Posted by Ed to Chris on Mon, Feb 05, 2024

Chris it was the same way at PSA 9. Great seeing you at the HSS reunion.

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Posted by longtime resident on Tue, Feb 06, 2024

The project at 3340 Bailey Ave.maintained those high standard until the late 80's.

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Posted by Joel Stein on Tue, Feb 06, 2024

It's not that hard making a comparison between NYC Projects and Coop City. They are the same. It wasn't that way years ago when I moved into Coop City, NYC Projects were dumps and Coop City was a step up. Now Coop City is as much a dump as any NYC Project.

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Posted by Raanan G on Tue, Feb 06, 2024

i haven't really been to Co-op City much(except once, for about 5 minutes) since my father died, in 2004. Give me an example of how it's deteriorated.

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Posted by Joel Stein on Tue, Feb 06, 2024

I'll start with the crime problem. Cars are stolen from the parking garages so frequently that one of my neighbors actually rents space about a mile from here to park his car safely. He takes a bus to and from this space.

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Posted by Raanan G on Wed, Feb 07, 2024

And to think that once I borrowed my father's car and by left it in the Section 5 garage with one of the front windows rolled down by mistake, and a few days later went back and it was still there with no problem! This would have been in the '70s.

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Posted by Dan P on Wed, Feb 07, 2024

Elevators are constantly broken. Garbage overwhelms the chute rooms which smell up whole floors. Window replacements failing. Graffiti in stairways. Mailboxes broken into. Cracked and dangerous sidewalks. I could go on.

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