Polo Grounds Houses In Photos

Tenant maintains his apartment despite bad conditions around him in the Polo Grounds Houses. Photo by Antonio Di Caterina

Antonio Di Caterina visited the Polo Grounds Houses several times as part of his story with Soreily Sarante about the bad conditions in the public housing development. His photos take you there.

Entrance to the Polo Grounds Houses. Photo by Antonio Di Caterina
Broken front door lock in the Polo Grounds Houses. Photo by Antonio Di Caterina.
Inside the front door of a building in the Polo Grounds Houses. Photo by Antonio Di Caterina.
Tenant passes trash in the hall at the Polo Grounds Houses. Photo by Antonio Di Caterina.

What’s making the paint peel and buckle in the hallway of a building in the Polo Ground Houses? Photo by Antonio Di Caterina.
Leaky ceiling in the bathroom of an apartment in the Polo Grounds Houses. Photo by Antonio Di Caterina.
Cracked flooring in a bathroom in the Polo Grounds Houses. Photo by Antonio Di Caterina.
Hole in the floor of an apartment in the Polo Grounds Houses. Photo by Antonio Di Caterina.
Hole in the floor of an apartment in the Polo Grounds Houses. Photo by Antonio Di Caterina.
Plastic covers a broken window to keep out the cold in an apartment in the Polo Grounds Houses. Photo by Antonio Di Caterina.
Roberto Evangelista renovated his apartment in the Polo Grounds Houses and tries to maintain it himself. Photo by Antonio Di Caterina.
Roberto Evangelista renovated the kitchen in his apartment in the Polo Grounds Houses. Photo by Antonio Di Caterina
Lights out in the hallway of a building in the Polo Grounds Houses. Photo by Antonio Di Caterina.
Lights out in the hallway of a building in the Polo Grounds Houses. Photo by Antonio Di Caterina.