[wny]

This is routine....I lived down there 20 years ago and knew 3 couples making well into six figures living in rent controlled units.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Ah, but a tenured government-paid government university professor can live in a rent-controlled apartment. teaching about the evils of capitalism!

[Dallas59]

Well....Some people worth millions are cheap.

Hetty Green's stinginess was legendary. She was said never to turn on the heat or use hot water. She wore one old black dress and undergarments that she changed only after they had been worn out, did not wash her hands and rode in an old carriage. She ate mostly pies that cost fifteen cents. One tale claims that Green spent half a night searching her carriage for a lost stamp worth two cents. Another asserts that she instructed her laundress to wash only the dirtiest parts of her dresses (the hems) to save money on soap.[7]

Green conducted much of her business at the offices of the Seaboard National Bank in New York, surrounded by trunks and suitcases full of her papers; she did not want to pay rent for her own office. Later unfounded rumors claimed that she ate only oatmeal, heated on the office radiator. Possibly because of the stiff competition of the mostly male business environment and partly because of her usually dour dress (due mainly to frugality, but perhaps in part related to her Quaker upbringing), she was given the nickname, the "Witch of Wall Street".[2]

She was a successful businesswoman who dealt mainly in real estate, invested in railroads and mines, and lent money while acquiring numerous mortgages. The City of New York came to Green for loans to keep the city afloat on several occasions, most particularly during the Panic of 1907; she wrote a check for $1.1 million and took her payment in short-term revenue bonds. Keenly detail-oriented, she would travel thousands of miles alone—in an era when few women would dare travel unescorted—to collect a debt of a few hundred dollars.

[VanShuyten]

I bet there were several tenants in Cabrini Greens that made six-figure incomes,

selling crack and heroin to the other 10,000 residents.

[BitWielder1]

What does she mean move them out?
I thought the 0bama administration wanted diversity in housing.
Or does diversity only work in one direction?

[SamAdams76]

I’m still amazed by New York City. All those people (millions!) and all those tall buildings. So many taxis that the streets look full of yellow bug from any one of the hundreds upon hundreds of skyscrapers. So many restaurants that you can choose a Manhattan block at random and never visit the same restaurant twice in a given month. An entire city under the city with multiple layers of subways and subterranean passages. It’s also more pedestrian friendly than any suburban town if you can believe that.

[Tai_Chung]

How many “poor” families can pay $1,574/month on rent?
I think that is more of a middle class price range.

What is the market price for the 3 bedroom apartment in NYC?

[Joe 6-pack]

"If you're making more than the mayor of New York City, you should not be living in public housing," said Councilman Ritchie Torres...

Why not? The mayor of NYC lives in public housing...

[NonValueAdded]

Tell their neighbors in the project, then they will move if their sense of self-preservation is working.

[kearnyirish2]

“They should move them out,” said Carmen Santiago, an Alfred E. Smith Houses resident...”If you’re making more than the mayor of New York City, you should not be living in public housing,” said Councilman Ritchie Torres, who is chairman of the Public Housing Committee.

Freebies are only for “preferred minorities”, I guess. Gibsmedats/Da-me-esos...