Sharpton Projects
The Sharpton Projects are a sprawling maze of rat nests and scavenging opportunities, located in sunny Gangland. You can find a wide variety of crafting ingredients here, as well as recipies
What's in Sharpton
There is a Meds vending machine in the 'lobby' area which sells Suture and Trauma kits, as well as an oil drum full of water (and sometimes other things).
Sharpton Projects is riddled with rats of different sizes, the smallest being Scuttling/Little/Tiny rats which pose very little threat, whereas at the opposite end of the spectrum, you have the Giant/Huge/Unusually sized/Mutant rats which are likely to chew Newbies to pieces with ease. In between, you have Large/Tan/Black/White rats, which are manageable, as long as you're wearing enough armor. All the rats, except the smallest will attack you if you move into the room they're in, but they won't attack you immediately upon entering the room you're in, in which case they'll attack semi-randomly.
There are often Access panels which you can find by searching in some areas. If you have fairly high Scavenge skill, or have the Junkrat mutation, and get a message along the lines of "Hmm. You have a hunch there's something here", try searching a couple of times and you should reveal an entrance to a previously inaccessible area (though you have to do this again if you leave and enter the room again).
If your scavenge skill is shit, getting through the Projects is somewhat more difficult as most of the best bits are through access panels found via searching, but there are a couple of tricks you can use to even the odds. The first is to use the 'lmap' command, which will display all passages, including hidden passages and inaccessible rat holes. The other trick is to use the 'look <direction>' command. If you look in a direction where a passage lies hidden, you will receive a message prompting you to search the area. This is also useful for figuring out which passages marked on your 'lmap' are usable, and which are rat holes. All this notwithstanding, it is still difficult to reveal and use hidden passages without at least a modest Scavenge rating, even if you can see where they are.
The Basement
The Basement of Sharpton can be accessed in a number of ways, the easiest of which is searching for a vent in the Maintenance room at the front entrance, then going through the air duct and going down from the fan room. If you've killed any rats, butchering the tails from them is a wise idea, as Chester is in the room beneath the fan room and giving them to him nets you $66 per tail, and often Fat Ratzo will give you packages to deliver to Chester, which earns a solid $300 per package. There are also some valuable diagrams in the filing cabinet in that room.
Rat Nests
This is where having your ass gnawed off a dozen times pays off, there's plenty of semi-valuable loot to be had in Rat's nests, especially $180 Bike chains and Buckey lube. (Although earlier, rats used to be able to pick up items, they don't seem to be able to pick anything up any more. This has it's benefits; you won't see heaps of scrap wood and ashtrays you dropped earlier gravitating in the nests. On the other hand, randomly spawning junk won't turn up in their nests either.)
Products of Scavenging
Weapons:
Electrical Cord Common
Antenna Whip Rare
Ice Pick Rare
Softball Bat Rare
Ammo:
9mm Clip Rare
.44 Speedload Rare
Parts:
Circuit Board Common
Servomotor Common
Keypad/Detonator/Piezoelectric circuits Common
Microprocessor Common
Rusty Metal Spike Common
Rusty Razor Ribbon Common
Ferrule/Blade Fuses Common
Empty Dart Common
Empty Brass Round/Handful of Common
Firearm Assemblies/Parts Common
Small Loudspeaker Common
Microprocessor Common
Short Length of Copper wire Common
Empty Syringe Common
Steel Pipe Cap Common
iJerk Common
Broken LCD Common
O-ring Common
Empty Clip Common
Pile of Scrap Wood Common
Electromagnetic Motor Common
Broken Lead Pipe Common
Condenser Coil Common
Liquid Reservoir Assembly Common
Resistor Uncommon
Relay Uncommon
LED Uncommon
Transistor Uncommon
Handful of Brass Fittings Uncommon
Length of Steel Chain Uncommon
Long/Short Steel Pipes Uncommon
Handful of Empty Shotgun Shells Uncommon
Steel Rod Rare
Length of Springsteel Rare
Nanopacitor Rare
Grindwheel Rare
Plastic Tubing Rare
Reinforced Flex Tube Rare
Bike Chain Rare
Buckey Lube Rare
Brick of Quick-mold Plastic Rare
Old Chainsaw Bladechain Rare
Playstation 5 with Fuckable Breasts Rare
Ancient Tire Rare
Kevlar Strip Rare
Carbon Fiber Panel Rare
Ceramic Plate Rare
Lock Cases of all qualities Rare
Lock Mechanisms of all qualities Rare
Chemicals:
Charcoal Briquette Common
Bag of Saltpeter Uncommon
Stuff:
Can of Spraypaint Extremely Rare (Apartment 306)
Food:
Box of Pocky Rare
Medical:
Suture Kit Uncommon
Medium Trauma Kit Rare
Junk:
Comic Books Common
Wallets Common
Pogs Very Common
White Lighter Uncommon
'Giggle Cream' Spraycan Common
An incomplete list, at best.