Maybe landlords will label the doors “Gamma”, “Delta” or “Epsilon” and give the tenants different keys based on their social standing. Perhaps they will just make them scale a fence or navigate through obstacles to get into the building. This story is not all that clear on the details, but the “poor door” is coming to a reservation near you.

New York City has approved a developer’s Dickensian plan to include a “poor door” in a luxury apartment complex in the Upper West Side.

The prospect of a separate entrance for lower-income residents has been circulating for some time, but as the New York Postreported today, plans by company Extell Development to put a separate entrance for affordable housing tenants, who make 60 percent or less of median income, in the 33-story condo have been given the green light. The property will have 219 units, including 55 affordable units overlooking the street. Those renting and buying the apartments at the market-rate will have waterfront views.

The entrance is part of the Inclusionary Housing Program application, under which developers can build larger projects if they also provide low-income housing, either on- or off-site.

The mock outrage by the snooty writer is tiresome. Liberals have been self-segregating for years. They have driven most of the NAM population out of San Francisco. They are doing the same in DC, where blacks are no longer a majority. Similarly, gentrification in NYC is intended to drive away the NAM population so young professionals like Lucy Westcott can live in trendy urban neighborhoods.

Beyond that, it is just the natural evolution of the servant’s entrance. Before we got all of these egalitarian ideas in our heads, it was simply understood that the rich did not want to mix it up with the poor. Big houses had a separate entrance for the cooks, nannies, gardeners and other staff. For live-in staff, there were quarters on the edge of the property or maybe above the carriage house or garage. No one thought it strange or mean, especially not the servants. The poor have always known their place.

The approval of the entrance at 40 Riverside has prompted outrage, with many on social media calling it nothing more than an updated version of segregation. ThinkProgress’ report notes that issues affecting low-income tenants in luxury buildings — which include not being allowed to use perks like the gym or pools — usually fall on people of color.

Brooklyn Magazine points out that it’s “not an unusual scheme” to include affordable housing units in fancy buildings that will remain, for most people, mere real estate fantasies. But New York Magazine reminds us that the entrance will serve the purpose of  “[sparing] all the residents from the terrible awkwardness of regularly encountering people whose lifestyles differ from theirs, or something.”

The only people outraged are the credentialed urban lefties who think it is grossly unfair that they don’t get to live like the over-class. That’s the dirty little secret of the meritocracy. The truly poor now live on welfare. The dwindling working class is supplemented by indirect welfare payments like public schools, free health insurance and so forth. The urban middle lass is now the servant class to the rich. Young Lucy Westcott, is merely a servant for the rich people signing her paychecks.

That’s why the people most outraged by inequality are the urban credentialed lefties of the managerial class. They were told all along they were special little snowflakes and destined to rule the world. Now they find out that the rich are nothing like them and they will never be in that class. Instead, they will be the modern equivalent of footmen, chauffeurs and coat holders to the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world. They don’t like it one bit, so we get these tantrums.