Tag: NYCHA

News

Virtual meeting between NYCHA-Disaster Recovery department and EPA

The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Disaster Recovery department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held a virtual meeting on Thursday about the soil sampling at the Red Hook Houses related to Sandy construction. There was also an update about the two recent gas outages at the Red Hook Houses caused by the construction that has been happening. Joy […]

Carlos Menchaca, Column, Op Ed, Red Hook News

Opinion- Words by George: The new age of local government’s benign neglect

On July 27, I got an email from Catherine McBride of the Red Hook Initiative which was pretty different than any I have received at this paper since I started it ten years ago. RHI press releases are generally quite vanilla. They are generally about their Red Hook Hub or else something having to do with their fund raising. This […]

NYCHA

Grand NYCHA rebuilding to be done by 2021

According to what residents heard at the Miccio Center, Red Hook East and West will all have all-new roofs, a new heating system for every building, brand new playgrounds, new doors, surveillance cameras and better security access, together with some nice landscaping by the summer of 2021. The money for all of this comes from FEMA. This is money that […]

NYCHA

Important RH Houses Construction update at the Miccio – tomorrow at 6:30, by Nathan Weiser

On Wednesday, February 7, from 6:30 until 8:00 pm at the Miccio Community Center (110 West 9th Street)  NYCHA and the architects of the new designs for Sandy recovery construction will let the community know exactly where the project stands today, the final project design. The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and their construction firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates […]

NYCHA

NYCHA construction begins five years after Sandy

“It is a great day for this community,” Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez said at the groundbreaking for the construction of Red Hook East and West. “Here we are in a path to recovery. In that sense, we have to make sure the rebuilding we do is one that is built to last.” The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), along with […]

Editorials

Notes and Things, by George Fiala

De Blasio’s Connector Mayor de Blasio began the next phase of his reelection campaign last month. Amidst great fanfare, he introduced the Brooklyn-Queens Connector. Back in 2006, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez allocated $300,000 of federal monies for a feasibility study for a smaller version of it that would connect Red Hook with Jay Street, Borough Hall. The result of that study, […]

NYCHA, Sandy Related

The best NYCHA meeting ever! by George Fiala

In a stunning reversal from the past, NYCHA held a great meeting Monday night at the Miccio Center. The purpose was to present preliminary plans for an upgrade of the Red Hook Houses using money that FEMA has granted for improving the development to better cope with future flood disasters. A common complaint at many prior meetings NYCHA has held since Sandy is […]

Carlos Menchaca, NYCHA, Op Ed, Red Hook Houses, Red Hook Senior Center

In Red Hook we take care of our own, by Carlos Menchaca

Dear Neighbor, It has been almost 30 months since the senior center on Wolcott Street was destroyed by the waters of Super-Storm Sandy. However, the good news is the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is aggressively moving forward with plans to renovate the building next to the Joseph Miccio Community Center to serve as a fully functional senior center […]

Carlos Menchaca, NYCHA, Red Hook Houses

Menchaca, NYCHA Promise Asbestos Safety in Public Housing Construction, by Harrison Neuhaus

Amid construction on Red Hook’s public housing developments, questions about asbestos have been circulating throughout the neighborhood. Resulting from an influx of calls, residents succeeded in grabbing the attention of their elected officials, as New York City Councilman Carlos Menchaca called a meeting to update locals on this process. This evening, Monday July 28, several officials from NYCHA and their […]