We Always Wanted a Real Home, With Flowers on the Windowsill
The Times takes a front-page look today at another angle on the housing boom: All the new construction, in all sorts of different places. "While Manhattan's new buildings may get the ink," the paper says, "the real action is in the city's four other boroughs." Apparently the city issued construction permits for 25,208 new housing units last year and 15,870 so far this year. Former drug zones in eastern Brooklyn are seeing lots of new construction. Apartment complexes are being built in former industrial areas in Queens. Immigrants are buying their first homes. A limestone-fronted building is going up on a block in the Bronx. It's great news, except for one thing left unaddressed: You'll still never be able to afford a decent place in a neighborhood you want to live in.
