In an earlier post, I mentioned the debate I had with a couple of my co-workers about the NATHAN STRAUS Housing "Projects" in Kips Bay. I said that they were indeed "projects", while my co-workers tried to said that it wasn't just because it's in KIPS BAY (a respectable, middle/upper class area of Manhattan).
Here's my proof (found on the New York Housing Authority website):
NATHAN STRAUS (1848-1931) – Co-owner of the R. H. Macy & Co. department store in Manhattan and Abraham & Straus in Brooklyn, Straus served as Parks Commissioner of New York City from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Board of NYCHA from 1936-37. He led a campaign for the compulsory pasteurization of milk and established pasteurized-milk stations here and in other cities. His philanthropic activities included the maintenance of a system of lodging houses and relief stations distributing coal and food to the poor in New York City. In the 1890s, one winter he gave away more than two million tickets that could be redeemed for coal, food or lodging. Straus Houses is in Manhattan’s Kips Bay section.
I rest my case.
That being said, it's one of the beautiful things about living in NYC; where else can you walk one block and find housing projects and then the next block find million-dollar brownstones? You can't get anymore unique than that.
NUFF SAID
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