Look at 1 West End Avenue. Look how shiny it is. How tall. Contemplate the view. Savor it. If you're among the people slated to rent one of its 118 units of affordable housing, you won't be seeing it from this angle often, because you'll be entering through the back door.

New York YIMBY brings us the first full rendering of the controversial Manhattan apartment complex, which—like its neighbor at 40 Riverside Boulevard—will include a separate entrance for affordable housing tenants.

In July, Mayor de Blasio's office announced its intention to change the zoning code that allows developers to build poor-door buildings, telling Newsweek it "fundamentally [disagrees] with that approach.

As Curbed points out, the non-rich tenants at 1 West End will still be treated to a slew of amenities:

As such, the poor door in Larry Silverstein's and El Ad Properties' Riverside Center tower at 1 West End Avenue will be made of wood, lead into a glassy lobby, and face a park, the Wall Street Journal reports. The tenants of the affordable segment, which is being called 10 Freedom Place, will also have access to a courtyard and roof deck that will be shared with the market-rate condo owners. So, the two entrances, while separate, will also be... equal? Great, problem solved.

So there's that.

To be clear, there are many, many more pressing issues the city must work through in order to meet its ambitious and vitally necessary affordable housing goal. But if developers are going to continue to receiving enormous tax breaks for building affordable units—or if they'd like to continue to think of themselves as decent humans—they'd do well to treating the people who live in them like eyesores to be avoided.

[h/t Curbed]