This photo was taken by me near the Williamsburg bridge. This is the 8th floor staircase of 75 Baruch in the Baruch housing projects. I took a picture of the stairs because the elevator in these buildings are terrible. You cannot tell from the picture but the entire staircase reeks of urine and there are multiple cases of cigarillos. The buzzer to these buildings never work and I don’t think the government has any intention of bring someone to fix that problem. This area of Manhattan is so funny because you have the filthy rich a few blocks from the underclass. People who pay thousands in rent living alongside people who pay $890 a month
