NYC approves apartment building with separate entrance for poor people

[Badger]

If you give poor people a separate building project far away from the rich people, you're socialist hero. If you give poor people a separate door on a nice building, you're satan.

The unbounded irrationality of liberal plebs is the 8th wonder of the world.

haha what

Hail!

As much as it utterly pains me to say this, AD actually makes a good point (other than the typically hyperbolic line at the end)

[Badger]

I feel so incredibly Swedish right now, considering that the only gated community I've ever witnessed was Visby's Old Town.



And the gates there haven't actually been closed for centuries.


Anyway I do have some sympathy with the people who wants separate doors in this case. I wouldn't either want to share an entrance with those sorts of snobby up-tight toffs that feel they need a freakin' doorman. <.<

My sister lived in Manhatten for several years, and a doorman isn't quite such a "toff-ish" luxury. Contrary to the image of a gaudily dressed guy holding a door and saying good morning, they accept deliveries and let workers into your apartment--which is HUGE in a delivery-service driven city like nyc. Maybe I'm seeing this through the eyes of my sister's upper west side economic mileau, and I'm not saying it's by any means a necessity, but a doorman is more a part of ny life than it would superficiallly seem.

<now waiting for actual new yorkers to scoff>