We ’ve all heard of the length to which NYC ’s homeless have gone to find protection , from living in abandon factories to ramp up whole encampments inside subway tunnels . Buta report from the New York Postgoes one step further , describing how masses are now making home out of lowly nooks and crannies between the Manhattan Bridge ’s sword platforms .
The chronicle , which is full of jokes about what a Craigslist broker would say about the shelter ( zero can , great view ! ) , describes how a bicyclist crossing the Manhattan Bridge hear a man climbing the fence and mistake him for a self-destructive sweater . He call 911 , but , when the constabulary accosted the man , he explained that he was just go home : A 10 by 1.5 foot crack in the sword strut above the bike lane and below the mineral pitch of the actual drive lane .
New York ’s roofless living INSIDE the Brooklyn Bridge.http://t.co/ReMtx0P4Nupic.twitter.com/C1o2WezYMo
— Joe McDonald ( @Joe_McDonald)April 13 , 2014
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The Post takes the opportunity to point out that “ a one - bedroom apartment a match blocks away at 274 South St. would be $ 2,900 a month . ” The spaces are so diminutive , they ’re only bombastic enough to wobble into for a spasmodic quietus . This is a first for NYC , but similar place are more common in city like Hong Kong , where many migrant worker can only open “ cage business firm ” no tumid than closets .
But other New Yorkers have imagined using the city ’s bridges for housing . During the Cold War , the city install a series of shelters inside the masonry base of the Brooklyn Bridge . The tiny shelters were forgotten until 2006 , when aDepartment of Transportation crowd rediscoveredthecracker - stuffed provision boxesinside . It ’s gentle to conceive of that there are 12 of other forgotten nooks and cranny embed in NYC ’s infrastructure , once mean to serve as disaster caparison . If only we could release them all into practicable caparison forNYC ’s 64,060 homeless . [ New York Post ]
picture : Joshua Haviv
Update : Gothamist reportsthat the NYPD has removed one homeless homo living between the bridge ’s platforms .
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