Delays and Problems at Ingersoll and Whitman Houses
Back in 2004, tenants began getting booted from their apartments at the Ingersoll and Whitman public housing complexes in Fort Greene to make way for a much-needed renovation that was forecast to be complete by this year. In classic New York City Housing Authority style, though, the renovation is far from complete (the finish date…
Back in 2004, tenants began getting booted from their apartments at the Ingersoll and Whitman public housing complexes in Fort Greene to make way for a much-needed renovation that was forecast to be complete by this year. In classic New York City Housing Authority style, though, the renovation is far from complete (the finish date has been pushed back to 2012) and the displaced tenants are still, well, displaced. According to an article in today’s New York Times, 923 out of 3,500 units now sit empty, as long as you don’t count the drug dealers and squatters who avail themselves of the free real estate. This is a classic case of administrative mismanagement, said Assemblyman Joseph R. Lentol of Brooklyn. It’s really pathetic when you think about how long this has taken and how administratively they could have done it better. Here’s a slice-of-life from the one of the complexes:
At Ingersoll, the windows of a few empty units have been shattered. Teenagers who broke into a vacant unit in the building recently left the door unlocked. One evening, there was a bicycle next to the refrigerator, gang graffiti on the walls and a condom wrapper on the floor. The light in the kitchen still worked.
Pleasant.
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How do you feel about subsidizing student-loan deadbeats like your buddy Rob, Joe from Brooklyn? Because that’s what you (and I) are doing.
1.) i dont breed more deadbeat future welfare scrubs
2.) i am a productive (lol) member of societ
3.) never been committed of a crime
4.) i AM paying back my loans, slowly.. im on deferment anyway. welfare scrubs dont pay anything back or contribute to society in any positive way. except for providing people weed i guess
*rob*
How do you feel about subsidizing student-loan deadbeats like your buddy Rob, Joe from Brooklyn? Because that’s what you (and I) are doing.
Posted by: East New York at December 8, 2009 4:04 PM
You’re comparing a loan WITH INTEREST to tax-payer subsidized housing. I don’t think that’s a very fair comparison.
Do you really think it’s right that there are working poor who don’t live in public housing, paying for people who make MORE money to live in the projects?
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Actually no, it doesn’t, no more so than being gay gives you the right to be homophobic, or being black gives you the right to hate blacks. And since when does living in the PJs= welfare recipient? Ignorance knows no bounds it seems.
are YOU that moronic? just living in the projects is in and of itself WELFARE of some kind, probably the biggest form of welfare there really is! and yes, i do believe i have every right to not like welfare scrubs.
ill say it again. maybe ill say it three times
welfare scrubs
welfare scrubs
welfare scrubs
and yes i hate the rich too haha
*rob*
How do you feel about subsidizing student-loan deadbeats like your buddy Rob, Joe from Brooklyn? Because that’s what you (and I) are doing.
And of course, the residents of Ingersoll and Whitman are all lazy ne’er do wells who leech off of society their whole lives. Not like the hard working people you used to know, right?
Posted by: BedStuyDoOrDie at December 8, 2009 3:53 PM
I don’t know whether they are hardworking or not, I know I’m hardworking, I know I don’t want my money to go to pay for a lifetime of public housing OR corporate welfare. I just “mind my own business.”
And of course, the residents of Ingersoll and Whitman are all lazy ne’er do wells who leech off of society their whole lives. Not like the hard working people you used to know, right?
I lived a large part of my child hood in Marcy projects. I doubt the people living there now would agree with you.
Posted by: BedStuyDoOrDie at December 8, 2009 3:41 PM
Yeah, because everyone I knew who grew up in the projects saved their money, went to school or got a job with the city and got out. Being an adult means being responsible for yourself, not expecting everyone else (many of whom are in similar or worse financial circumstances)to pay for your lifestyle.
Ditto that, I know the Sheepshead and Canarsie PJ’s well, everyone I knew who grew up there would agree with me and Rob take the upper-middleclass liberal guilt somewhere else.
Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at December 8, 2009 3:28 PM
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I lived a large part of my child hood in Marcy projects. I doubt the people living there now would agree with you.
um, i grew up a large part of my childhood in the projects. so i think im allowed to hate on welfare scrubs if i want to.
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at December 8, 2009 3:13 PM
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Actually no, it doesn’t, no more so than being gay gives you the right to be homophobic, or being black gives you the right to hate blacks. And since when does living in the PJs= welfare recipient? Ignorance knows no bounds it seems.