Journey into the heart of Nychaland

[David Morris]

Permanent immigrants.  We might more of us be looking to double bunk to
live in a Burb like NYC.  NYCHA needs an "off lease" Central Office. I see
a big profit center.

On Wednesday, September 19, 2012, alice wellintown wrote:

> My visit to the Linden Houses was part of a self-guided tour of what
> I’d come to call “Nychaland.” As in NYCHA, the New York City Housing
> Authority, a.k.a. the projects.
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> New York might be a city of neighborhoods, but Nychaland is a zone of
> its own. It is almost unthinkably huge: 334 “developments” spread from
> Staten Island’s Berry Houses to Throgs Neck in the Bronx—178,895
> apartments in 2,602 buildings situated on an aggregate 2,486 acres, an
> area three times the size of Central Park. The population of Nychaland
> is usually cited at 400,000, but this number is universally regarded
> as too low, since most everyone knows someone living “off lease.” One
> NYCHA employee says that “600,000 is more like it.” That’s about 8
> percent of New York—with 160,000 families on the waiting list. If
> Nychaland was a city unto itself, it would be the 21st most populous
> in the U.S., bigger than Boston or Seattle, twice the size of
> Cincinnati.
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> http://nymag.com/news/features/housing-projects-2012-9/
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> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:13 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
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> > The land that time and money forgot
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