I forgot which one. Please do Jersey City housing next if you have anything about them!!

[@kielhall8363]

Woo My home town Brick City thank you all these years some still look like that empty lots in the central ward

[@D3P.17]

Although the age of high rise p’s has passed, Newark is still absolutely wild in most spots! The housing authority knocked down most of the high rises and built low rise p’s to replace them. Trust me when I tell you, the only reason they did away with the high rises is because they give off a vibe of slums, ghettos, and crime to the average Newark or Essex county resident. They also deter potential new residents from wanting to move to Newark. Politicians figured out that if they built low rise p’s all over the city in place of the high rises, they will be able to make a dent in the housing problem while not actually having to solve any of the real issues plaguing Newark public housing and the overwhelming majority of Newark’s neighborhoods such as crime, horrid living conditions, and most of the exact same issues that the high rises had! I’m in Newark every day and can confirm that the low rise spots are wild right now!

[@Rundmc40]

New community

[@D3P.17]

@@Rundmc40 14th & Hayes - the Desert! 🏜 It honestly hasn’t been the same since they indicted Hayes and took down that whole squad a year or 2 ago

[@user-gg9fp1fh5u]

I’m pretty sure shit is wild because of the council persons overseeing the community to make it safe and livable haven’t been able to do a quality job because of the corruption and kick backs they get keeping the community poor and crime ridden so the bureaucracy In place continues to fill the prisons with new arrivals so the system continues to run on the backs of the poor and minority people of society 🤬😩🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

[@D3P.17]

@@user-gg9fp1fh5u it’s not just Newark dealing with that. Most impoverished cities struggle with those exact same political problems. Quite frankly, most cities and towns in America, regardless of socioeconomic status deal with government corruption. I could easily name a few wealthy NJ towns off the top of my head that are plagued with government corruption. Newark’s problems run deeper than just government corruption but I certainly agree, it’s definitely preventing the city from making positive changes that are entirely possible to implement.

[@user-gg9fp1fh5u]

@@D3P.17 well I’m sure kids from Westfield vs kids from Newark aren’t going from kindergarten to the prison system at 18. The kids from Westfield their parents pay more taxes for the municipality’s of their area vs kids parents of Newark who pay with the lives of their children to the penal system. They keep the poor and disadvantaged for a reason poor so they can keep the prisons full to keep the money rolling in to build more prisons and less money towards schools and after school recreations to deter kids from a life of crime and drugs🤨

[@traceyscott909]

I miss the "Tony Brown Journal" news shows on channels 13, 31, and 50 in the NY/NJ area television and wish shows like his was around today. Thumbs Up.

[@guesswhoscomingtoyoutube]

yea he was wayyyyyyyy ahead of his time

[@traceyscott909]

@@guesswhoscomingtoyoutube Exactly! Respect to you.

[@guesswhoscomingtoyoutube]

@@traceyscott909 I watched his show up until the last episode. The only thing he got wrong was Y2K but if you look back at it it made a lot of sense. But everything else that was going on in this country he was spot on my mother turned me on to him God rest her soul

[@traceyscott909]

@@guesswhoscomingtoyoutube I caught some of the last episodes as well. Then the television stations began to pull back on his show.

[@RobertaFierro-mc1ub]

He was Straight Up.

[@sonofsolomon7652]

FYI, this project was never built. Newark Housing Authority was ran by the Jersey mob as well as the construction industry. The Italians were against it so Kawaida Towers which The Noble Prize Laureate Amiri Baraka aka Leroy Jones lead in its planning. His son Ras Baraka became the Mayor of Newark in 2014. The Kawaida Towers would have been bedlam if they didn’t provide 24 hrs security for the residents. 1973 Newark had many many public housing projects that were becoming crime ridden and dangerous. In the beginning it wasn’t easy getting into the project. Whites lived there and it was supported by the government and polices. When white flight hit Newark so did the government support and the projects became no go zones. Prince Street was probably the most notorious. That was was only one project out of about 12 locations that all became very bad places if you weren’t from there. And that is the story of the projects the USA. Some of the worst projects were in St Louis and Chicago. They did not work because security didn’t exist. When we plan any housing on our own as black people we have to have our own police force to uphold the quality of life. It can be done but we have to do it not the government because they won’t. And that’s the lesson of the PJ’s, USA.

