New York City Housing Authority

Which NY Agencies Are the Worst at Responding to Freedom of Information Requests?

The NYPD and New York City Housing Authority are some of the worst offenders when it comes to disclosing information to the public, according to a new report put out by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio. Between January and March of 2011, New York City agencies received 9,970 requests for information- ... More >>

NYCHA's Willingness to Meet With Frustrated Red Hook Residents Makes For Calm Protest

Red Hook public housing residents and community organizers took it pretty easy on the New York City Housing Authority during their rally outside of the agency's headquarters yesterday. For a community that went weeks without water, heat and electricity, observers might've expected the atmosphere to ... More >>

Sandy, Occupy, and the City's Failures

A Storm of Controversy

In Red Hook Houses, No Power, No Water, and Growing Frustration

Three days after Hurricane Sandy, residents of the Red Hook Houses are still without electricity and water, and are increasingly angry at the lack of response from city, state, and federal officials. About 100 residents gathered at the flagpole near the center of the projects yesterday to voice the ... More >>

Enduring in Red Hook

Stairs, barbecues, and disaster tourists

Sandy's Unequal Impact

For many, the pain is just beginning

Public Housing Residents Fed Up With NYCHA's Rightsizing Transfer Policies

Residents who attended yesterday's City Council Committee on Public Housing hearing accused the New York City Housing Authority of employing aggressive tactics to transfer people out of under-occupied units. NYCHA is out of compliance with The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's mand ... More >>

Boston Consulting Group's Secretive $10 Million Report on NYCHA Not So Shady After All

The Boston Consulting Group's $10 million evaluation of the New York City Housing Authority's central office and infrastructure has all the makings of some good old chunky scandal-soup:1) The chairman of an already cash-strapped NYCHA signs off on a $10 million contract with a private consulting fir ... More >>

City Council to Mayor's Administration: Stop Blaming Homelessness Epidemic on State Legislature and the Economy

At a committee meeting held yesterday, City Council members told the Department of Homeless Services to start coming up with better solutions, not temporary fixes and excuses, to combat the rapid rise of homelessness in the city."We're in crisis mode, and if we don't do something over the next 16 mo ... More >>

The NYCHA Spending Saga Continues as Bloomberg Brings Aid to Agency

On Wednesday, the New York City Housing Authority released a consulting report done by the Boston Consulting Group that painted an ugly picture of what goes on in the largest public housing agency in the country. It was your typical bureaucratic clusterfuck - backlogs, overcharged items, the whole n ... More >>

Council To New York City Housing Authority: Where Is Our Money?

The City Council wants answers: What has the New York City Housing Authority done with $65.4 million? This afternoon City Council held an oversight hearing, which typically do not take place during the summer, to receive an update from the New York City Housing Authority on how it has allocated fund ... More >>

Abuse and Molestation: There's Insurance Coverage For That?

It turns out there is insurance coverage for sexual abuse and molestation. This was brought to our attention by last week's Daily News article that claimed that in the wake of so many recent sex abuse scandals, the city is requiring all contractors who come into contact with youth to carry abuse a ... More >>

Eighty Crime-Ridden NYC Housing Projects to Get Security Cameras

Eighty of New York's most crime-ridden housing developments will be fitted with security cameras over the next year and a half, to deter shootings and theft. This decision occurred after the New York Daily News reported that while the city council had earmarked tens of millions of dollars for the ... More >>

New Brooklyn Home for the Nets Will Provide Thousands of Local Jobs, Bloomberg Brags

This morning, reporters wearing hard hats entered the massive construction site of the future home of the Nets in Brooklyn to hear Mayor Mike Bloomberg brag about the thousands of jobs the project will provide for neighborhood residents. But there seemed to be a bit of confusion in the question-an ... More >>

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz Wants Brownsville to be the Next Tech Mecca

​The Brooklyn State of the Borough address is tonight, and Borough President Marty Markowitz is expected to announce a contest to attract tech manufacturers to Brownsville and East New York. Markowitz said he targeted these neighborhoods because of their high unemployment rates and the read ... More >>

NYC's Ten Worst Tenants

We hope you don't live next to these people

How Can a Religious Person Justify Being a Slumlord?

The Cherpumple: A Turducken for Your Sweet Tooth; Nutrition Prof Goes on Twinkie Diet & Loses 27 Lbs.

