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In reply to the discussion: NYC Approves Apartment Building With Separate Entrance for Poor People [View all]Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)4. Let them eat cake.
Actually, the point IS to full integrate the affordable housing with the market rate units and Extell should rename it the Exclusionary Housing Program.
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NYC Approves Apartment Building With Separate Entrance for Poor People [View all]
onehandle
Jul 2014
OP
It reflects badly on poor folks too, when they let themselves be made doormats!
IrishAyes
Jul 2014
#21
But you're saying on the one hand everyone should, then making exceptions for those it would
IrishAyes
Jul 2014
#67
Yes, and Rosa Parks and MLK and others made sacrifices that they felt they were willing to make.
F4lconF16
Jul 2014
#68
GET REAL. AS IF poor women would get anywhere with your "revolt." WHY DON'T YOU START IT?
WinkyDink
Jul 2014
#39
Stop twisting my words - or don't you know the difference between starting something
IrishAyes
Jul 2014
#59
I think it is already too late for that too or will be by the time the adjustments
TheKentuckian
Jul 2014
#63
I would prefer a separate entrance So I wouldn't have to rub shoulders with the rich.
Denis 11
Jul 2014
#23
and be called the Troglytes - the rich will live on floating islands above the Earth
aint_no_life_nowhere
Jul 2014
#52
That's a stupid idea. I'm poor and I live in an apartment building. If my building had a
Louisiana1976
Jul 2014
#28
Sunk costs, most all... the big "perk" is not being confused with the little people...
devils chaplain
Jul 2014
#82
What's amazing about this thread is that NOBODY knows what the apartments are like...
brooklynite
Jul 2014
#91
I mentioned several times that these are legitimate $5,000 per month apartments...
Lucky Luciano
Jul 2014
#92
Or, you could just get the fuck out of NYC and live like an adult human being somewhere else
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Jul 2014
#93