[@louis-vd3ur]

Housing projects are for communist-socialists which Italians and other ethnic Catholics were encouraged to be to move ahead in capitalism when protestants didn't want them as apart of the middle class. Housing projects demoralize man's inherent quest for private property and cause him to see his fellow man as either oppressor or oppressed. The women chanting against the building project were chanting lock up the negroes making a point that they would rather see us locked up than given treatment as human beings needing basics in life. Most surely these women lived in poverty that they could never work their way out of and had been demoralized by it. Disgusting. If living in a project is our only way of survival there is something very wrong with society.

[@raskltube]

Newark, the Detroit of the tri state

[@travelandeats8518]

Camden?

[@tunedtfin917]

Newark the Chicago, , Camden the St Louis, Atlantic City is the Detroit,Trenton is the Cleveland, Paterson is the Cincinnati, Cumberland County is the Dirty South, and Jersey City is New York at this point

[@kingbiggz1435]

& Staten Island is jersey at this point , y’all trying make jersey the baby to things , nah we ain’t never claimed ..they’re baby Jersey .. jersey has always been jersey .

[@tenhebrewexecutioners341]

The mayor is involved with the BLOODS clean that up & maybe you'll have a chance

[@1800BrickCity]

Newark and Detroit nothing alike

[@thinblacknoodles]

Watching these docs back to back in the rabbit hole I go...😳🧐🤪

[@KOVIDGOON]

Dirty Jerz 🔥

[@lesterdiamond6190]

watching these videos makes me realize just how wealthy everyone I grew up with really was. Never wanted for work, for cars, college/uni, nice homes, vacations, nice guns, boats, etc etc. Some of my friends own their own airplanes these days. When i was a kid we never even knew people lived in communities like this. I think i was about 13 before i even saw an adult black man in the flesh. Before then it was just Black Actors and Comedians on TV. That's how white Western Canada was back in the early 1970s.

[@robertwalker7010]

Yeah you were probably one of those Italians who chased me off Bloomfield Avenue. Later when I got older I was packing my 22. When I went to Bloomfield as to catch the bus to work. We’ve come a long way still have ways to go if they don’t destroy this planet.

[@lesterdiamond6190]

@Donnell Okafor my aunts and uncles mostly lived on farms and had herds of cattle, horses to ride, creeks to swim in, rifle ranges, old trucks to learn to drive, it was a lot of fun. There was no crime back in those days. Crime was somebody getting a DUI. We just played hockey, went to school, and went camping.

[@scottmartin7042]

Lol. I'm a white dude that grew up 5 mins from where most of this video was shot and your upbringing is alien to me. Newark is a tough place to grow up for sure but I wouldn't have it any other way.

[@mocancer8485]

@@robertwalker7010 he lived in 🇨🇦

[@TheHollywoodList]

@@scottmartin7042 I lived in Newark in Early 2010 before moving to Los Angeles....THIS IS NOT ALIEN its the AFTER PRODUCT lol Anyone standing up and blocking housing for someone else way of well being is just SAD.

[@jonest.v9664]

I'm 33 was raised in Grafton ave projects. Love to see how my city look before I was born in 1988

[@jamalmccoy1982]

Hezakya thanks for taking me down memory lane in my city. ...I was born in 1971 about the same time I was only 2 in 1973 but I enjoyed the documentary on my city in that era and would love to see more. ....

[@mocancer8485]

Happy 50th king jamal..bless you KING

[@ccth22]

Wow this brings back memories. The Elks home on Clinton ave, KFC@ Clinton & High st.it had a black Col.Sanders, Branford theater and and breakfast @Ms. D’s.

[@ashley101verve]

I love your channel you post old documentaries and footage and old school rap music in the beginning of the videos. I’m a total retrophiliac!

[@JamesSmith-si7ts]

If u find a good downtown Newark one form the 60s or any year please post. Best youtube channel

[@vladimirputinforUSA]

New Jersey Drive!!! Newark is the capital of Auto thief, to this day it still is

[@jihadsearcy4539]

Junior depina facts Im a Newark baby

[@amariritchards4775]

WORD

[@droop_973newark_nj3]

I’m one of those ran up the statistic in car theft 🤫

[@jihadsearcy4539]

Droop_973 thats why I said that I played my part to most of us Newark baby's did sad to say but true is all hell

[@jihadsearcy4539]

@@droop_973newark_nj3 facts same here

[@moth450]

We always chanting. And marching. When we going to see it don't work

[@cedricliggins7528]

You are so right. All that noise those kids are making is embarrassing. All that marching for another tower of bricks. Kawaida may as well be Wakanda.

