PACC Keeps Busy, Breaks Ground on Quincy
A stone’s throw from the Broken Angel, the Pratt Area Community Council is building a 48-unit development for those who earn less than $26,588 a year. According to The Brooklyn Eagle (from the snippet we could see on the free portion of the site — what’s up with a local newspaper charging for content?), PACC…
A stone’s throw from the Broken Angel, the Pratt Area Community Council is building a 48-unit development for those who earn less than $26,588 a year. According to The Brooklyn Eagle (from the snippet we could see on the free portion of the site — what’s up with a local newspaper charging for content?), PACC broke ground on the 6-story, 50,000-square-foot project on Monday. Located at 15 Quincy Street, this site is the same one a reader wrote in about a couple of months ago. Check the discussion on the link below. Anyone seen any drawings?
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Why can’t PACC do what Habitat for Humanity does?
Let the people who want the apt’s or homes prove it by hard work . You think drug Dealers are gonna help? The one’s that will help are the people who really want a home .They will feel good about themselves and prove to others there worthiness . If PACC does it like this then the 48 apt’s will go to the people who truly deserve them
i just emailed this topic to PACC…
I for one don’t think this would be good for the comunity . Call me racist but . They really wana put this in a comunity that’s struggling to thrive ? ….. You know what ? There’s nothing more to say about this , Brother man said it all . Fuckin shame
Wow ..Exellent post brother man .
Oh yeah, I just remembered that this will be the same block as Broken Angel, where they are making fancy condos now, for better or worse. We’ll see what happens…
WOW! First of all, these posting do not show racism. They show class-ism. You can change your socio-economic class, but you cant change your race. So, there is a high level of personal responsibility to one’s misfortune due to socio-economic class. Personally, I dont care what the socio-economic status of people who live in my neighborhood is, or race obviously for that matter. As long as its safe, clean, has the amenities/stores I need, and that the property value of my condo increases. Lets just hope that putting 48 families in my neighborhood that make less than $26K keeps my neighborhood desirable for me to live in.
Sweet Jesus, this is a vicious crowd!
4:03: Right on, right on. We all deserve access to the benefits of a good neighborhood and everyone has to start somewhere.
Could this, maybe, be that starting point for some people given that not everyone can enter “the market” paying 2K in rent or 2M+ for the oh so coveted brownstone?
Show some sense of grace people, it cost you NOTHING.
Mark my word’s if they really do place the 26 k a yr and under crowd we all know what’s gonna happen .LOUD kid’s ( we all know what kind right ? )Drunks ,Lazy types the list goes on .Clinton Hill just took 1 step back .
This has nothing to do with being a racist . The truth is those type of people are lower class . They just do not know how to act period . Loud , filthy,5 kids with 5 diffrent daddies . This will be no better than the project’s in my book .
Some of the comments in this conversation are truly appalling. I grew up in Brooklyn and remember when “Brownstone Brooklyn” was very diverse, socioeconomically, racially, ethnically, religiously. People of all stripes mingled, sometimes harmoniously and sometimes not. And what it taught me was to respect all people, regardless of their differences. Why should people who earn less than the investment banker/lawyer/suburban newcomers be relegated to “less desirable” areas? Shouldn’t they have access to the benefits of a “good” neighborhood — the schools, the grocery stores, the safety? If you want to live in a neighborhood populated by people who earn the same income as you, move back to the suburbs. Good riddance!
Sorry I don’t mean to sound rude or inconsiderate but…I own a home on Quincy Street and it’s already bad enough that at the corner of Classon and Quincy there’re drugs dealers hanging out, playing loud music all times of the day (mostly in the summer) and people running extension cords from their apartment windows to the street and repairing cars in front of the building.
I was hoping that whoever purchased 15 Quincy and the other properties at the other corner of Classon and Quincy would help elevated this problem not make it worst by building another low income building.
I’m NO WAY stating that everybody who makes $26,500 or less are drugs dealers and I know not all people can afford $1,800 and up rent but there has to be a better way. Instead of turning these into apartment why not make it into lower income condos? I found that people who own instead of rent usually takes more pride in where they live and it’s up keep.