Joseph Berger writes about a materialisation of “warehoused” apartments in East Harlem:

“In some cases, city housing officials say, landlords are watchful for a regenerated economy to lift rents so that it creates financial clarity to correct plumbing and electrical wiring. In other cases, landlords are ‘warehousing’ apartments for a impulse that a deep-pocketed developer comes along, as has happened in a blocks only north of 96th Street, East Harlem’s southern boundary. In still other cases, it is simply obscure that apartments would be left empty for decades, quite given East Harlem has been a magnet for Mexican and other Latino immigrants, as good as immature strivers looking for inexpensive space.”