Public Housing Tries to Lift Boilers out of Danger
Friday, January 10, 2014
A federal grant would provide back-up generators for complexes like the Red Hook Houses, above, that lost power during Sandy.
(Shelley Bernstein/flickr)
Public housing officials are planning to raise many of the
system's boilers high enough so that another storm like Sandy would not
knock them out again.
The New York City Housing Authority has applied to the Federal
Emergency Management Agency for $175 million under the Hazard Mitigation
Grant Program. In certain complexes, boilers may be moved to higher
floors or lifted on stilts, while 15 developments would receive
permanent back-up emergency generators. Sen. Chuck Schumer and other elected officials threw their support behind the application Friday.
About 80,000 public housing residents lost heat, hot water and power because flooding from Sandy knocked out equipment in building basements. The money, if approved, will go towards complexes on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Coney Island, the Rockaways and elsewhere.
About 80,000 public housing residents lost heat, hot water and power because flooding from Sandy knocked out equipment in building basements. The money, if approved, will go towards complexes on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Coney Island, the Rockaways and elsewhere.
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Matthew Schuerman, Editor, WNYC
Matthew Schuerman joined WNYC in December 2007 as the transportation and economic development reporter. He covered repeated financial crises at the MTA, the most severe transit cuts in decades, as well as the impact of the recession on the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn and the World Trade Center redevelopment in Lower Manhattan. Since 2010, Schuerman has been an editor in the WNYC newsroom. In addition, he has recently reported a number of Sandy-related stories.
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