Podcasts about queensbridge houses

Queensbridge Houses, named after the Queensboro Bridge and known simply as “Queensbridge,” “The Bridge,” or “QB,” is the largest housing project in New York City and the largest in North America. The Queensbridge Houses were once at the center of the rap universe in North America from 1980-1990s.  Queens, produced more rap talent than entire cities, states, and regions—Marley Marl, Roxanne Shante, Nas, Mobb Deep along with a hive of gifted MCs and producers emerged from QB. More than a sub-niche of New York boom bap, Queensbridge's sound mirrored life in the projects. The music was violent, claustrophobic, and nihilistic. It was confrontational. That the defining rap beefs of the 1980s (MC Shan vs. KRS-One), 1990s (East Coast vs. West Coast), and 2000s (Nas vs. Jay Z) all involved artists from Queensbridge was no coincidence. Queensbridge rap thumped. It banged.DJ Mike Nick's ... Your Forever DJ has put together his rendition of what Queensbridge and New York City sounded like during the 90' and early 2000's. QueensBridge gave hip hop a wealth of music.QUEENSBRIDGE:"A NEW YORK STATE OF MIND" MIXPresented by: DJ Mike Nick's ... Your Forever DJ

Dem Vinyl Boyz are back diving straight into Nas' debut studio album "Illmatic". This album was released on April 19, 1994, by Columbia Records, produced by DJ Premier, Large Professor, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, L.E.S., and Nas himself. Nas, who was twenty years old when the album was released, focuses on depicting his own experiences, creating highly detailed first-person narratives that deconstruct the troubled life of an inner city teenager. Nas said in an interview in 2001: “When I made Illmatic I was a little kid in Queensbridge trapped in the ghetto. My soul was trapped in Queensbridge projects.” Styled as a hardcore hip hop album, “Illmatic” features internal rhymes and inner-city narratives based on Nas' experiences growing up in the Queensbridge Houses in Queens, New York City. In a 2012 interview, Nas explains what he wants the take away from his album to be, he says "I want you to know who I am: what the streets taste like, feel like, smell like. What the cops talk like, walk like, think like. What crackheads do — I wanted you to smell it, feel it. It was important to me that I told the story that way because I thought that it wouldn't be told if I didn't tell it." The album debuted at number 12 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 63,000 copies in its first week. However, its initial sales fell below expectations and its five singles failed to achieve significant chart success. Despite the album's low initial sales, “Illmatic” received rave reviews from most music critics, who praised its production and Nas' lyricism. Thanks for tuning in to Dem Vinyl Boyz, like and subscribe!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the 96th edition of Free City Radio you can listen to a conversation with community organizer Sasha Wijeyeratne speaking on organizing against Amazon pushing gentrification in Queens. Sasha speaks about the broad community coalition in Queens that successfully fought off the push by Amazon corporation to open the H2Q headquarters in Queens. Specifically in this exchange Sasha speaks about why the community organization, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, which is very rooted in Asian residents within the Queensbridge Houses social housing complex, was specifically campaigning against Amazon H2Q due to the ways that the construction of an Amazon corporate logistics operational headquarters in Queens, that was going to be build right beside the Queensbridge Houses social housing project, would have driven a major wave of gentrification. This interview series was recorded with support from the McGill Corporate Accountability Project, for broadcast on @radiockut at 90.3fm For more information on CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities visit : https://caaav.org Free City Radio broadcasts on Wednesdays at 11am on @radiockut and two new episodes are shared each week through the Free City Radio podcast. Music on this edition is an excerpt of "Birds in Trio" a duet between Lori Goldston and Stefan @spirodon Christoff recently released on Dasa Tapes, full info : https://dasatapes.bandcamp.com/album/punk-equinox

During the pandemic, the nonprofit Josephine Herrick Project provided free photography classes to longtime women residents of Queensbridge Houses, in Long Island City. The project and its impact is illustrated in the film, "The Way I See Now," presented by online by Queens Theatre. JHP Executive Director Miriam Leuchter talks about the film's photographers, expansion of the project, and what makes a good photo. For more, visit jhproject.org and to see the film, visit queentheater.org.

