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    The Projects

    An Artist's Guide to Obtaining Public Housing

    Hope Gardens in Bushwick, the "most successful" (as of 1993) projects in the city. Are you an actor, artist, bartender, waiter, or a member of any other profession where you have low -- or at least low reported -- wages? Don't mind soulless architecture, pest infestation, broken-down elevators, urine-soaked hallways, or other sub-par conditions, as long as you get to live almost rent-free forever more in the city you love? Consider applying for an apartment with the New York City Housing ...

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    • Forget the Hydrants: Head to Bushwick Pool

      Nestled between the high-rise brick buildings of the Bushwick Houses is a chlorine oasis: Bushwick’s own public pool, aptly named Bushwick Pool. I was unaware ...

    • Get Schooled on Bedbugs

      I got a letter from HPD today inviting Bushwick residents to a seminar on bedbugs, "including how to recognize them, prevent infestation, and eliminate them ...

    • Agitating for Affordable... Parking?

      New York City Councilman Tony Avella hearts parking lots. New Yorkers never fail to set my eyes rolling. Their reverse-provincial, insulated expectations of what life is ...

    • Strolling Through Bushwick

      Last Saturday, I had the good fortune to attend the walking tour of Bushwick that Jeremy advertised in an earlier posting. Led by Adam Schwartz, ...
    • Giving Away the Projects
      Borinquen Plaza, East Williamsburg Have to admire the New York Sun's ability to spin an editorial into a news story. On May 15, they made decent arguments (I disagree with a few items not worth getting into) for a wholesale give-away of New York's public housing units to the people who live in them. Then this morning, after a week of ...
    • Remembering the Myrtle Avenue El
      BMT Myrtle Line: Central Avenue, 1952 -- from nycsubway.org Once upon a time, Bushwick was part of Brooklyn. Bushwickers could get to our own downtown on a train without going through Manhattan or Williamsburg. And then in 1969, it was over, and they knocked the Myrtle elevated down, save for a bit of ghost trusses for a few hundred feet west ...
    • Bed-Stuy's Habitat Coops
      This is the first I have heard of Habitat for Humanity building multifamily homes, and I have to say it's pretty cool. Housing subsidies and projects only perpetuate the cycle of poverty -- 70 years of public housing and are there any less people on assistance?...and for that matter, how many generations of the same family get assistance? Usually when ...
    • Ownership Projects?
      Anything is better than rental housing projects, so I guess I should be thankful that that isn't what's going in at 99-105 Central Avenue -- across the street from my house. According to online info, the buildings are owned by Ridgewood Bushwick Homesteading Assistance Housing and a developer that used HUD's 203K program, of which I am only vaguely familiar ...