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Re: Housing Projects Re: Jane Jacobs Re: Cross Manhattan expressway

Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Jul 25 11:25:08 2007, in response to Re: Housing Projects Re: Jane Jacobs Re: Cross Manhattan expressway, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Jul 25 07:33:22 2007.

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A friend of my mother's moved into a Project when I was a teenager many years ago, not because that was all she could afford, but I think just because she was cheap. I don't know if you were ever inside one of them, but I found it depressing and this was right after it was just built before any graffiti. Why? because although there was plenty light and air, the corridors were extremely narrow that two people could barely pass each other, so that the maximum number of apartments could be crammed in. Also, to keep costs down, there were no doors on any of the closets. Moses believed that poor people didn't deserve such "comforts" as the middle class, but he did care about them, just not in the same way he did about the middle and upper classes.

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