[@OhSoCarmen]

Exactly. Marching and chanting instead of making moves and evolving.

[@josiahgreen242]

Frank Lucas’s team is somewhere here cuttin blue magic

[@yahmookbenayah207]

I was born and raised there I love my city!!!

[@RazPerignon]

Where does he dig up all this footage?

[@AmericanMayan]

🤔

[@BaneMightarachi60]

“I can’t forget New Jersey “ Newark Brick city . I live here now .. salute to all my Jersey heads on here !!!

[@chillb_igotthis]

Shout out to my hometown

[@roytschaefer3518]

Banger 🔊

[@DaveyG68]

This channel is excellent. Thank you.

[@mayam6196]

I'm born and Raise in Newark yea an 70's when there are Revolutions took place

[@thebluesandothercolors6602]

I'm an architecture grad. The concept of the "modern residential tower" was espoused by a French architect known as LeCorbursier. In some ways, he was a talented designer, as a thinker, and in terms of his grasp of the interconnection of economics, democracy, and urban planning, he was one of the greatest imbeciles of the 20th century.

[@Poppaea-Sabina]

The lounge chair guy.

[@LMB222]

Yes, I don't understand why LeCorbusier (who was born in Lausanne btw) is even talked about in the 2020's. He did way more damage than good.

[@thebluesandothercolors6602]

@@jefftothelefttWell, firstly, hundreds of small and locally-owned businesses had to be driven out and the infrastructure that supported them razed along with dozens of existing neighborhoods in order for these units to be built.

[@robmarsh6025]

This content creator was like me when I was a shorty on a Sunday watching tony brown journals, PBS specials, 60 mins, fox 5 news with Bill Mccrary and Like it is with Pops. Stone cold hyped after watching Saturday's evening cinema on channel 5 with all the Kung Fu movies!!😎🎯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@colinhalliley111]

We had Say Brother in the Boston area.

[@floridagator1765]

I was in the same lane growing up.

[@mocancer8485]

@@colinhalliley111 617 stand up...you in Roxbury fam?9

[@colinhalliley111]

@@mocancer8485 New Bedford . The Black Panthers from here were on Say Brother back in 68 or 69.

[@lashawnamoore8374]

Forever Loving my hometown, Born and Raised. Rest in peace to the late great writer, Poet, teacher and activist Imamu Amiri Baraka ❤....legendary!

[@rasbo4317]

If you left Newark in the 80's Newark looks different all the high rises are gone accept senior citizen building. I own a home where hayes homes use to sit.

[@omarstephen6658]

If its not too much of a hassle, can you name a few of these high rises? I’m 43, and i grew up in Irvington and Newark. Moved from NY to Irvington at 8 in ‘88. It seems like i learn about new (or old) homes/housing from Newark’s yesteryear everyday. Newark had alot of public housing.

[@rasbo4317]

@@omarstephen6658 Prince Street,Grafton Ave projects,7th Ave projects,

[@Kamrose1k]

It’s crazy how his son became Newarks mayor

[@AmericanMayan]

Not crazy. Planned.

[@spin230]

Tical. Keep up the good work! Rip odb

[@auhd3190]

Those same buildings that they were protesting for are presently in the process of being torn down in the weequahic section in 2021. All the way from then to now no ground gained, just circular talk from polititions. While we get tricked of financial aid and resources.. Great video Bro, my home Essex county there is so much buetiy there in the midst of poverty

[@006ahenry]

Im From Union county. Just returned from a visit. And yes there is definitely so much beauty in the areas. From true gritty city to quaint little small towns. I like the train art the most.

[@DJaySplitSecond]

Wow my auntie lived in those projects in the 70’s and all I remember are the cops on the horses

[@Cynthia-fx4we]

In 1973, l was 13 years old, and l didn't know anything about the projects, and the problems that plagued them. I lived there until l went to college out of state in 1979. Life was good for me in the city of Newark.❤

[@KevinHall-yj9zc]

My dad was the mail man of 7 th ave projects ! Wallace berry we lived in building 2 on the 2 nd floor.

[@Cynthia-fx4we]

The projects were not the problem, it was the behavior of the residents, and how they lived! The same mentality that destroyed the projects is the same mentality that has destroyed all of the apartment buildings along the front side of Weequahic Park. The projects were torn down, and they sent most the residents over there with vouchers. They would never be able to afford those apartments without assistance. It got so bad in Carmel Towers that HUD wouldn't fund the building anymore, and they shut it down. In the 60s and early 70s this was a beautiful building. Once the Carmel Towers are renovated they are planning to rent to people who are in the work-force. Features of the new renovation will include an expanded lobby, seating lounge, entertainment and party room, a lap pool, fitness room, gym, roof deck, and community garden. The cost for the renovation will be $35 million.

