The fire marshal is investigating the cause of an all-hands fire that broke out at Breukelen Houses on Friday morning. The blaze began just after 9:30 a.m. on the first floor of a three-story ...
CM Torres led a public housing committee hearing in Brooklyn (all photos: Katrina Shakarian) "Fix the locks! Put up security cameras!" called out Olivia Taylor from a corner of the Breukelen Houses' ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. On Friday, trash was piling up at the ...
There’s a troubling status quo for many of the 400,000 New Yorkers who reside in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) apartments: water dripping through ceilings, stoves that catch on fire, mold ...
Tenants at the Breukelen Houses in Canarsie are fed up with their living conditions, and they've come up with unique ways to ask for help. Calvin Drumgo made a music video with lyrics and pictures ...
After the partial collapse of a NYCHA building in the Bronx, tenants are split on how to best address deteriorating conditions in the city’s public housing stock. Stay in underfunded Section 9, or ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It was an exciting year for thousands of Staten Islanders living in two of the borough’s New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) complexes, with the city breaking ground on ...