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Family Of Man Shot By Cop In Brooklyn Stairwell Sues NYPD & Housing Authority
Akai Gurley The mother of Akai Gurley's child filed a wrongful death lawsuit today against the Police Department, NYCHA, and the two officers who were patrolling the dark stairwell of an East New York public housing...
De Blasio Will Announce Sweeping Plan To End NYC Housing Authority's Money Problems
The Polo Grounds Towers (Edward Blake) Today Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce his plan to save the New York City Housing Authority from its financial problems and add to his goal of creating and preserving...
Advocates Demand More Public Housing Apartments Be Given To Homeless Families
NYCHA resident Ann Valdez speaking at today's rally. (Jennifer Flynn, NYCHA) Homeless advocacy group Homes For Every New Yorker (HFENY) released a report yesterday urging Mayor de Blasio to set aside 2,500 New York City Housing...
NYCHA Will Get $100M For Energy-Efficient Upgrades
(Andriy Prokopenko / Flickr) Cash-strapped New York City Housing Authority will get a financial boost to the tune of $100 million, intended to make some much-needed energy-efficient building improvements. The initiative, funded primarily by the U.S....
Man Beat Pregnant Woman For Not Thanking Him For Holding Door Open
Suspect Darryl Guillyard (DCPI); Lakeeya Walker (screenshot via ABC) Police are on the hunt for a man who allegedly beat a pregnant woman—and told her he was going to kill her baby—in a Manhattan housing complex,...
67-Year-Old Widow Arrested For Calling 311 Too Much
(lempkin / Flickr) A 67-year-old Bronx resident is suing the city after she claims she was arrested for calling 311 too many times. But widow Arles Cepeda tells the Daily News she had a damn good...
Can The Guy Who Helped Waste Millions In Newark Help Save NYC Public Housing?
(Andriy Prokopenko / Flickr) Approximately 400,000 people live in NYC's public housing system, struggling to make their homes in crime-ridden developments with often squalid conditions. The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) needs billions just to...
Reports: NYCHA Is Broke, Incompetent, & Can't Keep The Lights On
(Andriy Prokopenko / Flickr) Shortly after 28-year-old Akai Gurley was shot and killed by a rookie NYPD officer last month in the stairwell of the Pink Houses, police and City officials confirmed that the lights in...
Maybe Another $101 Million Will Finally Make NYCHA Developments Safe?
A surveillance camera (top right) affixed to a NYCHA building overlooks the intersection of 40th Avenue and 10th Street where Ryo Oyamada was fatally run over by an NYPD officer. (Gothamist) This afternoon Mayor de Blasio...
NYCHA Selling A Stake Of Its Apartments For Fast Cash
(Andriy Prokopenko / Flickr) New York City's public housing authority is operating on a $77 million budget deficit. That's not counting the $18 billion dollars it needs to repair its decrepit housing stock. In order to...
NYCHA Screwed Up Paperwork For More Surveillance Cameras
(Andriy Prokopenko / Flickr) After 6-year-old P.J. Avitto was fatally stabbed in the elevator of a public housing complex in East New York, police had no surveillance footage of Avitto's killer because the city's housing authority...
Domestic Violence Has Surged In NYC Public Housing
The Smith Houses near City Hall (NYCHA's flickr). Violent crime in public housing is way up, due in large part to a spike in domestic violence incidents. According to data from the city, the surge in...
Can NYC Turn Parking Spaces Into Affordable Housing?
(dannythefox on Flickr) New Yorkers need affordable housing, not concrete daycare for our metal death machines, yet current zoning requirements mandate that developers build parking spaces for residential buildings of a certain size. Three architects have...
NYC Public Housing Needs Billions Just To Stop Disintegrating Further
The Smith Houses near City Hall (NYCHA's flickr). The devolving public housing situation in NYC is just getting worse, and the New York City Housing Authority requires an injection of about $18 billion just to make...
NYCHA Not Hiring Enough Public Housing Residents, Audit Finds
The Smith Houses near City Hall (NYCHA's flickr). An audit has shown that The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) failed to meet their own hiring requirements, subsequently depriving public housing and low-income New Yorkers of...
Cameras Will Finally Be Installed At Brooklyn Housing Project Where Kids Were Stabbed
Prince Joshua Avitto and Mikayala Capers Mayor de Blasio announced today that the city will be installing security cameras in six public housing developments citywide. One of those NYCHA developments is Boulevard Houses in East New...
NYCHA Trying To Force 91-Yr-Old WWII Vet To Move Into Smaller Apartment
The New York City Housing Authority has come under fire in the past for threatening to evict elderly New Yorkers, and it seems not much has changed recently: a 91-year-old WWII veteran says NYCHA is demanding...
Should Luxury Apartments Be Built On Public Housing Property?
The Alfred E. Smith Houses are located in lower Manhattan. 1,151 apartments would be created in two new residential buildings, replacing 16 Parking Spaces, a Garbage Compactor Yard, and a Paved Baseball Field & Basketball Court...
Lawsuit Forces NYCHA To Remove Mold In Days, Not Months
A lawsuit and settlement agreement filed in federal court will force NYCHA to swiftly remove mold from public housing units. Previously the housing authority had painted over or bleached moldy walls, which caused residents with asthma and...
NYCHA Units Sit Empty For Years Despite Desperate Demand For Housing
The Smith Houses near City Hall (NYCHA's flickr). Hundreds of public housing units have laid vacant for years, while the city loses $1.4 million annually in rent and 220,000 people languish on waiting lists. According to...
NYCHA Moves To Evict 100-Year-Old Woman From The Lower East Side
The Rutgers Houses (Google Maps) The New York City Housing Authority has served an eviction notice on a 100-year-old woman who has lived in the Lower East Side since 1964, claiming that she unlawfully resides in...
Lawsuit Challenges Bloomberg Plan To Lease Public Housing Land To Luxury Developers
And so the Bloomberg backlash continues—the City Council announced this week that they're suing the administration for trying to lease public housing developments' land to private luxury high rise developers. The New York City Housing Authority...
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