Trump’s War on Cities Takes Aim at New York: Francis Wilkinson (Correct)

“This was all wilderness when it started,” said Ed Yaker, surveying the Van Cortlandt Village neighborhood of brick, concrete and stone that forms the Amalgamated Housing Cooperative. Yaker has lived in this attractive, 11-building development in the Bronx for all but seven years since 1944, when he was born. His parents owned an apartment in Amalgamated’s ninth building, which was built in 1931, before the developers got around to building the complex’s eighth building. (Tracking the sequence of construction at Amalgamated is akin to a “Who’s on first?” skit.) “It was a great place to grow up,” said Yaker, the ...