[@blueoak5262]

I heard about places like Baxter Terrace, Prince Street, and Columbus Homes but never been to any of these places but I heard that they were pretty rough and unsafe to be around like some projects that are still standing today in the area.

[@alpizzle2963]

Scudda PJs was the first to go was closed by 81 and tore down in 87.

[@sheedbrickcity3631]

Facts

[@alpizzle2963]

​@@jefftotheleftt what lies did I post tho?

[@colinhalliley111]

Marvelous Marvin Hagler moved from Newark to Brockton, Ma.

[@pharaohsanders2108]

He was from Prince Street right....or was it Hayes Homes

[@colinhalliley111]

@@pharaohsanders2108 I am not sure.

[@pharaohsanders2108]

@@colinhalliley111 if my memory is correct I believe its Prince Street projects...

[@jamalmccoy1982]

@@pharaohsanders2108 marvelous marvin Hagler was from Hayes homes projects. ....

[@pharaohsanders2108]

@@jamalmccoy1982 I asked my homie Bern from Hayes Homes and he confirmed it for me a week or so ago...thanx for posting it tho

[@brianhardy2502]

The racism in this clip is unbelievable! You would think this is Mississippi not New Jersey! In regards to the projects old heads in their 50's or better like me remember all the PJ'S! Scudda! Hayes! Prince St! Columbus! Little Bricks! Baxter! Seth Joyner! Dayton St! Etc! And look around and can't believe how different it now looks with them all torn down! And we also remember all the violence! Not saying Newark don't still have challenges! But young people have no idea about the level of murder and mayhem that occurred where all they've ever known as an empty lot! It's gotten better there! Believe me!👍💪👊💣💥💢💯💯💯💯💯

[@TheImvaltor]

Facts!!!!

[@JustBree716]

They were probably worse upstate. I'm from upstate NY and grew up in the 80s and my brother used to get taunted by white folks when riding the cheese bus

[@gwenstewart4727]

Home Sweet Home I will always love my city NEWARK STRONG

[@user-ob6tl8sx6r]

Classic brick city early 70s!!!

[@Defender78]

25:16 Cathedral Basilica of The Sacred Heart, 89 Ridge Street, Newark nj

[@jaycostewart8]

The method man tune on the intro is serious..🔥🔥💯👏🏾👏🏾

[@bobbyg433]

Can't blame them for not wanting projects built in their neighborhood

[@Detroittruckdoctor55]

Well now they accept housing vouchers everywhere.

[@coast2coastsurfingdesigner970]

PJ's was built or requested by local citizens it was actually what it sounds like a project done by the government FHA, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae Urban Development Housing Authority guilded by the Affair Housing Act. In which done the opposite of what the people believed. It was an experiment to see what will happen when all resources are removed from any given environment of people. Warfare in it's citizens. These people was forced to take part in this projects with little wage jobs, poor education, unfair banking practices. Is a one bed room in the PJ's costed 11x as much as a good home. If you look at shopping, food, clothes everyday goods and services it wants available in them local communities so you have to bus out some how. The cost of living to be a coloured folks was the highest around no matter where they lived. Look at the conditions but should've been living in plush. Soyling green check out. It's a entire system of abuse the African American must get from under an Everytime they do it's someone right their trying to do the opposite. Learning why things are the why they appear to be will make understanding them a little easier an may help to produce a great solution like higher wages so people can afford to live above COLA cost of living adjustment

[@garyflythe1362]

Yes the idea of the project is poorly conceived but when you have it poorly run and organize that was the problem if you watch the documentary they had one police officer one and that's not forget the racism. Old Anthony imperial North North racist bastard I used to mess with him when he used to come up to Pathmark when my mother working Bloomfield one of your good old boys from North North into Bloomfield oh should I say Goodfellas

[@bobbyg433]

@@coast2coastsurfingdesigner970 or maybe if 75% of black fathers didn't abandon their families it might help too.

[@AmericanMayan]

@@bobbyg433 maybe if they recognize they were immigrants and slaves in the first place from Europe they wouldn't have been so entitled. This is not their land today or yesterday

[@TomFoti]

Thanks for posting. Found out some things I didn't know. I'm from that area.

