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It was interesting meeting a NYCHA representative, property manager Cyriaca Decaille, and learning about how the people in the Farragut Houses live. I didn’t know, for instance, that their rent was tied to their income, and I didn’t know that there was a long waiting list to get into the projects. It was also really interesting going inside a building and seeing a lobby. I found it kind of depressing. I live in a kind of “project” myself—Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan, much in the news lately—but our lobbies and hallways are much more inviting.

I enjoyed learning about the services available to the Farragut Houses residents, everything from tutoring to elder care. I was impressed—though not surprised—to hear about all the work that goes into maintaining a complex of this size. Ms. Decaille answered a wide variety of questions about everything from safety to apartment sizes to education in the area, all of which gave me a fuller understanding of the community. Unfortunately she was not able to answer my questions about public transportation in the neighborhood (she said, “I don’t know; I drive!”). I had hoped to find out which subways stations most residents used, whether they commuted to work by subway, whether they tended to work in Brooklyn, Manhattan, or another borough, whether the local stations were convenient, and whether the neighborhood was well served by public transportation. Although these questions weren’t answered, the visit was enlightening in other ways.

One thing I’m very interested in, in addition to transportation (my hobby!), is gentrification, the sharp divide between rich and poor—seen so clearly in the Farragut Houses/Vinegar Hill/DUMBO neighborhood. Ms. Decaille addressed some of this when she talked about the availability of jobs, the neighborhood schools, the lack of a nearby supermarket (something I had already read about in The New York Times), and the sharp dividing line between rich and poor neighborhoods. We also heard about it in the WNYC radio program we listened to and many articles exist online, including one in the New York Daily News titled “Life of Poverty and Fear in Brooklyn Housing Project for Those in Shadow of Wealth.” This is a problem throughout the city, and an issue I care about deeply myself. I hope the residents of Farragut Houses and their wealthy DUMBO neighbors can find ways of bridging the divide.

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This was the third visit to the Farragut houses but then we had a NYCHA representative who was the building manager fr the project houses. She gave us a tour around the Farragut houses and we went inside of the houses for the first time and saw what the conditions were. The conditions of the building as I observed were average compared to other project, and well maintained. We were able to ask he questions about the buildings and NYCHA that we couldn’t find online and with the information she provided us, will help us with our research.

After the third time we went to Farragut House, with the NYCHA staff, I got more understand about the property, One from many additional information that we got was we got chance to get in into one of the building and observe the lobby. Even though the officer of the NYCHA could not give me more information about the crime and safety, the information that she gave to all of us should be very helpful for most of us for our research.

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