How much would you pay to live in the projects? (Lincoln: apartment, rent)

[gladhands]

NYC has some relatively safe, fantastically located housing projects. Let's say someone told you you could rent an apartment in the housing project of your choice. Which would you choose, and how much would you be willing to spend? I'd probably pay 2500 for the Hernandez Houses on the LES.

[WhyRUMad]

If they paid ME $2,500/month to live there, maybe the ones on the UWS near 96th

[DoomDan515]

I wouldn't live in the projects if the city paid me to do so.

[thgreatalex]

I would definitely not pay a cent to live in the projects. Having grown up in the projects, anytime i visit my cousin who still lives there, my skin crawls.

[mathjak107]

i grew up in a nych project . i spent my lifetime making sure i never have to go back

[livingsinglenyc]

Originally Posted by mathjak107

i grew up in a nych project . i spent my lifetime making sure i never have to go back

You did well Mathjak, from renting in Nycha to owning on CP South!

[mathjak107]

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 .

[gladhands]

Originally Posted by WhyRUMad

If they paid ME $2,500/month to live there, maybe the ones on the UWS near 96th

The projects in Chelsea and behind Lincoln center are also really well located, and have very little crime.

[bluedog2]

Originally Posted by gladhands

NYC has some relatively safe, fantastically located housing projects. Let's say someone told you you could rent an apartment in the housing project of your choice. Which would you choose, and how much would you be willing to spend? I'd probably pay 2500 for the Hernandez Houses on the LES.

"Relative" safety and location are worthless if you are still left constantly dealing with all the other major quality of life issues.

[gladhands]

Originally Posted by bluedog2

"Relative" safety and location are worthless if you are still left constantly dealing with all the other major quality of life issues.

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.