99 percent chance they won’t be bringing back old residents no matter what they claim
This gonna be the future for some other projects
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Another gentrifying moment… lower Manhattan projects to be demolished for upgraded condos
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99 percent chance they won’t be bringing back old residents no matter what they claim
This gonna be the future for some other projects
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Well over a half of million people in nyc are under nycha… that’s literally almost the population of Wyoming.. so imagine trying to displace a whole state population, that’s what would happen if they removed all the housing from people under that program
I’m always amazed at how people complain about the concentrated poverty of the projects, but the minute somebody proposes tearing them down, the same people see gentrification. What’s wrong with economic integration? Plus, you’re never going to get maximum city services if nothing but poor people live in the area.
If you know that area it has clubs, lounges, eateries, some nyc sights, and a lot of shopping areas not too far(literally walking distance).. so that area has lots of maximum services. That’s why people are skeptical of them bringing those residents back cause they know they trying to move them out to bring in the rich. Also if you noticed they said a lot of elderly people live in those buildings. So being that you are up there in age imagine if some private company decided to tear up your whole living area to bring in millionaires would you think that was a good idea to displace you?
I aint surprised, arent those the projects right across the street from a prestigious high school??
I see them bringing back most residents and slowly pricing them out tho.. but time would tell...
I see them bringing back most residents and slowly pricing them out tho.. but time would tell...
That area in general is money.. the high line literally a couple of blocks away. Artichoke pizza right up the block as well as a couple of big money clubs, Apple Store not to far and also bunch of high price fashion stores
Are you talking about the former cop that’s the mayor? Nope everybody knew what he was about.. a pig first everything else last
Nycha sold a bunch of their buildings, so unfortunately this is gonna be the fate for the ones that were sold. I feel bad for the elderly that will be displaced because of this
Yep. Me and my boy was just talking about this last night. We was like anything near water probably gonna be bought by some private company than knocked down. We was like them projects behind Lincoln center gonna probably be next. Maybe the other projects on the upper east side on 90 something street and 1st ave. Few other locations near water
You are correct, every building sold was bought by private companies. Nycha got a big bag for every building sold
That's alphabet city?
nah like 25th street. never knew about them until the early 90’s when i met this chick that lived there who started my locs
Ok I know those over there. Just couldn't remember what area they called Chelsea.
Nah this on like 16-19 st… it’s a few blocks away from the high line.. same block as the artichoke pizza.. I forget the exact club that’s literally on the same block as this place
Nah alphabet city is on the lower east side of manhattan… this is on the lower west side.. funny thing is you could take the 14st crosstown bus and it will take you to both parts
It’s still projects all over Manhattan beneath 100 st on the west and east side. Still with a bunch of black and Hispanic people.. lil known fact to a lot of visitors and nyers… but big private companies starting to see the potential of those areas and want in on that land/ property.. especially near the water.. there’s condos near water going for 5-6000 dollars a month.. so seeing these projects where people only paying $400 or less is like nah we got to displace these motherfuckers so we can build 3000 apt /condos complexes and charge 5-6000 a month for each spaceDamn! I had no idea lower Manhattan still had projects! I thought regular folks had been priced out of that part of town decades ago!
Fulton Houses are across the street from my old High School - Humanities,
which was renamed now to Bayard Rustin Educational Complex
Fun fact: that's the school Shawn Wayans went to (same time as me)
and Marlon use to sneak in there to play basketball.
The whole family was raised in those projects too
Side Note - Damn I didn't know they won't be guaranteed a place back there.
That's crazy. This is the only the beginning, projects occupy a LOT of space
throughout the city with some having PRIME real estate.
DOLLARS only makes sense to greedy motherfuckers
VOTE!!!!
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A lot of native New Yorkers are feeling what the native folks from LA/SF are feeling. The property owners are trying to get rid of folks still on cheaper rent. Elder folks are the main ones.
My homie who grew up in LA used to live in the Inglewood neighborhood where the SoFi Stadium. I asked him, where do you displace thousands of people? He said they got push out the city completely.
What about NYC? Where are they pushing the residents too?
Well I have to give a lil credit to law makers.
ANY new building that is build has to have a percentage of units for low income residents.
That's ANY BUILDING. So every new fancy high rise has "poor people" in them
This is just the start. It's going to be the Beginning of the End for NYCHA Folks. NYC and NYCHA have been trying to "Market-Rate" those Projects for years. And now they have the go-ahead to do it.
Once The Highline was built, and Tech companies began buying up office properties in Chelsea, it was only a matter of time. There's no way in Hell Landlords and Real Estate want "Project Folks" in an area that spells Money and (Tourism) Expansion. Especially in that area. Other than the fact that many of these life-long NYCHA residents have been paying next to nothing (in Market terms) for apartments that are at max three bedrooms.
Trust Me. Many of those Elliot Chelsea Houses residents ain't getting into newly built apartments/complexes. They are going to end up having to participate in a lottery which has become the standard method of getting any form of low/middle income housing in this city. Provided they are even picked.
Once The Highline was built, and Tech companies began buying up office properties in Chelsea, it was only a matter of time. There's no way in Hell Landlords and Real Estate want "Project Folks" in an area that spells Money and (Tourism) Expansion. Especially in that area. Other than the fact that many of these life-long NYCHA residents have been paying next to nothing (in Market terms) for apartments that are at max three bedrooms.
Trust Me. Many of those Elliot Chelsea Houses residents ain't getting into newly built apartments/complexes. They are going to end up having to participate in a lottery which has become the standard method of getting any form of low/middle income housing in this city. Provided they are even picked.
Nah.
You're thinking of the Jacob Riis Houses on Avenue D and the FDR Drive. Which is further east of 14th St.
But quiet as it's being kept, those folks are going to be next.
Huh?
Upstate New York
Which people better get into now
Because I see a housing boom there too
The last part is not true
Yes that have to set aside apartments for low income
However the owners say they picked names from the lottery for the apartments but leave them empty
Yep once again property near water… plus all the club, lounges, shopping areas there… it be a lot of homeless people around there to
Post a link about exactly what you're referring to. I would like to read it
Are you sure it was nyc people saying that? You might want to take that energy to another thread cause this ain’t the one
I'm speaking to BGOL in general..
It's amazing how attitudes about shit can change around here.
Here’s one link
But not everything that we talk about is posted in articles
A lot of it is who we know that tell us what’s going on in our neighborhoods
A year after affordable housing lottery was launched, dozens of apartments sit vacant in South Bronx development
It’s been over a year since a lottery was launched for a luxury “affordable” housing development located at 276 Grand Concourse in Mott Haven which was asking $2,000 a month for a…
welcome2thebronx.com
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