Instant Rehabilitation
Instant Rehabilitation
A lower East Side tenement in Manhattan becomes a bright, sparkling modern apartment complex in just forty-eight hours. Demolition crews move in, take out floors, walls, windows, etc. Then kitchen-bathroom units go in through the roof. 48 hours later, Instant Apartments! It's a joint city-state-federal-private project with more to come. LS/TLS construction crews rehabbing a tenement, using wheelbarrows to haul debris away. Panning Markings on walls designating points of demolition. Sign hanging from balcony of fire escape: "Instant Rehab: A Demonstration of Rapid Rehabilitation of the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development & the City of New York". Zoom out to LS tenement building, series of fire escapes. Multiracial lower income families crossing street. Display of keys. New York Mayor JOHN LINDSAY giving new apartment key to girl at ceremony. TLS construction crew, all wearing hard hats, leaning over rail of stairs at ceremony. Panning Young African-American woman walking down narrow hallway of rehabbed apartment, entering kitchen. This can very well be the conception of Rehabilitation of homes and apartment buildings.