NEW YORK (AP) — Saying they feared second-class-citizen treatment in their own neighborhoods, public housing residents Friday bashed an unusual plan to lease land in their complexes for new apartments aimed mostly at richer residents.
The plan would put new, mostly market-rate rental buildings on parking lots, basketball courts and outdoor plazas in venerable Manhattan public housing developments that occupy what’s now prime real estate.
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