From the Wall Street Journal:
“When New York’s first apartment building, on East 18th Street, was planned in 1869, the reception it received was as cold as a February wind off the Hudson. New Yorkers reckoned that “cohabitation,” as apartment life was called, would fail and that gentlemen would never live “on shelves.”
Really, New York has never been the same since. Lost its magic.
There’s a push to legislate against high density. I think we should not push people out to the fringes – Let’s build up and watch the punters vote with their home loans…
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