Which door would you choose?
"‘Poor doors’ decried as caste system" Associated Press August 18, 2014
NEW YORK — Recent construction of residential buildings with separate amenities for the haves and have-nots is provoking an uncomfortable debate in Manhattan over equality, economics, and the tightness of the social fabric.
One new skyscraper will greet residents of pricey condos with a front lobby, while renters of affordable apartments that give developers government incentives must use a separate side entrance — a so-called “poor door.”
What's next, to the back of the bus?
In another apartment house, rent-regulated residents can’t even pay to use a new gym that’s free to their market-rate neighbors. Other buildings have added playrooms and roof decks that are off-limits to rent-stabilized tenants.
It's Titanic on land.
New York is a city where the rich and relatively poor have long lived side by side, with who pays what often a closely held, widely varying secret. But the issue has now been pushed into the open.
It's all the people trying to get out the side door.
‘‘Nobody treats me like a second-class citizen in my own home,’’ says Jean Green Dorsey, who filed a complaint with the city Human Rights Commission this spring over her Manhattan building’s fitness center.
She and fellow rent-stabilized tenants aren’t allowed to enter it despite a willingness to pay a fee.
Developers say they’re motivated by business, not bias, and reserving some features for higher-paying residents is the price of having affordable housing in hot neighbor-hoods.
A different form of di$crimination, and one the propaganda pre$$ rarely talks about and pooh-poohs when it does.
But officials are considering proposals to force more inclusiveness, troubled by seeing landlords use tax and zoning breaks to create what critics view as a caste system.
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More like the tiger and the prince$$, no?
Also see: Racein in the Sun
The Big Apple $hriveling?
And speaking of deal-making:
No accord in Market Basket discussions
Looks to me like Artie S. is full of $pite.
