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.
2 Brooklyn Complexes With a Ghost-Town Feel [NY Times]
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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
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.
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For the 6th time this week, I am ashamed to be American. Rob you’re a sorry arse!
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*
I for one am no supporter of public housing. Were “we the people” to honestly follow the money of the sniveling aristocrats who find it fit to belittle people because “their tax money” collectively supports the poor, we would find that many of them are immorally endowed. Not many complaints when these poor people are on the bottom of your shoe (at your service – physically or economically).
For the 6th time this week, I am ashamed to be American. Rob you’re a sorry arse!
I hate living in a society where money is more important than humanity.
Ahh, nice to see hating on the poor is alive and well in “liberal” NYC.
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majority are hard-working people
lol sure they are
*rob*
Hard-working people should be able to do whatever they want on their own dime. However, they should “mind their own business” with their own money, not mine.
Brilliant scheme to demolish the PJ’s.
***Bid half off peak comps***
“im allowed to hate since my taxes go to the people who live in these human roach motels.
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at December 8, 2009 12:25 PM”
Says the guy who is delinquent (by his own admission) on his government-issued student loans. Unlike the posters here, I have been in many NYC public housing projects buildings, and had friends and relatives who lived in NYC public housing projects. Like anywhere else, the troublemakers are a small (but active) percentage of the people who live there. The majority are hard-working people who mind their own business and don’t create trouble. I one way I agree – I’m not crazy, in principle over the concept of public housing. But I’m also tired of folks on this site (and elsewhere) castigating the people who live in public housing as all the same. Furthermore, there are public housing projects in the city that work quite well (Linden Houses in ENY for example).
Yes *rob* you are allowed to hate. Hate on, good sir!!!!!
And watch your own misery continue.
You can disagree with what is without having to “hate”. You can also use your time to make a difference in this world, to be part of the solution, instead of sitting on the internet and “hating”.
Shame, this has to be explained to an adult.