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View from Williamsburg Bridge

One two the east River Bridges on the Manhattan and the Williamsburg Bridge here you have subway lines going across and I took this picture from a train heading into Brooklyn. The buildings on the right are a city housing project known for drab brown exteriors, cinder block walls and drab brown doorways. One of the dirty little secrets is even though the distribution of people in the projects is supposed to impartial these projects right here which are next to a large areas that has gentrified and are filled with more people for a lack of better words are filled people "who are better screened and vetted out." While there are other projects that are off the beaten path in the far flung parts of Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens whose reputations are so bad I wouldn't walk through them during the day. On the left side you have a style of apartment buildings that were built during the mid 1960's though 1970's which were the last private buildings that were built for the middle class mostly built on the outer edges of the city next to the adjoining counties of Nassau bordering Brooklyn and Queens and Westchester County which is adjacent to the North Bronx.

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Uploaded on March 17, 2025
Taken on March 16, 2025