Classic Limo-Liberal Design for Living - Critics blasting Upper West Side luxury building for planning separate entrance for affordable-housing units

Plans for the new 'James Barack Crow Plaza' has the classic design to make the limo-liberals feel good about themselves. m/r

Mr. James B. Crow plans to move in to the Upper West Side.

Critics blasting Upper West Side luxury building for planning separate entrance for affordable-housing units - NYPOST.com

• By KATE BRIQUELET  August 18, 2013
• This is rich!
  The poor will use a separate door under plans for a new Upper West Side luxury tower — where affordable housing will be segregated from ritzy waterfront condos despite being in the same building.
  Manhattan developer Extell is seeking millions in air rights and tax breaks for building 55 low-income units at 40 Riverside Boulevard, but the company is sequestering the cash-poor tenants who make the lucrative incentives possible.
  Five floors of affordable housing will face away from the Hudson River and have a separate entrance, elevator and maintenance company, while 219 market-rate condominiums will overlook the waterfront.
  ...
  “You know that show ‘Downton Abbey’? Where the servants have to come and go through separate entrances and bow their heads when they see a noble?” wrote the author behind the blog West Side Rag. “Well, there could soon be a version right here on the Upper West Side!”
  Extell broke ground on the building between West 61st and West 62nd streets last year as part of the 15-tower Riverside South residential complex stretching to West 72nd Street.
  Now the company is applying for the city’s Inclusionary Housing Program, which gives developers more floor area in exchange for building on- or off-site affordable housing.
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