During the pandemic, the nonprofit Josephine Herrick Project provided free photography classes to longtime women residents of Queensbridge Houses, in Long Island City. The project and its impact is illustrated in the film, "The Way I See Now," presented by online by Queens Theatre. JHP Executive Director Miriam Leuchter talks about the film’s photographers, expansion of the project, and what makes a good photo. For more, visit jhproject.org and to see the film, visit queentheater.org.

THE HISTORY OF HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS QUEENSBRIDGE AND QUEENS WEST 2-10-2018 THIS EPISODE WE LOOK AT THE HISTORY QUEENSBRIDGE AND QUEENS WEST https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensbridge_Houses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_West PICTURES BY GOOGLE IMAGES --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thequeensnewyorker/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thequeensnewyorker/support

This week’s guest is a bit of a departure for us. We don’t usually interview political candidates but Lauren Ashcraft is a stand-up comedian, a Democratic Socialist, and an ardent proponent of MMT, so how could we resist? She was introduced to us by our friend Andrés Bernal, who must have recognized how well all these attributes would serve her in the US Congress. When someone’s convictions are born of their lived experiences, the roots run deep. Corporate greed literally killed her grandfather who was a victim of a notorious coal mining accident. Her grandmother could not have survived without Social Security. Ironically Lauren became radicalized from working in the belly of the capitalist beast. She worked for one of the huge financial institutions where she received daily messages about profits being down. Staff was constantly being laid off or forced to relocate, at a time when these companies were receiving billions of dollars in incentives. And somehow the compensation to those at the very top continued to grow. She was witnessing the “socialism at the top, rugged capitalism for the rest of us” that Bernie Sanders talks about. Lauren is running as a Democrat in New York’s 12th Congressional district, challenging incumbent Carolyn Maloney. The district includes some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country (we’ve all heard of NY’s Upper East Side, right?), but also extends to the Queensbridge Houses, the nation’s largest public housing development. Steve and Lauren debate whether it will be possible to change the Democratic Party from within, and agree that it’s really not about Democratic vs Republican. They talk about strategies to continue expanding the movement, breaking away from partisanship, and how the COVID-19 pandemic is shining a light on - and exacerbating - the need for the very policies in Lauren’s platform. There’s much more to her story, including her journey to becoming a stand-up comedian. Let’s just say it began with a Groupon coupon -- you’ll have to listen to the episode to hear the rest. Lauren Ashcraft is a candidate for New York’s 12th Congressional District. She has been endorsed by Brand New Congress, Marianne Williamson, and Shahid Buttar, among others. https://laurenashcraft.com/ @voteAshcraft on Twitter

This episode is all about the Queensbridge Houses and their influence on Hip-hop

As a young'n this Queensbridge product ran tournaments in his neighborhood park using the spaces in-between the monkey bars as baskets. A raw talent he grew and developed into a low post barbarian, unstoppable in his pursuit of wiping the glass clean and getting his text book put backs. The bulk of his playing days were spent on the streetball circuit where he earned the nickname "Da Guardian". When his brother made it to the league, the family headed west to the great state of Indiana, where he found himself practicing with NBA pros giving them the business (his brother included). Throughout, he's struggled with depression and has been in some dark places, but with the help of his bride to be and the love of his family he's been able to work through terrible times to get himself to a happier place. On this episode of Dribble N' Dimes, It's a pleasure to share the basketball journey of Daniel Artest. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast and tell a friend! Mix & Mastering courtesy of DJ Trends (https://soundcloud.com/djtrends) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dribblendimes/support

