[1] It was located at 355 North Avenue N.E., between Central Park and Parkway, in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood.
[2] The name came from a neighborhood organization U.-Rescue which stood for "Urban renewal Emergency: Stop, Consider, Understand, Evaluate".
U-Rescue fought for the interests of local residents in the face of massive urban renewal plans after 1965.
Slums areas such as Buttermilk Bottom were razed to make way for urban renewal projects such as Bedford Pine, but in reality very little low income housing was ever built to replace the housing units that were razed.
[3] The Cosby Spear high-rise is located in the middle of what was the U-Rescue Villa complex and remains standing, housing senior citizens.