[@strechemall]

I don't know much about Newark but what I do kno is that them Italians absolutely did NOT fw blacks, seem like it was on sight back then.

[@ironlionmike]

Yeah most of the police force was Italian too.

[@strechemall]

@@ironlionmike this doc made me want to rewatch the Sopranos ngl lol 😆

[@dominickmilano4858]

I'm from Newark, and you are right, you don't know shit about Newark

[@lexhashim8671]

Hidden Gem 💎💎💎

[@r.pres.4121]

It doesn’t matter what type of building design is used in public housing because these housing projects ended up being glorified holding tanks for the poorest of the poor and they were allowed to deteriorate into unlivable decrepit slums. Public housing whether it is high rise apartment towers, mid rise walk ups or low rise row houses and townhouses has been a costly and abject failure. No preventative maintenance and no concern for the poor people who have no choice but to live in these substandard housing units.

[@Myopinionmattersthemost]

Not true we have subsidize apartment complexes in San Diego and folks arent treating them poorly like they do on the East Coast or even LA.

[@gabriella1724]

973 stand up !

[@thegraciousfundamentalists6146]

Lol... He said "we cannot accept collect calls"... 🤷🏿‍♂️🤣

[@27spina27]

The towers did get built.. what do u think it looks like now!!🤔🤔

[@funkoff5]

are they still there?

[@TonyVerrazano]

I just read an article that says they were never built. Current mayor Ras Baraka (son of the elder Baraka in this video) just re-announced the construction of Kawaida towers in March 2021.

[@973newarkavelli9]

They tore down most of the projects but that lead to drug dealers and gangs everywhere now

[@bslorbust]

@@funkoff5 most of the high rises were torn down . They were a haven for drugs. Only 1 remain. That's 440 Washington st. It's a a shame because those buildings weer beautiful and well constructed

[@thejerseyj9422]

The towers did NOT get built. Research it, if you're not from Newark don't comment on what you don't know.

[@seabrook1976]

I hope your channel blows up. This is historical, yet relevant and topical.

[@theOmniscienTist]

The Mef is a dope touch.Genius

[@jamesjones2173]

I was born in 1976.I had heard Newark was real bad in the 70s

[@robertortiz8540]

I was 16 years old in 1976.

[@jamesjones2173]

@@robertortiz8540 how was newark in the 70s

[@timadams9430]

I was born in 76 as well. Columbus Hospital

[@jamesjones2173]

@@timadams9430 I was born .St Michel hospital on central avenue in 76

[@edwinsalau150]

You are right! That assemblyman Tony had the worst attendance record in Trenton history! He got and assemblyman with a less than honorable discharge from the Marine Corps! When I was a sergeant I had a shooting at ninth Avenue and ninth Street three people shot on three different corners. I was by myself. He rolled up with his goons and his black Cadillac jump back in and took off! That’s the kind of person he was.The only time I ever met him.

[@jamespisano2958]

The old first ward!!! Sad what it has become

[@jdoggs08753]

Great history of our beloved city

[@cindynj]

Good work!!

[@curtis8954]

new jersey has always been crooked, with mafia etc...

[@brendagreen709]

This is quite interesting...the film shows empty land through out the city.....much needed housing for so many of those in need. So why try to build in an area so far away from black communities? The options to build and expand seem to be endless.....why not take the opportunity to build big and give hope to those who truly deserved a chance to have a decent home. Was this a publicical stunt? Did they try to build this in any other part of the city?

[@thephoenix2176]

Wow this is Jersey? Who would have thought?

[@jacquelinepeoples379]

I am not in love with Newark it’s full of Corruption!

[@pedrohernandez2409]

BRICK CITY CENTRAL WARD REPRESENTOR 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 LOVE MY CITY💯

[@sheedbrickcity3631]

Word mahamad and prince homie

[@jamespisano2958]

Towers ruined the old neighborhood!

[@onice33]

"Urban Renewal or Black Removal" In 2021, it is still going on. This was 1973, and to think in 48 yrs later this is still practiced.. I hate it here in Amerikkka!!!

[@Hilder78]

If you want to know who was right and who was wrong. The central ward of Newark is the destitute to this day.

