Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 11:45am.
I am a tenant in one of the last few Section 8 housing buildings in Spanish Harlem and I can tell you I feel as if there's someone breathing down my neck. One of my neighborhood's largest parks was destroyed for what appears to be storage for the Second Ave subway; a neighborhood daycare center now sits in the shadow of a 40+story, multidwelling building; and my own apartment building rests on the precipice between uncertain recertification and so-called lucrative real estate interests.
This city cannot afford to lose the single, most important asset: its people. If there is no place for the working/middle class to live and raise their children then how can New York survive and thrive in the coming years.
I am a tenant in one of the last few Section 8 housing buildings in Spanish Harlem and I can tell you I feel as if there's someone breathing down my neck. One of my neighborhood's largest parks was destroyed for what appears to be storage for the Second Ave subway; a neighborhood daycare center now sits in the shadow of a 40+story, multidwelling building; and my own apartment building rests on the precipice between uncertain recertification and so-called lucrative real estate interests.
This city cannot afford to lose the single, most important asset: its people. If there is no place for the working/middle class to live and raise their children then how can New York survive and thrive in the coming years.