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March 9, 2009
The gaps in the Times's "Living In" Fort Greene
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Norman Oder notes that aside from placing Brooklyn's Ft. Greene neighborhood next to "the Atlantic Yards area" (a planned project, not a real place), The NY Times totally ignored the high-rise public housing.
The worst thing was the failure of the article to mention the presence of high-rise buildings other than new luxury housing. Fort Greene is a mixed-income neighborhood; it includes public housing and subsidized Mitchell-Lama buildings.
Those buildings do not show up in the New York Times classifieds. They likely are not the desired locations of typical Times readers. But they are part of "Living In" Fort Greene.
Posted by lumi at March 9, 2009 5:13 AM