[@brianhardy2502]

@Sam What cities like Newark and Chicago did was all about cosmetics! When they decided to build them they wanted it to LOOK like they cared about black and Spanish people having somewhere to live but in all actuality they were one giant excuse for housing discrimination! As in "there is plenty if room over there! Nobody is denying them housing! Etc. Plus it was like being in a fish bowl! Want to mess with/harass/find the latest "you fit the description"? Come on down to the projects! They ALL right here! Police loved it! But during the riots they saw (and someone said above) the projects were like forts! And it took the national guard/us army to penetrate them! I know! My aunt stayed up in Hayes and had cousins in Scudder and Prince St. They had all kinds of "fun" stories to tell me about little kids getting shot in the forehead by army snipers for the "crime" of looking out the window while helicopters roared overhead and army troop carriers flew around the parking lots bellowing commands to go inside on bullhorns! These kids WERE inside! But being kids they were curious/hard headed and just wanted to see! 🤔Anyway. Flash forward to the 70's and 80's and they WERE forts! Couldn't be "policed" AKA Victimized so to "Look" like they were being "tough" on crime (notice a pattern here?) they tore the projects down! But things got worse! Or at best stayed the same! Why? Here's why! As any cop on the job 2 weeks would know the people getting money in the P's are not gonna be like "Oh well! They knocked down the P's! Time to clean up my act! Go to college! Get a degree and go on the straight and narrow! (NOT alone! Unless things like structural, institutional and economic racism AKA a damn job with a living wage aren't addressed AT THE SAME TIME ANYWAY!) HELL NO! They gonna keep doing what they was doing! Problem is it's people already doing that outside where the projects was! So.....BOOM you guessed it! We gotta shoot it/fight it out! And, since they have no other way of eating, it's a fight for life and death! The cops and politicians knew this going in! For Christ sakes it was a whole yearlong or 2 episodes on the wire! Once again, like when they was built, projects whether going up! Or going down causing more violence! Because the buildings alone weren't the problem in the first place! They were just being used as scapegoats! It doesn't matter to us whether friends or family get shot get shot in a project hallway or in front of the barber shop! Or those same friends and family get strung out on drugs sold on the 7th floor or out of the window of an Acura with smoked out windows in the parking lot of a closed down dry cleaners! Its STILL happening! Tearing down one kind of building won't help! It just moves the problem somewhere else that is "convenient" while gentrification (a new word for urban renewal) can occur and say a college can be built without "offending" the people building it and going there! Shouts to Hayes, Scudder, Prince St, Lil Bricks, Seth Joyner, Dayton st, Baxter, Grafton, Brick towers Columbus and any other projects I neglected to mention! You'll wasn't the problem man!👍👊💪🖤💯💯💯💯🏭

[@quincyhicks7045]

Tical....plus this video..time machine n action.

[@judahslion5611]

Kya, what did you think about that recent Redman vs. Method Man "battle"? Did you watch it?

[@cedricliggins7528]

Back in the day. I miss the likes of Tony Brown. Journalism today is garbage

[@kennymcbair7323]

Bergen st , NyE AvE , South Orange, RahWay Illas , 5th Ward, Hillside, Pershine AvE. hooping All-Day ! Tape on the Handle

[@energyasylum997]

Hezakya Newz Rules!!!!

[@PhilMiCoochie]

Song? Isnt it off Tical?

[@HezakyaNewz]

Yep...My thang in action...TICAL..1994

[@Lewthegod]

Jersey

[@nelsonnunez7149]

Still happening today

[@bonniedrasco8166]

Nice Meth tune but the brick city is Redman’s home!

[@ganaemceachern1283]

Yesssssss I Remember when I lived in BAXTER TERRACE AND RED MAN WAS MY FAVORITE RAPPER BACK THEN 93 ( HOW TO ROLL A BLUNT ) . I GREW UP IN PATERSON. BUT I LIVED IN NEWARK AND EAST ORANGE IM 49 NOW. MISSED THOSE DAYS. I STILL REMEMBER WHEN THE MOVIE NEW JERSEY DRIVE CAME OUT 😁🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@michalaleskandr3985]

Missed opportunity to use Redman, The Lords of the Underground, or Naughty by Nature in the beginning. Personally, I'd have used "Ghetto Bastard" by Naughty!

[@Supajoc-eo7ib]

I'm glad times have changed. They are not great but better than it was back then

[@feleciaclemons5074]

Aye!! That's my jam!!!✌🏾

[@TrayfingerWayne]

Can you do one on Fannie Lou hammer

[@BrandyTexas214]

I grew up in the 90’s in a small town in Kansas. We didn’t have locks on our doors til I was 17..

[@thazelwood6996]

Yeh that’s the The real Brick City , Method was a on point💥💥💥💥