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

… Trying to make it work as a middleclass New Yorker can be a stressful endeavor to put it … was keeping empty land in Central Park while the middle classes are being driven out of the City by excessive rents … 8500 basement cells without heat light ventilation and of course plubming … New York was threatening to become a city …

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