2024-05-04T11:07:33-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/57159560/nychaland-is-a-zone-of-its-own Nam Henderson 2012-09-13T12:42:00-04:00 >2012-09-13T22:23:16-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/yl/yl6q9aeezbll6418.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>If Nychaland was a city unto itself, it would be the 21st most populous in the U.S., bigger than Boston or Seattle, twice the size of Cincinnati. Despite these prodigious stats, the projects remain a mystery to most New Yorkers, a shadow city within the city, out of sight and mind, except when someone gets shot or falls down an elevator shaft&mdash;just these bad-news redbrick piles to whiz by on the BQE.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Mark Jacobson visits New York City&rsquo;s various housing projects, which are he argues the last of their kind in the country. He also suggests that they may be on their way to extinction.</p>