Seventy-one percent said they were against any city subsidy for the project.

The average city subsidy per apartment has been $36,000, usually in the form of a 1 percent loan.

At the end of March, however, the city subsidy ran out, and it proved no longer profitable to continue the service.

These houses were bought new for about $65,000 nine years ago, when the city subsidy was $10,000 a house.

Now, it is back in a gallery space under a city subsidy.

The project was constructed by another company with a city subsidy in the form of a 70 percent tax exemption.

That transaction would include about $20 million in city subsidies.

Buyers received city subsidies of about $100,000 for each building.

The drivers work for private companies that get city subsidies.

Information on how to apply for the city subsidies is available at (212) 685-5575.