For a generation, tabloids, television, and Hollywood had defined the public image of New Yorkers who live in the city's 334 housing projects. Focusing on crime, disrepair, and other ills that afflict these islands of red brick, such portrayals ironically had made it all too easy for government to scale back the support these developments had relied on since their birth eight decades previously.  And so conditions worsened further yet, as the buildings tried to soldier on past their useful life, at the time around four hundred thousand tenants.











What if these New Yorkers had the tools and training to document their own lives?

And the opportunity to share the result, beyond the confines of social media?