Immigrant elders find relief with affordable housing in NYC, but feel isolated from community
This article originally appeared on the India Home blog.
Nurul Khan and his wife Farida Begum are an older Bengali couple from Queens who lived for 30 years in damp basement apartments in Jamaica, Queens.
“It was so damp I got arthritis,” Farida Begum said to visitors recently. “The basement was freezing.”
The visitors were in Farida Begum’s brand new apartment on 96th Avenue. Tiny and spry, the 58 year old rushed about the apartment getting us snacks and making chai on her brand new stovetop.
“I never saw the sun for all those years. My body used to.... Read More