Rachel Billings
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The Evolution (Or Lack Thereof) of New York City’s Public Housing System: How The Projects Came To Be
For all of us in New York and around the country, we are living in a time when change is in high demand. But change can not happen without knowledge and reflection. The first step towards enacting change in areas like public housing is by understanding how the problems came to be in the first place.
By Rachel Billings4 years ago in The Swamp
Angels on the Platform
Sleeping on a subway is like floating through space. You’re hurtled towards an unknown destination without moving an inch, flashes of light occasionally curtaining your eyelids in between the stretches of inky emptiness. Lying on the back-aching, creamsicle-colored seats is the closest you’ll get to anti-gravitational suspension, one of the few things that you vaguely remember happens in space (it’s hard to know these things when you never got past the tenth grade and astronomy was an eleventh grade luxury). The other passengers-- middle-aged moms taking their kids to the zoo or vanilla businessmen on their way to another mind-numbing morning of meetings-- are like those space rocks that float in and out of your limited attention span: as long as they don’t touch you, they’re not a threat.
By Rachel Billings4 years ago in Humans