But the couple's neighbors at the Farragut Houses said the household was hardly a happy one over the next three years.

What is the benefit to the Farragut Houses, right next door?

Stanley, the only child of a single mother, lived in the Farragut Houses in Brooklyn.

Except for a supermarket and a check-cashing store near Farragut Houses, the neighborhood still has no banks or grocery stores.

It was not character that Mr. Greene of Farragut Houses fretted about.

The proposed waterfront development is only one of many changes taking place around Farragut Houses.

A visit by Admiral David Farragut caused the building to be coined "Farragut House".

With financial assistance from her brother George James Jr., assistant superintendent of Farragut Houses in Brooklyn, she sustained the untenanted building for almost 10 years.

The suspect, Elaine Ested, 35 years old, also a resident of the Farragut Houses, was charged yesterday.

"It was either be a drug dealer or play basketball," Barkley said in perhaps an overstatement about the Farragut Houses in Fort Greene.