I Think The Difference Is We Never Felt Warehoused.

Whoopi Goldberg lived in the Chelsea-Elliot Houses, where Maria Cortes now lives.

- Jada Yuan

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I lived there my whole life until I moved to California to get married. Back then, they were newer projects, or they felt newer. My room was in the back, just a bed and a bureau and windows. When I was a kid, the High Line was still being used to transport things through the city, usually at night. That’s what I looked out on. It’s a great place to grow up, because we were outside 98 percent of the time, winter and summer. We all were poor, and we all knew it, but it somehow didn’t really stop us from doing anything.