No one, but no one, in a luxury building is going to put up with inner city people moving into their buildings. In NYC, “poor” is a pretty moveable feast.
The idiot DeBlasio (Warren Wilhelm) voted for this thing without reading the zoning provisions. Typical! Now he’s trying to blame the other idiot, Bloomberg.
It reminds me of the 6th Avenue developers who agreed to put in little garden spaces and walkways and instead created huge wind tunnels blowing down the avenue. The idiots in government at that time didn’t bother with the little details either.
Read up on this. They don’t have a choice about whether or not to “put up with” these tenants. It’s required of the developers of the property.
This has become a problem in all of the new high end buildings. I believe it applies only to new buildings and not to conversions, but I could be wrong.
40 RSD is the first one to come up with the separate entrance idea, and that’s why they’re being attacked.
As for the “poor,” placing them in luxury buildings or neighborhoods has been tried before...and the “poor” hated it. They were far away from their friends and family, their shops, etc. - and they were living among people who either disliked or feared them or regarded them as charity cases. No fun for anybody.
But progressives don’t care about reality.