Follow NYCHA     November 13, 2012 The New York City Housing Authority continues to restore power, heat and hot water to developments currently without service due to the storm. During the past week NYCHA has returned heat and hot water to many buildings across the city and is working with the utility companies and other government agencies to restore these essential services to every NYCHA resident as quickly as possible. - On Monday, November 12, 2012, because of actions we took, the lights came back on for approximately 3,390 residents of 16 buildings in 5 NYCHA developments. That means that today, power has been restored to around 99 percent of all buildings where it went out after Sandy.
- In addition, yesterday, we were able to get heat and hot water restored to 121 residents of 2 buildings. That means today that these services have been restored to 75.6 percent of all buildings that lost heat and hot water during the hurricane.
Below is the list of developments where we restored power or heat and hot water yesterday: - Red Hook East - 3 buildings housing 703 residents - power
- Red Hook West - 2 buildings housing 907 residents - power
- O'Dwyer Gardens - 3 buildings housing 500 residents - power
- Surfside Gardnes - 3 buildings housing 500 residents - power
- Surfside Gardens - 4 buildings housing 790 residents - power is now fully restored
- Redfern - 2 buildings housing 492 residents - power is now fully restored
- Lower East Side Rehab (Group 5) - 2 buildings housing 121 residents - heat
Current Status: ELECTRICAL - After Sandy hit, there were 402 buildings without electricity housing approximately 79,000 people.
- 396 buildings housing 78,338 residents have had their electricity restored.
- Currently there are 6 buildings within 3 developments in Brooklyn (Coney Island and Red Hook) housing approximately 990 residents where electricity is still out.
Developments Without Electricity Brooklyn - O'Dwyer Gardens- 6 buildings housing 974 residents
- Red Hook East- 10 out of 18 buildings housing 1,393 residents.
- Red Hook West- 9 out of 14 buildings housing 2,242 residents.
- Gowanus-1 out of 15 buildings housing 320 residents.
NYCHA staff is working hard to make repairs or provide temporary alternatives so that most or perhaps all of these buildings can have their power up today or tomorrow. HEAT AND HOT WATER - After Sandy hit, there were 386 buildings housing approximately 77,000 people without heat and hot water.
- We have restored heat and hot water to 292 buildings housing approximately 58,798 people.
- Currently there are 94 buildings throughout 13 developments affecting around 18,019 residents without heat.
Developments Without Heat and Hot Water Brooklyn - Carey Gardens- 4 buildings housing 1,642 residents
- Coney Island- 5 buildings housing 1,203 residents
- Coney Island I (Site 8) - 1 building housing 361 residents
- Coney Island I (Sites 4 and 5)- 2 buildings housing 1,075 residents
- Gravesend- 15 buildings housing 1,500 residents
- O'Dwyer Gardens- 6 buildings housing 974 residents
- Surfside Gardens- 5 buildings housing 1,167 residents
- Red Hook East- 8 out of 18 buildings housing 809 residents
- Red Hook West- 14 buildings housing 3,206 residents
Queens - Carleton Manor- 1 building housing 379 residents
- Hammel- 14 buildings housing 1,816 residents
- Ocean Bay Apartments (Bayside)- 24 buildings housing 3,734 residents
- Redfern- 9 buildings housing 1,653 residents
We are in the process of connecting and testing temporary boilers to bring heat and hot water back to the remaining buildings.
SANITATION EFFORTS
Over the last three days, and continuing until all buildings are complete, we dispatched over 100 crews from third-party janitorial companies (and 60 NYCHA crews from non-impacted areas ) to all 26 impacted developments to remove garbage, clean stairwells and halls, and generally sanitize the buildings in an effort to return sanitary conditions back to normal. This will continue until our caretaker crews are able to manage the buildings as before Hurricane Sandy. |
