via NYC Mayor’s Office
Jan. 4, 2018 By Nathaly Pesantez
Residents at the Woodside Houses were left without heat and hot water beginning this morning as heavy snow and winds were ravaging the city.
Earlier screenshot of NYCHA outages page. Woodside Houses outages are blocked in red.
The New York City Housing Authority’s website showed heat and hot water outages through the entire 1,350 apartment-development at 50-51 Broadway just after 3:30 p.m. Some heat, however, has been partially restored.
“There is low heat at Woodside, but as soon as National Grid completes their repairs we will be able to restore full heat for the entire development,” said Jasmine Blake, acting press secretary for NYCHA.
The two outages occurred at around 11 a.m. today., Blake said, as the housing agency set up an incident command center to manage the winter storm.
“We expect full restoration in a couple hours,” she added.
Both Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Woodside) and Mayor Bill de Blasio visited the Woodside Houses earlier today.
“When we heard that heat was out at the #WoodsideHouses we joined the @NYCMayor in rushing to the development to monitor the situation and restore heat,” reads a tweet from Van Bramer’s account. “We will stay on it. Stay safe everyone.”
NYCHA added that it has dispatched roving teams throughout the city to address outages.
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The one and only solution – make the landlords switch from their abode to the tenants’ apartments – and pass a bill to make this move legal everywhere.
The landlord is the City of New York. Who are are you going to move in, the mayor, city council, taxpayers? It’s a great idea for a really bad movie, not the real world.
How bout those rent controlled apartments!!!
THEYRE GRRRREEEEAAAAAAT!
Tweddle dumb and tweedle do nothing.
How is Yimmy fixing these boilers without even bringing a tool box? Must be some socialist magic he and Comrade Wilhelm have cooked up. Meanwhile, half the residents in NYCHA buildings are without heat.
Watch JVB and Mayor Wilhelm here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXHVVXAcNYM
the mayor was already in Corona so who was rushing and of course JVB loves his photo-ops what about other people that had no heat — they did not rush to them — this is the mayor’s job to see that these projects are run correcctly not JVB —
I agree with this where were they for four weeks that an entire court had no water or heat at all…