City Limits, February 17, 2017: Far Rock Panel Worry: Will There be Too Much Low-Income Housing?
“Some Far Rockaways board members, however, seem to be working from the assumption that if the city had its druthers, it would saturate the area with as many low-income people as it could. One wonder if it’s a fear rooted in regret at the way the beach-town community changed after Robert Moses built public housing developments there in the 1950s. Or perhaps it’s just that the area has long been so neglected by both developers and the city that—like in so many community boards throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn pre-gentrification days —there’s just a lot of excitement about garnering investment, and no sense of the danger that investment can sometimes bring.”