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I think most people pay NOT to live in the projects
Oh I don't know....
For all intents and purposes Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village pretty much are projects. They were built around the same time many of the federal ones went up in the same style, design and to serve basically one of the same purposes; housing for moderate income and or returning veterans and their families. Yet people will pay good money to live in one but not the other.
As one poster put it in on another site; STPCV is "white people's projects".
For all intents and purposes Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village pretty much are projects. They were built around the same time many of the federal ones went up in the same style, design and to serve basically one of the same purposes; housing for moderate income and or returning veterans and their families. Yet people will pay good money to live in one but not the other.
As one poster put it in on another site; STPCV is "white people's projects".
I grew up in the city, and was in my late 20s before I knew that Stuytown was not a housing project
I have had quality of life issues in "nice" buildings in nice neighborhoods. If I could score a 2 br in the Hernandez Houses for 2500, it would be a coup. Have you been in a NYHA building? Those are large units.
Yes,definitely been in countless NYCHA buildings. I was a social worker employed by NYC for many years at the beginning of my career.Have been in the worst and best "projects". I wouldn't consider "scoring " an apartment in any NYCHA building a "coup".
For all intents and purposes Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village pretty much are projects. They were built around the same time many of the federal ones went up in the same style, design and to serve basically one of the same purposes; housing for moderate income and or returning veterans and their families. Yet people will pay good money to live in one but not the other.
As one poster put it in on another site; STPCV is "white people's projects".
While it's true that they may have started out with similar characteristics and even similar populations they have evolved quite differently and no longer share much of anything other than their beginnings.
I grew up in the city, and was in my late 20s before I knew that Stuytown was not a housing project
From the FDR Drive you really cannot tell where SCPTV ends and Baruch Houses begins.
First time was invited to Stuyvesant Town (a party at a friend of a friend back in the early 1990's) swore it looked just like Todt Hill Houses on Manor Road. Nice, clean, upscale, mostly white, but still "the projects".
Once I got inside it underscored the feeling as the interiors of STPCV are not that much different than NYCHA buildings.
Now some persons have done wonderful things with their apartments at STPCV interior decorator wise, but then again so have some living in NYCHA apartments.
it was my family that had little money so i lived in one until my teens . my mother had a heart attack giving birth to my sister because she had mis-diagnosed rheumatic fever as a kid which damaged her heart .
so with my dad the only bread winner and a postal clerk and my mom with huge medical bills and unable to work we were kind of in a bind .
but thats what they were for, so in that sense it served its purpose, and your family lived there for the right reasons.
now look where you are today
Not a single red cent. I only go near them when I am being paid, preferably overtime, and armed, with backup and a vest.
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