![]() A percale weave is noticeably denser and wears well over time. Crib sheet is made of 100%pure cotton percale.And tiers of romantic ruffles on the crib skirt add texture and movement to the bottom of the crib. A fresh geometric design on the sheeting and pretty prints on the bumper are a perfect complement. ![]() Decorative stitching surrounds the floral motif on the handmade, whole-cloth cotton quilt. In Grant, you would be afraid to walk down the steps because they had a bunch of crack bottles and they get stuck in the groove of your shoe.This chic nursery design is inspired by woodblock prints from India. Earline Jenkins, 70 Resident of the Grant Houses in Manhattan since 1976Įvery place you step, you would step on a crack bottle, back in the ’80s, a long time ago. We were doing the most difficult job in the city while at the same time being looked down upon as second-class for not being N.Y.P.D. We always felt like we were the underdogs. It was a very small percentage of bad actors having a huge impact on the quality of life for hard-working people. Patrick Conry, 54 Assistant chief at the New York Police Department and former member of the Housing Authority Police Department There were fights everyday, shootouts everyday, people playing music outside of your building to get someone out to fight. When the crack epidemic came, it took over. Tillman, 43 Resident of the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn since 1975 Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times L.B. The Frasier family in their living room in King Towers in Harlem in 1972. The 1980s is the first time when you’re more at risk of criminal violence on Nycha property than you are in the surrounding neighborhood. They were places that you wanted to get into as the neighborhoods were deteriorating around you. Gregory Umbach Professor and author of “The Last Neighborhood Cops”Īs New York falls apart in the 1970s, in ways that have been largely forgotten, the housing authority’s projects were anchors of stability and safety. We couldn’t renovate every building out there, but if a problem came along there was enough money to address that particular problem. My impression in those days is that there was a lot of capacity. The authority at that time had its own police force. We had 17,000 employees, not including the 2,700 police officers. Obviously the authority had much more staff at that time. Vic DeLucia/The New York Times Joseph Shuldiner General manager at Nycha from 1986 to 1990 ![]() To understand how Nycha arrived at this point, we combed through our photo archives for forgotten images and spoke to longtime residents, former housing officials, historians and others about the housing authority’s often overlooked and surprising eight-decade history. As part of a settlement in June in which Nycha admitted to covering up its actions and lying to the federal government, a court-appointed monitor will soon oversee the beleaguered agency as it tries to come up with billions of dollars to keep thousands of its aging buildings habitable for decades to come. Nycha successfully endured some of New York City’s most turbulent eras while other public housing buildings across the country came tumbling down. The country’s largest public housing system was once a seemingly reliable option for the working poor. Public housing in New York City has become synonymous with the dilapidated living conditions many of its more than 400,000 residents have endured in recent years.īut it wasn’t always like this in the 325 housing projects owned and managed by the New York City Housing Authority, also known as Nycha.
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