Here's proof that NYC's middle class has been getting squeezed out since the 1870s

… perspective courtesy of Stephen Birminghams book  Life at the Dakota New Yorks Most Unusual Address about the … New York Times demanding to know why the city was keeping empty land in Central Park while the middle classes are … people in New York have the population lived in 40000 houses of between five and fifty rooms The other half lived …

By Virginia K. Smith |September 23, 2016 - 12:59PM