In the first 11 years of its existence, the Battery Park City Authority, whose members had been appointed by Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, struggled valiantly and unsuccessfully to develop housing integrated with upper-, middle- and low-income families (“‘Banks’ of the Hudson,” Dec. 26).
According to The Post’s analysis of 2005 income returns, Battery Park City, whose housing market was determined by Authority members appointed by Democrat Hugh Carey, was one of two areas in the city that “had the highest percentage of city residents reporting more than $100,000 of taxable income.”
How ironic that a Republican administration, with a stereotypical image of favoring the rich, had sought to provide housing for all income levels, and a supposedly more liberal Democratic administration abandoned that effort in order to insure its own success record.
Avrum Hyman,
The Bronx