In their zeal to put up as many taxpayer-subsidized luxury high-rises in Manhattan as possible, our successive mayoral administrations certainly haven’t given much thought to what’s being displaced. Or just how diversity-impoverished our ever-more-ghettoized-by income city can become.
A woman who runs a dressmaking business from her apartment tells me about going downtown to the former fabrics-and-trimmings district and finding the suppliers she’d long patronized suddenly not there anymore. Inquiries determined that relocation to Long Island City had become unavoidable.