Journey into the heart of Nychaland

[Monte Davis]

But haven't you noticed all the McMansions marked down from $2M to $500K
since 2008? As soon as those Chicagoans borrow some money from their
parents, start businesses, and get into positive cash flow, they'll have
their pick. The system works!

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of rich
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 9:22 AM
To: David Morris
Cc: alice wellintown; pynchon -l
Subject: Re: Journey into the heart of Nychaland

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:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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/
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:13 PM, alice wellintown 
>> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > The land that time and money forgot