    Jevan Hutson: How Racism in Online Dating Affects Economic Opportunities (Ep. 176) Jevan Hutson joined Joe Miller to talk about how racism in online dating affects economic opportunities. Bio Jevan Hutson (@jevanhutson) is a Gregoire Fellow at the University of Washington School of Law, where he researches technology policy, social computing, surveillance and privacy, and data ethics, and is an editor for the Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts. Jevan currently works for the Technology & Liberty Project of the ACLU of Washington, where he advocates for algorithmic accountability in government and restrictions on government use facial recognition technologies. He previously worked for Nintendo of America, Miller Nash Graham & Dunn, and Boeing. Jevan holds an MPS in Information Science and a BA in History of Art & Visual Studies from Cornell University, where he was a Research Assistant in the Social Computing Lab and Social Media Lab. Resources What Dating Apps are doing to Fight Bias by Jevan Hutson (Axios, 2019) Debiasing Desire: Addressing Bias and Discrimination on Intimate Platforms by Jevan Hutson, Jessie G. Taft, et al. (University of Washington School of Law, 2018) Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media by Tarleton Gillespie News Roundup US took down Russian troll factory during 2018 election Several U.S. officials said last week that they blocked the Internet Research Agency’s internet access as the Russian troll factory attempted to interfere with last year’s midterms. The Washington Post reports the operation was the first of its kind after the president and Congress bolstered cybercommand last year. Donald Trump approved the operation.  YouTube disables comments on videos featuring minors YouTube has disabled comments on videos that include minors under age 18. The move comes after pedophiles were lurking in comment sections directing users on where to access suggestive images of children. FTC wins fraud case against company that hired fake Amazon reviewers The Federal Trade Commission has won a case against Cure Encapsulations for paying a third party to write Amazon reviews of a supplement called garcinia cambogia. The drug is known to cause acute liver failure. It’s the first-evern case of its kind. Among other reviews, fake reviewers wrote that the supplement “literally stops fat from forming” rated it an average 4.3 out of 5 stars. Cure Encapulastions is now liable to pay a $12.8 million fine. FTC fines TikTok The Federal Trade Commission has fined China-based social media company TikTok $5.7 million because before it merged with Musical.ly, Musical.ly illegally collected the names, emails, pictures and location data of kids under 13. The U.S. hasn’t fined TikTok for anything that happened after the merger. TikTok has over 1 billion downloads – 100 million here in the U.S. – and is seen by many experts as legit Facebook rival. California AG Becerra looks to expand privacy California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is looking to improve his state’s privacy law that’s set to take effect next year by allowing private individuals to sue companies for damages. The current bill as written allows individuals to take legal action only after giving companies 30 days to correct violations. Nevada Sen. Cortez Masto takes on racial ad targeting Catherine Cortez Masto -- the Democratic Senator from Nevada -- is taking on racial ad targeting in a new bill that prohibits companies like Facebook from targeting on the basis of race. Propublica found back in 2016 that Facebook allows advertisers to exclude racial groups from certain campaigns—a practice which continued at least until the end of 2017. Twitter suspends Jacob Wohl Twitter suspended far-right activist Jacob Wohl for allegedly attempting to influence the 2020 presidential election by creating fake accounts purporting to support divisive candidates like Howard Schultz. Previously, USA Today had quoted Wohl as saying that he was planning to create “enormous left-wing online properties”. Wohl says it was just an “intellectual exercise”.  New FTC monopoly task force The Federal Trade Commission has established a new task force designed to look specifically at tech sector monopolies. The task force will boast 17 staff attorneys and be based in the competition bureau. Airline seatback monitors have cameras Some passengers on a Singapore Airlines flight shared a viral video showing the seatback video monitors in front of them had cameras in side them. Another passenger shared a picture of a similar camera he found on an American airlines flight. United and Delta followed up saying their screens also contain cameras. All four airlines say the manufacturer ships that screens that way for potential future uses, but that currently the cameras are disabled.  Currently. One of the manufacturers—Panasonic—told BuzzFeed that it would never activate the cameras without consent from the airline.   New York governor Cuomo wants Amazon back So as you know, Amazon backed out of plans to build out one of its new headquarters locations in Long Island City.   And now, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is like [new edition clip] [PAUSE] Love is HARD! [PAUSE] Representatives from some 70 powerful New York organizations took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to publish an open letter to Amazon Founder & CEO Jeff Bezos. Signatories included National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial and the NAACP’s New York State Conference and Astoria Chapter and the Presidents of the Queensbridge Houses and Astoria Houses Tenants Associations—corporate signatories included Ken Chenault and others. The State University of New York’s Chancellor also signed the letter, as did the Chancellor Designee of the City University of New York and the President of LaGuardia Community College. Several unions also signed. In the letter, the signatories characterized the public debate that followed the announcement as “strident”. It’s pretty hard to pass up an opportunity to add your name to a full-page letter in the New York Times. Whether anyone has carefully evaluated the upsides of the deal for every day New Yorkers isn’t clear. No word yet from Amazon. Events of Note House Energy & Commerce Hearing “Inclusion in Tech: How Diversity Benefits all Americans” Wed., 3/6 2019 @ 10:30am 2322 Rayburn Federal Communications Commission “Symposium on Media Diversity” Thurs., 3/7 2019 @ 9AM-5:30PM 445 12th St., SW

