NYC approves apartment building with separate entrance for poor people

[Simfan34]

Of course, this wouldn't be a problem if we weren't so overly intent on sticking "affordable" apartments in every new project and just rolled back rent control. You get what you pay for. I believe the building in question is on Riverside Drive. One entrance is on Riverside, the other is on the side street.

Paul Kemp's surprising comparison with the Woolworth's counter is quite off. It's as if I was to insist upon access to the gym because my neighbor has access. Or the fact that since people were in first class on a plane got to board first, I deserved to board at the same time. It's not at all the same. I'm surprised he made it. I mean really, I wasn't expecting such a thing from Kemp.

[Simfan34]

I suppose I missed that point, obviously ownership doesn't preclude equal treatment, you're right about that. I thought it was a bit hyperbolic, but I get what you mean.

Also realise said "poor" people could be making close to $200,000 a year with a middle income housing program such as what is in this building. At another time these would be the very same people many of you would call parasites, needing to be guillotined, etc. It's the 5% as opposed to the 1%.

[Simfan34]

<now waiting for actual new yorkers to scoff>

No, you're right.

[Simfan34]

I wish I had air conditioning. Just saying.

However, I think many Americans have just become accustomed to a giant home.  You don't need 800 sq ft of space per person.

800 sq ft = giant home?!

[Simfan34]

You call that giant? That's an average house, maybe a little above average. Even in NYC, the average four bedroom apartment is 2,700 sq ft- not that much smaller.

[Simfan34]

In other news, a 1100ft, 106-story, 1400 unit skyscraper at 520 West 41st St. demonstrates that "supertall" buildings are no longer the preserve of the extraordinarily wealthy (but also the merely very wealthy)