Archinect - News2024-11-25T07:03:33-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/57159560/nychaland-is-a-zone-of-its-own
Nychaland is a zone of its own Nam Henderson2012-09-13T12:42:00-04:00>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—just these bad-news redbrick piles to whiz by on the BQE.</p></em><br /><br /><p>
Mark Jacobson visits New York City’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>