This week's episode is a tribute to hip-hop culture in memory of the late Prodigy of Mobb Deep, a hip-hop duo from Queensbridge Houses in New York City. Hip-hop is poetic, soulful, and rich with zeitgeist. I hope this mixtape cracks you open and pulls you deeper into the complex beauty embodying this style of music that originated from inner-city African Americans in the 1970s. Love & Beats, Miss Sabado TRACK LIST: Bound - Ponderosa Twins Plus One (1971) Intro - Das EFX (1995) Shook Ones Pt. II - Mobb Deep (1995) NYC (feat. Jadakiss) - Faith Evans And The Notorious B.I.G. (2017) Wu Wear - Rza ft Method Man & Cappadonna (1996) Black Trump - Cocoa Brovaz feat. Raekwon (1998) If I Was Your Mic (DJ Spinna Remix) - Substantial (2004) Find A Way - J Dilla, A Tribe Called Quest (1998) Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat) - Digable Planets (1993) DJ Premier In Deep Concentration - GANG STARR (1998) Temperature's Rising - Mobb Deep (1995) Star Anis - MF Doom (2003) In Heaven's Home - Prodigy & Roc Marciano (2016) Talk To Strangers - Saul Williams (2004) Genesis - Prodigy (2000) Tha Crossroads - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (1995) I'll Be Missing You (feat. Faith Evans & 112) - Puff Daddy (1995) Life Goes On - 2Pac (1996)

  Raised during the height of New York’s tumultuous drug era, Chaka Adams pulls from her vast array of personal experiences and perceptions in her writing. Dubbed the ‘new face’ of urban literature, her journey began in New York City’s infamous Queensbridge Houses.   Despite witnessing the consequences of a life on the streets, this selfproclaimed hood nerd still found every opportunity to place herself in the heart of them. Although she skated through New York’s magnet school programs for talented and gifted students, the hustle of the streets was what appealed to her the most. By the age of 17, she was a high-school dropout and just another product of her environment.   In 2013, Chaka decided to finally tell her story not only for her but for the younger girls who followed behind. Her debut novel, a fictionalautobiography she now calls, A View of The Bridge caught the literary world by surprise and quickly became a Best Seller. With the release of its follow-up, A View of The Bottom, Chaka is well on her way to solidifying her spot as a voice to be heard.  And this time, there’s no stopping her!   

