"This is where we used to live"

I thought of that song by the Barenaked Ladies today called, "The Old Apartment" that goes, "Broke into the old apartment...This is where we used to live..." I drove by the apartments that I used to live in, and by the picture you can see what has happened to it! (by the way, that isn't the exact building that I lived in, mine is still standing across the street, waiting for it's turn to be knocked down, and if the door hadn't been bolted closed I probably would have gone up into my old apartment...)

As I was driving home today, I took hwy 170 to hwy 40 and glanced over from the highway to the apartments I used to live in. I usually look at them when I drive by, because I heard that they were going to tear them down. Well today when I looked I didn't see the corner building. I made a bee-line for the next exit and doubled back to check it out. Wow. It's kinda weird to see a building you used to live in being torn down and destroyed.

Manhassett Village. I lived there for just one year. I didn't even really like living there! The office staff were terrible, it took forever to get maintenance - when they actually took care of it! My ceiling/window leaked and all they offered was to paint over the wall stains, not fix the problem outside. The grounds are not kept up or cleaned, the parking lots are not lit well enough, there was a criminal incident in one of the back parking lots. Yeah, needless to say, I couldn't wait to move.

The thing is that those apartments were the only ones in the area that are affordable to people/students who don't have a ton of money. They are replacing them with 500 condominium units ranging from 2-story town homes, mid-rise buildings and a 15-story high-rise building. I'll bet that these new units aren't going to be affordable!

Time to say good bye to a crap hole of Manhassett Village.