400 new affordable apartments were announced for the Financial District this past week. Roughly a third of the new buildings at 5 World Trade Center, will be set aside for middle- and working-class New Yorkers, with 80 of those apartments earmarked for people who lived and worked near the old World Trade Center as well as some first responders. What will be missing for the people who move into these apartments is the set of services that constitute a neighborhood. This tower is not in Battery Park City, which is a decent walk away. The few residential buildings around the memorial exist for the generously rich, who leave a lot of their support to staff and deliveries.