“Today, many New Yorkers take the FDR to get to La Guardia,” Mason B. Williams jokes in the opening line of his new book City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York (W.W. Norton, 2013) . And, depending on where they start, they pass any number of vital, iconic features in Gotham’s landscape that were built thanks to both men: Carl Schurz Park, the Triborough Bridge, Randall Island’s Stadium, the Astoria Pool, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, William Cullen Bryant High School, the Queensbridge Houses, etc. These public works are the physical legacy of the New Deal, and the legendary partnership between the city’s famous mayor, Fiorella La Guardia, and the state’s former Governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, during the latter’s presidency. That heritage stands everywhere around us, not just in New York but all over the country. Yet, as Williams notes, the history of this paradoxically productive era in America’s past (a stark contrast to politics in the Great Recession) has been “obscured in turns by ideology and neglect.” City of Ambition tells that story with sophistication and verve. It is difficult for any scholar, particularly a junior one, to say something interesting about the New Deal, the Big Bang in modern American political history. But Williams uses this quasi dual-biographical approach to make a point we sometimes forget: that federalism, so often the Achilles heel of reform in the United States, actually lay at the heart of this seminal moment. Washington lacked the operational capacity to administer large-scale programs, and so relied heavily upon municipal governments. Far from a zero-sum game, the growth of federal power “enabled local action.” Heavily researched, ambitiously broad, and finely written, Williams’s book explores a number of other local and national themes, as well. Read and enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Today, many New Yorkers take the FDR to get to La Guardia,” Mason B. Williams jokes in the opening line of his new book City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York (W.W. Norton, 2013) . And, depending on where they start, they pass any number of vital, iconic features in Gotham’s landscape that were built thanks to both men: Carl Schurz Park, the Triborough Bridge, Randall Island’s Stadium, the Astoria Pool, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, William Cullen Bryant High School, the Queensbridge Houses, etc. These public works are the physical legacy of the New Deal, and the legendary partnership between the city’s famous mayor, Fiorella La Guardia, and the state’s former Governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, during the latter’s presidency. That heritage stands everywhere around us, not just in New York but all over the country. Yet, as Williams notes, the history of this paradoxically productive era in America’s past (a stark contrast to politics in the Great Recession) has been “obscured in turns by ideology and neglect.” City of Ambition tells that story with sophistication and verve. It is difficult for any scholar, particularly a junior one, to say something interesting about the New Deal, the Big Bang in modern American political history. But Williams uses this quasi dual-biographical approach to make a point we sometimes forget: that federalism, so often the Achilles heel of reform in the United States, actually lay at the heart of this seminal moment. Washington lacked the operational capacity to administer large-scale programs, and so relied heavily upon municipal governments. Far from a zero-sum game, the growth of federal power “enabled local action.” Heavily researched, ambitiously broad, and finely written, Williams’s book explores a number of other local and national themes, as well. Read and enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Today, many New Yorkers take the FDR to get to La Guardia,” Mason B. Williams jokes in the opening line of his new book City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York (W.W. Norton, 2013) . And, depending on where they start, they pass any number of vital, iconic features in Gotham’s landscape that were built thanks to both men: Carl Schurz Park, the Triborough Bridge, Randall Island’s Stadium, the Astoria Pool, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, William Cullen Bryant High School, the Queensbridge Houses, etc. These public works are the physical legacy of the New Deal, and the legendary partnership between the city’s famous mayor, Fiorella La Guardia, and the state’s former Governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, during the latter’s presidency. That heritage stands everywhere around us, not just in New York but all over the country. Yet, as Williams notes, the history of this paradoxically productive era in America’s past (a stark contrast to politics in the Great Recession) has been “obscured in turns by ideology and neglect.” City of Ambition tells that story with sophistication and verve. It is difficult for any scholar, particularly a junior one, to say something interesting about the New Deal, the Big Bang in modern American political history. But Williams uses this quasi dual-biographical approach to make a point we sometimes forget: that federalism, so often the Achilles heel of reform in the United States, actually lay at the heart of this seminal moment. Washington lacked the operational capacity to administer large-scale programs, and so relied heavily upon municipal governments. Far from a zero-sum game, the growth of federal power “enabled local action.” Heavily researched, ambitiously broad, and finely written, Williams’s book explores a number of other local and national themes, as well. Read and enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices