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Requested move[edit]

Queensbridge → Queensbridge, Queens – to comply with the format for neighborhoods as <neighborhood>, <borough>. ~ trialsanderrors 21:35, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Survey[edit]

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Comment: I have been doing many moves of neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn, appending the borough to the name of the article. I have seen and edited this article several times. The only reason that I hadn't moved it already is that it is more a housing development, rather than a neighborhood. The article refers to Queensbridge repeatedly as a housing complex, and I don't think it ever talks about it as a neighborhood. I will accept the decision of this process, but request that this information be taken into consideration. Alansohn 15:54, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The article calls it a neighborhood. I take it that's an informal term in NYC. I think size alone make it "neighborhoody". No strong opinion otherwise. ~ trialsanderrors 18:07, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Moved. —Nightst a llion (?) 10:46, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Well, this isn't exactly a survey now is it? Since Nightstallion seemed to just go ahead a move it. Queensbridge is not an official "neighborhood". But because it's so huge and houses so many people, it's has come to be considered a neighborhood. If you wrote a letter with the address "Queensbridge, NY", the post office would know exactly where to take it. But again this is unofficial and informal. I think it should not have been moved. MrBlondNYC 09:37, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose AS A FORMER QB RESIDENT...I THINK I SOULD POINT OUT THE FACT THAT QB IS A HOOD...IF U AINT FROM THERE U SHOULDNT TRY N CONSIDER IT AS ANYTHING I NO ASWELL AS EVERYONE ELSE WHO LIVE THERE THAT QB AINT NO EASY GOIN NEIGHBORHOOD EITHER U WITH IT OR U AGAINST IT

Oppose QB is a 'hood for sure. I live there and have my whole life, so i should know and all you peole tlking this and that should come to the 'hhod and see for yourself. QB's no easy place, and it's most certainly a 'neighbourhood' (if not very neighboury), and anyone fron NYC will tell you that.

Abstain What? Anyways. NYCTA neighborhood maps in LIC/Astoria subway stations mark both Queensbridge and Ravenswood (another housing project) as "neighborhoods". Also, there are wikipedia pages for other housing complexes within established neighborhoods such as Edgemere. So I dunno, do whatever. 66.9.126.26 17:25, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support. I wouldn't so much call it a neigborhood and I think that the name of this article should be changed to Queensbridge Houses and have Queensbridge, Queens redirect to Queensbridge Houses. I'd also like to point out that I've neither lived in the projects nor in Queens, so perhaps my opinion's not the greatest to go by.
NewYork1956 23:01, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support The Queensbridge Houses is a LOW INCOME PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECT located in Long Island City, Queens. It should be changed to "Queensbridge Houses"

BTW, the page Edgemere describes the neighborhood of Edgemere located on the Rockaway peninsula (Though now most just consider Edgemere part of Far Rockaway). The Edgemere Houses were named for the neighborhood it is located in. The same goes for Ravenswood, it's the area the project was named after. Wikiwiki718 (talk) 01:05, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Only low income public housing project in NYC to have station named after it?[edit]

"Queensbridge is the only housing complex in New York to have a subway station named after it."

This is false, there is a station in Far Rockaway named after Edgemere Houses, Beach 36th St-Edgemere [1] 66.9.126.26 21:24, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://nymag.com/news/features/40648/index2.html

The Edgemere station is named for the Edgemere section of the Rockaway peninsula not the project. The project is named after the neighborhood. The thing is these days most people just refer to the entire 101st precinct area as Far Rockaway. The train station was built long before the PJ's went up. I think Queensbridge might be the only project in the city with a train station named after it. Wikiwiki718 (talk) 01:15, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Largest low income public housing project?[edit]

This article from New York Magazine claims that the Red Hook housing projects are the largest in the city, contradicting the claim at the top of this article that Queensbridge are the largest housing projects in the US. 208.232.231.130 (talk) 19:43, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Queensbridge is the single most populated project in the country. Red Hook Houses might cover the largest geographical area in NYC for a single housing project. I should also mention there are stretches of projects in different low income neighborhoods across the city, seperately managed but no breaks between them, larger then Queensbridge.

These mega developments are in: Brownsville, the Lower East Side, Soundview, Mott Haven, Melrose, Morrisania, and finally East Harlem. The line of projects in East Harlem is larger even than the Robert Taylor Homes which once stood in Chicago. It's almost a mile long. Wikiwiki718 (talk) 01:15, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Consequences of diversity? Please Explain.[edit]

"By the 1960s, the project was a dream of rich diversity and all the consequences such brings." What the hell does that mean? Is that sarcasm or just saying that it's diverse but the consequences have been mixed?

It means with the diversity came racial tension. Should be simplified. Wikiwiki718 (talk) 01:05, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's one awful sentence. 68.144.184.240 (talk) 06:41, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nore I'snt From Queensbridge[edit]

Noreaga is from LeFrak City, Queens

Not the largest[edit]

queensbridge is not the largest housing project in the US the Robert Taylor homes are —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.58.43.122 (talk) 15:30, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Queensbridge reunion[edit]

Does anyone have the dates of the Queensbridge reunion being held in Queensbridge this year "2008*". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.60.231.2 (talk) 18:10, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Corrections[edit]

Kool G. Rap is not from Queensbridge, he's from Corona, Queens. Lamar Odom is from South Jamaica Queens. The only members of the Juice Crew that are from Queensbridge is MC Shan, Craig G, & Roxanne Shante — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bxdale83 (talk • contribs) 05:35, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Queensbridge.us[edit]

The link at the bottom of the page which is supposed to be the official website for Queensbridge is almost definitely not the official website for Queensbridge. It's formatted like a 2002 HTML website and has all kinds of mildly racist stuff as well as some local Queensbridge conspiracy theories and even criticisms of Bernie Sanders (perhaps the worst transgression). I don't know what it is but I think it's Wikipedia vandalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:183:8102:40BB:B441:CF76:D5E5:B6C6 (talk) 21:50, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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