A Wonderful New Housing Project

I hope they remember to prominently display the new "food plate" that replaced the "food pyramid".

A new Bronx co-op apartment building is designed to help combat obesity.

The building, called the Melody, has a backyard with brightly colored exercise equipment for adults, and climbing equipment for children. It also has both indoor and outdoor fitness centers.

City officials say it's the first in New York to be built with design elements aimed at countering obesity.

Two flights of stairs feature silhouettes of dancing women and jazz playing through speakers and motivational signs posted throughout the building tout the benefits of exercise.

A sign posted between the elevator and stairs, for example, notes that stairs are a healthy choice.

Oh for Pete's sake.  Who the hell thinks up this idiocy?  The poor people these units are built for must be howling with laughter as they waddle off to Mickey D's.  And just what group constitutes the classification of "poor" in the Bronx?

The 63-unit building houses 63 units and is for families with incomes of $90,000 or less. Fourteen of the units will be owned by Habitat for Humanity's New York City chapter families who helped build the project.

 Ninety thou is poor?  If we move the bar for the "poverty level" any further, Donald Trump will be buying his pizza with food stamps.  You can read the rest of the story here.  Hat tip to the doom 'n' gloomers at Drudge.