This sea of NYCHA public housing projects greets you as you enter into Manhattan from the Williamsburg Bridge.
Clustered in the Lower East Side around the Williamsburg Bridge and the FDR Drive, you have the following:
Those were just the buildings north of the Williamsburg Bridge. South of it is Cooperative Village, a set of 4 cooperative complexes which together contain 4,500 units spread over 12 mostly "tower-in-the-park" style buildings. Aesthetically, they are only slightly less ugly then the sea of public housing projects to the north. You can watch the video of the view of the Lower East Side from the M train as it crosses the Williamsburg Bridge. What do you think? Take the poll and/or leave a comment below...
Are the projects of the Lower East Side ugly?
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S Morales
11/11/2022 01:59:35 pm
This is insulting to the people who live here on the Lower East Side. I am a shareholder in Masaryk Towers, a Mitchell-lama Co-Op (as were the buildings in Co-Op Village on the South side of the WB, until they were privatized). I have worked hard for the City of NY for 25 years to afford to purchase my apartment. While aesthetically it may not be a pristine glass high rise, it is MY HOME! We LESers do not appreciate your negative comments about our homes.
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Doji
3/28/2023 10:27:07 pm
I KNOW RIGHT?! I had the misfortune to stumble across this stupid website a few minutes ago. It's clowns like the curator of this website that we have to blame for the demolition of the east river amphitheater :(((
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3/15/2024 09:41:01 am
THESE BUILDING NO GOOD. I COME HERE WITH AMJGOS AND THEY BUS ME TO THIS BUILDING. NO GOOD!!
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Sharif
11/26/2022 05:31:34 pm
They are not ugly. They have character and form a historical legacy for the neighborhood. You can see those buildings in old movies from the '70s. It's a community of people and far better than the villages and favelas many of the residents are homogenously born or raised in from central and south America.
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Doji
3/28/2023 10:28:00 pm
Preach! This website is so stupid and infuriating I can barely type because my hands are shaking
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S.King
12/27/2022 11:32:41 pm
They have clusters of high rise buildings all throughout Nyc.All of them are not nycha..and all are not low Income.Some even have doormen and inside parking.But they are high rises none the less.What makes Them less ugly?🤔..Oooh I get it !!! Mostly minorities and impoverished live there..
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Doji
3/28/2023 10:30:38 pm
Just absolutely ridiculous, this website is. Taking photos of the buildings that house communities of REAL new yorkers and talking sh!t. Tasteless, offensive hogwash, this entire website.
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3/15/2024 09:43:24 am
Mate you sound like a two pint slag after a night of dancing in the stew!!
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