How Public Housing Transformed New York City...part two
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Concluding half of Historian Joel Schwartz's commentary on the photographic archive of the New York City Housing Authority which is housed at the La Guardia and Wagner Archives.
Where and how can the average person access more of these old photos? I would like to see more of what used to exist on the upper west side. On what later became the Morningside, Grant, and Manhattanville towers on Old Broadway -- where Manhattan College used to be.
Muito bom
I live in a private home and when the next door made renovations... Omg a family of rats chewed their way into our basement and eventually (like 2 days!!!) all the way to the kitchen. It was horrifying... Those things are smart and they can CHEW. it took several weeks to find the holes and get em out. And this is my home that I own and love and take care of. If repairs are not made fast they will take over. Also, don't leave food or water sources out, I mean not a crumb not a wet sink because it will be like a magnet to them. NYCHA might be crap at repairs but obviously they are, but also do your part in keeping it clean. But yeah, eff rats and living in NYC is a constant battle to keep em out!!
Urban renewal spelled the end of the sense of neighborhood community. Although "community centers" were probably intended to make up for the horrible general public alienation induced by public housing (the projects) these centers ended up nothing more than playgrounds for drug pushers and hook-ups. The only people to truly profit from these initiatives were the politicians who bid out their influence to the highest political donors. Probably for every dollar that went into this urban renewal scam 50 % was graft. Contractors became multimillionaires.
"Donors" got their names inscribed on bronze plaques. Human ingenuity started to die and by the elections of 2020 could be pronounced dead.
PEOPLE MESS SHIT UP IT DOSEN'T HAPPEN BY ITSELF YOU GO TO THE ITALIAN AREA AND ITS STILL NICE AND CLEAN
I will never understand why they thought building housing project's would be so much better instead of renovating the buildings that were already there. Like in Williamsburg Brooklyn in the southside. Krause management renovated a bunch of buildings there and started managing them and their still in good condition and decent to live in. Started renovations in the very late 80s early 90s and the buildings are still nice.
Now NYCHA are having different private managing companies take over some NYCHA properties. Their renovating them getting rid of some of the bad tenants and opening ip again under new management because NYCHA was not doing and fixing anything no matter how many tenants complained. Many of these NYCHA bosses are a joke. They didn't get anything done for years which had these developments just falling completely apart. Just about all NYCHA developments are in bad shape. I grew up in a NYCHA development and no way in hell will I ever want to live in one ever again.
Because of this family history, I have been homeless for 5 years
Wow. How did you become homeless because of this history? Tks.
While initially NYCHA did provide decent housing for the working class of NYC, it could never address that due to the efforts of Robert Wagner, who was pushing the manufacturing jobs out of Manhattan from many of these redevelopment areas such housing projects afforded little to the residents even to the extent that there was no closely available work or commercial establishments to purchase household and personal necessities. These projects caused commercial rents to rise so much that neighborhood businesses could no longer afford to operate, thus compounding the sense of isolation to residents and encouraging gang culture.
1:10 That place was already a sh!thole in 1951
This was very interesting. The idea was good but turned into its own slum 30 years later. I’m born and Raised in NYC and see the deterioration of the neighborhoods the projects bring. I work in many of these projects and It’s a shit show. You can’t ride the elevators because of the horrendous stench of Urine. A breeding ground for crime and violence
Gee, I wonder why that is? It's baffling I tell ya.
THEY SHOULD HAVE DID LIKE CO-OP CITY LET THEM PAY THIER WAY BUT A LOWER COST GIVE SOMEONE SOMETHING FOR FREE AND THEY MESS IT UP
I wonder if the city photographed the area around Wythe Avenue?
Wythe and where? I know there were a lot of photos taken around the time S&S Corrugated Machinery was building their plant there in the 60s.
I enjoyed the two parts of this, but I was a little disappointed that the city housing projects built on the upper west side in the 60s were not covered. Around the same time that the west side urban renewal areas were being done, just a few blocks away towering projects had recently been completed, and more were still going up. One shot here at the 5:25 mark shows 137 West 93rd street. What isn't shown is the four 21 story housing projects just built two streets south. I know because my parents and I were the very first tenants of apartment 15J at 120 West 91st in, I believe, 1963 or 1964. I used to have a lot of color and B&W photos of that area (taken with a camera I got for $2.00 and some box tops), including the inside of the new apartments, but I lost most of them in a fire in 1999. I only have a very few left, and some are badly water damaged.