​Top chefs are opening restaurants in the Caribbean, including Alain Ducasse, who opened Mix on the Beach at the W Retreat & Spa in Puerto Rico, and Eric Ripert, who has Blue by Eric Ripert at the Ritz-Carlton in Grand Cayman. [NY Times] Researchers are looking into what makes people love cer ... More >>

Brownsville Before the Stop-And-Frisks: From Neglect to Harassment

The Times' front page reveals this morning that the NYPD did 52,000 stop and frisks in an eight-square-block area of the Brownsville section of Brooklyn over the last four years, making arrests in less than one percent of the cases. On a single day in January 2009, cops stopped 109 people and bagg ... More >>

Teen Suspects in Staten Island Beating Found Using Stop-and-Frisk Database

NY1​A database created in 2001 to document racial patterns in the NYPD's stop-and-frisks was used this week to find four teenagers who allegedly robbed and beat a Mexican immigrant in what the victim is calling a racial attack on Staten Island Monday.

Bedford-Stuy Projects Probably Not Most Apropos Place for Prison-Themed Playground

​Here is an instance where one can watch a complete lack of institutionalized tact unfold, if there ever was or is such a thing.

Bill de Blasio Pleads with Bloomberg to Return to the Enlightened Homeless Policies of Rudy Giuliani

On Monday the Times ran an article saying new Public Advocate Bill de Blasio "Assails Bloomberg's Performance on Homelessness." This is curious, as de Blasio's pitch is described later in the article pithily thus: "Mr. de Blasio offered several suggestions on how to improve conditions for the homel ... More >>

At Cy Vance Swearing-in Ceremony, One Mayor Missing

​Mike Bloomberg couldn't make yesterday evening's giant swearing-in ceremony at the Great Hall at City College for new Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance. Ex-mayor Ed Koch was there, as was David Dinkins, who gave a sweet speech hailing Vance as someone who cared as much about preventing cri ... More >>

Have You Seen... Persistent Bronx Burglar

​On July 15th, the man pictured is believed to have burglarized a New York City Housing Authority storage facility at 1368 Webster Avenue in The Bronx. He must have gotten the impression from the lack of response that he'd gotten away with it, and so returned to the same facility on October 11 ... More >>

NYCHA: Pit Bulls, 26 Other Breeds Prohibited from the Projects

If you live in the projects, starting May 1 there are 27 breeds of dog you will not be permitted to keep in your apartment, per a New York City Housing Authority decree. The local press naturally focuses on the pit bulls, rottweilers, and dobermans excluded by this policy, as these will stir in old ... More >>

Muralist Chico Gets Tribute, Plaque from NYCHA

The painting on which he and Tats Crew recently collaborated suggests a new direction for Chico, the ubiquitous Lower East Side graffitist. Or maybe we just feel so because Chico is leaving New York after 30-plus years of wall-painting, and his departure provokes our nostalgia. There was a time when ... More >>

In the Projects, Timing Elevators

Grannies and Gramps to City: Show Us the Senior Center Money

Bringing Down the House

A Brooklyn housing project, once home to 1,200, now houses just two.

NYC's Cheap Housing Policy: Too Pricey?

Abdur Rahman Farrakhan

'When he came in, all the problems came in'

Close-Up on Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

Close-Up on Two Bridges, Manhattan

The Visible Man

Davis Touched All the Bases in a Volatile Brooklyn District

Only Seeing Green

King Kong Landlord Boots Out the Blind on 44th Street

Big Brother in Coney Island

Crime Fighting vs. Civil Liberties in Housing Projects

Amnesty Threat

Housing Authority Asks Residents to Fess Up and Pay

Mel Blank

Bush’s Housing Secretary Martinez Is a Great Unknown

The Grinch of the Grand Concourse

Landlord Warms Up to Rudy but Chills Tenants

In 'Voluntary' Servitude

Tenants Vow to Boycott Lazio's Law

Home Breaker: Doing Community Disservice

Lazio’s Housing Bill Was So Bad It Made D'Amato Seem Reasonable

Gratuities Included

Among New York’s Wheel Greasers and Palm Ticklers, Real Estate Types Lead the Pack

Inside Apartment A42

Inside Apartment A42

A Homeless Family Confronts the City’s New Work-for-Shelter Rules 

Letters

Unwelcome Mat

New Public Housing Rules Shun the Poorest New Yorkers

The Fix Is Out

Public Housing Crumbles on republicans’ Watch

Wrecking-Ball Budget

Giuliani's Plan Knocks Tenants

Patronage Outrage

'Wired' Official Neglected Sidewalk Safety Outside School Where Child Died

Rudy's Inner Child

The Mayor's Temper Costs ACORN Contract