“These disputes point to a thriving dichotomy in New York, the inclination among many of us to decry economic inequality even as we live with and accept, either by will or by default, significant economic and social segregation. It is for this reason that the experiment underway at the Manny Cantor Center on East Broadway — an effort to convene the well-off, the middle class and the poor, the neighborhood’s 90-year-old Jews and 30-year-old Chinese immigrant mothers — seems almost mythic, the resurrection of a city that exists now largely in fantasy.”
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/nyregion/a-community-center-for-all-income-levels.html?_r=1
