NYC Approves Apartment Building With Separate Entrance for Poor People

[theworldismine13]

NYC Approves Apartment Building With Separate Entrance for Poor People
http://gawker.com/nyc-approves-apartment-building-with-separate-entrance-1608352680/+cushac

It would be difficult to come with a more on-the-nose metaphor for New York City's income inequality problem than the new high-rise apartment building coming to 40 Riverside Boulevard, which will feature separate doors for regular, wealthy humans and whatever you call the scum that rents affordable housing.

Extell Development Company, the firm behind the new building, announced its intentions to segregate the rich and poor to much outrage last year. Fifty-five of the luxury complex's 219 units would be marked for low-income renters—netting some valuable tax breaks for Extell—with the caveat that the less fortunate tenants would stick to their own entrance.


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The city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development approved Extell's Inclusionary Housing Program application for the 33-story tower this week, the New York Post reports. The status grants Extell the aforementioned tax breaks and the right to construct a larger building than would ordinarily be allowed. According to the Daily Mail, affordable housing tenants will enter through a door situated on a "back alley."

Any of the unwashed folk who complain about such a convenient arrangement, of course, are just being ungrateful. As the Mail points out, fellow poor-door developer David Von Spreckelsen explained as much last year:

"No one ever said that the goal was full integration of these populations," said David Von Spreckelsen, senior vice president at Toll Brothers. "So now you have politicians talking about that, saying how horrible those back doors are. I think it's unfair to expect very high-income homeowners who paid a fortune to live in their building to have to be in the same boat as low-income renters, who are very fortunate to live in a new building in a great neighborhood."

In these economically fraught times, it's easy to forget that the super rich earned their right to never see you, hear you, smell you, or consider your pitiful existence. Expecting them to share an entrance would be unfair.

 

[88m3]

as we move further from a cohesive society...


as the world turns

 

[Cabbage Patch]

I can't, today.

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

Lol @ me thinking this is a article from the Onion.

There was an article in the New York Times where Warren Buffet said: “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” The wealth disparity in America at this point is on par with third world kleptocracies and it's only getting worse. This will not end well. There will be blood.

 

[tmonster]

:dscustai:

 

[PimpHandStrong]

Lol @ me thinking this is a article from the Onion.

There was an article in the New York Times where Warren Buffet said: “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” The wealth disparity in America at this point is on par with third world kleptocracies and it's only getting worse. This will not end well. There will be blood.

Bruh this article spells that out exactly, http://www.politico.com/magazine/st...ng-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#.U85cJ4BdUqR

The 1% going to keep sitting around doing slick shyt til one day mfers are going say enough is enough. Theres no society ever in history that has sustained wealth inequality the U.S. is at right now.

 

[88m3]

Bruh this article spells that out exactly, http://www.politico.com/magazine/st...ng-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#.U85cJ4BdUqR

The 1% going to keep sitting around doing slick shyt til one day mfers are going say enough is enough. Theres no society ever in history that has sustained wealth inequality the U.S. is at right now.

 

[PimpHandStrong]

Give me an example of a country/society that maintained/maintains such an inequality between the rich and the poor and said society continued/continues to thrive and grow.

 

[88m3]

Give me an example of a country/society that maintained/maintains such an inequality between the rich and the poor and said society continued/continues to thrive and grow.

I'm fairly positive there are more extreme examples all over earth currently and there have been for hundreds of years.




I do agree things will boil over eventually.

 

[Black Hans]

What's going on in NYC? They have everything from women trying to get men arrested for hollering at them to architects creating Jim Crow apartments.

 

[PimpHandStrong]

I'm fairly positive there are more extreme examples all over earth currently and there have been for hundreds of years.




I do agree things will boil over eventually.

Let me just quote the article from which I'm co-signing, should make my statement more clear.

"No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It’s not if, it’s when."

Thrive and grow in the right direction.

 

[superunknown23]

That's not even the best part! The poor will enter through a hallway where the rich can watch them from elevated balconies. For premium entertainment, they will be given a variety of rotten vegetables to "motivate" the poor by throwing the rotten vegetables at them! It's fun for the whole family and its a friendly reminder to the poor to "pick themselves up by the bootstraps" and not be poor.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

I dont see the problem. Id rather this than there be no affordable housing at all, which would have been the result had the developers had to choose one way or another.

 

[Trip]

which entrance does the middle class enter through?

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

Bruh this article spells that out exactly, http://www.politico.com/magazine/st...ng-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#.U85cJ4BdUqR

The 1% going to keep sitting around doing slick shyt til one day mfers are going say enough is enough. Theres no society ever in history that has sustained wealth inequality the U.S. is at right now.

If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us. No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It’s not if, it’s when.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/st...g-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#ixzz38Cb17b00