Wow. I thought I was back in the Lower Ninth Ward doing Katrina cleanup when I saw these pix. And you're right, Peter, these have been decaying for years. Why is all of the waterfront property in NYC wasted? Most major cities revere those areas. Yet here it took YEARS to get the West Side Hwy waterfront Parks developed. Who cares? Let's just throw a few more lawn chairs in Times Square instead.

A new doubler.

Wow. I thought I was back in the Lower Ninth Ward doing Katrina cleanup when I saw these pix. And you're right, Peter, these have been decaying for years. Why is all of the waterfront property in NYC wasted? Most major cities revere those areas. Yet here YEARS to get the West Side Hwy parks developed. But let's throw a few more lawn chairs in Times Square.

Theyre gonna start working on this as soon as the World Trade Center and Coney Island are done......ie, never. Some real estate scumbag probably owns all of them, will eventually have all of them condemned, then apply for a tax free grant to build yuppie condos to sell for millions, once those pesky poor people are removed.

That's the catch. Moving all those pesky poor people.

Let me guess: they're owned by absentee landlords that are sitting on them until some russian money or a Joe Sitt-type developer comes their way...

Or maybe the city should do what Flint, MI and a bunch of other cities are doing; raze them and give land over to nature. No handouts, no subsidies, no uptight preservation committees.

Better yet, raze the projects and the let the land return to nature... as opposed to the taxpayer-subsidized jungles in place right now.

How much to buy one? Are there any good deals, or are they all collapsing?

I stayed in one of those bungalows one summer when I was a kid, back when there was an amusement park there. It was a great summer. Sadly, New York exported it's projects Parisian style to some great beach front property so that the city could be further gentrified. On the plus side hand, some pesky poor people from sight and the Rockaway Park beach is now kept clean of bottles and cans in the summer-time.

seriously, where can one buy these bungalows? or are they officially going to be taken down for crappy, ugly condos?

Rockaway would have been the Riviera of New York. However, the city fathers placed housing projects throughout the peninsula. They were originally populated by people that they felt wouldn't pay the rent anyway, It was the Siberia of the NYC Housing Authority. They created instant slums and the beaches are usually empty. In the rest of the world, beachfront property is more valuable.

I'm literally getting angry at these pictures, mainly because the sun is shining in them.

Agreed.

and because this entire photo essay/article was ripped off from the Real Deal one

so two people cannot work with the same subject matter?

the entire thing is a ripoff

how so, because i don't really see it. do you think that ny should just ignore the situation that happening there?

go back to ohio you fuckin douche.

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