Journey into the heart of Nychaland

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Chicago has started dismantling their public housing projects--remains
to be seen whether the people they remove find decent housing

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:45 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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.
>>
>> 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> wrote:
>> >
>> > The land that time and money forgot