Posted on 04/27/2020 4:26:38 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Rafael’s housing situation is an exercise in tolerance and creative space management. He lives with four other people in an overstuffed apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens, that measures less than 500 square feet.
He shares a bedroom with his mother. Two men sublet a second, smaller bedroom that Rafael created by subdividing the living room with drywall. His brother sleeps in the kitchen on a mat that he rolls up every morning and wedges in the corner, opening a path to the front door.
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Boomer here. My first home was an apartment building near the Pike in Long Beach. Living room/bedroom with a Murphy bed. I think the only completely separate room was the bathroom. Kitchen was off to one side. My dad had a white-collar job. By today’s standards, we were dirt poor, but back then, my parents thought of themselves as lower middle class.
Next home was a real apartment. My folks had a bedroom with a door. My bedroom was a closet big enough for a bed—but it was all mine.
So it’s just like 1890.
Or 1900.
Or 1910.
Or 1920.
Or 1930.
Or 1940.
Or 1950.
Or 1960.
Or 1970.
Or 1980.
Or...
Well, you get the picture.
Definitely nothing new.
Conditions as described are bad in ‘our eyes’ but guess pretty good when it is either there or a thatched hut with a leaky roof...
Worst part is the local govts allowed this to happen, if anyone complained about 10 people living in a one bedroom apartment you were dubbed a trouble maker, and the Schiff started hitting the fan when 4 families would buy a single family house and end up parking 10 vehicles in the yard, on the grass or turning lawns into parking with little or no enforcement by local officials.
Same neighborhoods who a short time earlier had ‘raised hell’ with construction people parking their take home vehicle in the ‘neighborhood’...not just ones with overload of tools etc but clean, new pickups with company name on them.
THAT upset the ‘shoe clerks’ but the 10 vehicles on the lawn didn’t...
Also-before the above-if you had two kids you needed at least two bedrooms and if a third on the way one was ‘breaking the lease’.
Kind of reminded me of my mother having Allstate auto insurance and getting cancelled the day I turned 16 and wouldn’t even take her back when I joined the Navy at 17. This was in 1955/56.
It always been that way....I can remember taking the train to see the Yankees in the 1950s..Just row after row of buildings and people sitting out side...I lived in Schenectady at the time...
When I went to Wayne State I shared a one bedroom for $100/month with several folks. Slept in sleeping bags. It was quite comfortable. Who needs furniture? Food from the grocery down the street cost next to nothing. We kept the place spotless (if you can believe it). Didn’t need a car but I had one.
>>He lives with four other people in an overstuffed apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens, that measures less than 500 square feet.
today they’d call that a spacious “tiny home”. This is what your masters want.
The 2400 square foot house we had before retirement was nice. Now we make due with 1561 square feet. I can’t imagine the two of us living in anything smaller.
See my violin? Really,it’s right here!
Bkmk
Wow!
Imagine if a bad communicable disease hit the world and the nation!
And there lies NY City with all those people living like rats in overstuffed cages breathing, coughing and hacking loogies on each other.....
What communities in NYC had the highest amount of Coronavirus cases and deaths?
Elmhurst and Corona.
So you can pin this on De Blasio and Cuomo for allowing this type of overcrowding to exist in the communities they govern.
Just like back home in their sh##hole what are they complaining about
One room downstairs, 2 up.
4 kids, 3 boys, 1 girl.
The girl got her own room upstairs and the 3 boys had the other.
Mom and Dad downstairs.
No running water, just an outhouse and wood heat.
All the kids did well.
Wonderful family.
White Privilige, right there, donchaknow.
One room downstairs, 2 up.
4 kids, 3 boys, 1 girl.
The girl got her own room upstairs and the 3 boys had the other.
Mom and Dad downstairs.
No running water, just an outhouse and wood heat.
All the kids did well.
Wonderful family.
White Privilige, right there, donchaknow.
Haven’t thought about the Pike in years. I thought that it was such a great place when I got to Long Beach to report aboard a destroyer.
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