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What Can the Wealthy Buy For Ten Million Dollars?

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[Prototype page – in progress] Manhattan’s Smith Houses public housing project, home to 5,739 people, is located adjacent to the Brooklyn Bridge and is just a short walk from the Wall Street financial district. It is one of the oldest low income housing projects of the New York City Housing Authority. One the day of sudden disaster, September 11, 2001, thousands of people working in the financial district were forced to escape by foot. Not only was the footpath on Brooklyn Bridge packed with Wall Street professionals and workers in business attire carrying brief cases, but the walkways of Smith Houses were loaded with escapees. For the vast majority it was the first time they ever entered the grounds of a public housing project. Sixteen years later Wall Street is not only recovered, the World Trade Center has been rebuilt, but is booming with business. Yet Smith Houses is experiencing a slow motion hidden demolition. It is rotting away due to unconscionable neglect.
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Saving Smith Houses

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Saving Smith Houses [prototype page in progress] Alfred E. Smith Houses, New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) 25 St. James Place (offices) *** BASIC FACTS 1950 [?] razing for construction; final building completed Apr. 1, 1953 [The source is Wikipedia. Building No. 5, 9 St. James Pl., however, has a cornerstone with the year “1949” displayed prominently.] Grounds: 21.75 acres total property size, including parking lots and green areas [including Catherine Street Shelter?] 12 buildings; 17 floors each; 1,931 units; circa 5,739 (Wikipedia) residents Population is 30% elderly; highest share in NYCHA 12 Buildings (Which have round floor apts?) 1          20 Catherine Slip 2          10 Catherine Slip 3          182 South St 4          180 South St 5          9 St James Pl 6          374 Pearl St 7          5 St James Pl – C-Town 8          25 St James Pl – 4 storefronts (restaurant, news store, medical office, laundromat); Smit
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NYCHA Alumni - Notable Residents: Past & Present

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NYCHA Alumni - Notable Residents: Past & Present Ultra-High Net Worth - NYC Public Housing Notables Anthony, Marc – Metro North Plaza Houses, East Harlem, pop singer. Net worth $20.8 million. Blankfein, Lloyd – Linden Houses, East New York, Brooklyn, CEO Goldman Sacks; $1.1 billion in 2015 Goldberg, Whoopi (Caryn Elaine Johnson) – Elliot-Chelsea Houses, Manhattan, actress, comic; net worth $45 million Schultz, Howard – Bayview Houses, Canarsie, Brooklyn, Starbucks CEO; $2.8 billion (1-5-18) Streisand, Barbra – East Flatbush, Newkirk Av & Van Nostrand Av; singer; $370 million net worth *** *** *** NYC Public Housing Notables (non-rap) Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (Lew Alcindor) – Dyckman Houses, Inwood, Harlem, basketball. Ackerman , Gary – Walt Whitman Houses, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Congressman. Benton, Ephraim – Tompkins Houses, Brooklyn, actor. Burns, Ursula M. – Baruch Houses, Lower East Side; Xerox CEO; first African- American woman C
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