Health Department Evaluating NYCHA Apartment Building After Legionnaires' Cases
Tenants can still use and drink the water, but residents with a higher risk for getting the disease are urged to take precautions.
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Tenants can still use and drink the water, but residents with a higher risk for getting the disease are urged to take precautions.
Minneapolis resident and future housing chief Gregory Russ will high tail it out of the city on weekends and holidays.
The new chair of the city's troubled public housing system, Gregory Russ, admits he's praying for a few miracles.
His name is Gregory Russ - the head of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority – and he's the man Bill de Blasio has settled on to cure NYCHA's multi-billion-dollar problems.
The federal monitor appointed to oversee the overhaul of the New York City Housing Authority sent a blistering letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio's interim NYCHA head Kathryn Garcia.
For all the problems facing tenants of the New York City House Authority, Jennifer Calcano never thought sexual harassment in her Upper West Side home by a NYCHA repair man would be one of them.
Several residents of a New York City Housing Authority brownstone on the Upper West Side say they have been without gas in their homes since last Thanksgiving.
A makeshift memorial with candles and flowers is growing outside the apartment building at Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard and 142nd Street.
A violent killing in a New York City Housing Authority building in Brooklyn has prompted resident leaders to demand increased security, which they say could have saved a life.
For the first time ever 135,000 public housing apartments will be tested for lead.
"If the rehab facility reached out and let them know where this gentleman was, someone is incompetent or lazy or both," Patton charged.
Bienvenido Martinez says not only did NYCHA kick him out of his apartment, they also threw away everything he owned, including his social security card and treasured family photos.
New York had a midnight federal deadline to appoint a new chair to oversee the troubled city housing authority.
Housing and Urban Development Director Lynne Patton shined the spotlight on another NYCHA nightmare on Friday.
"Should criminal charges be pursued?" Marcia Kramer asked. "I personally think they should… deception and fraud… blatant deception and fraud," Lynne Patton alleged.
The New York City Housing Authority has embarked on the first phase of a $1 billion plan to replace aging boilers that have left tens of thousands shivering in the homes.
Firefighters were able to put out the flames inside a 20-story building in the Wilson Houses on East 105th Street.
Police said the suspect knocked on the victim's door, displayed a gun and demanded money. He then burned the man on the knees with a hot knife before stealing $300.
Longstanding problems with the New York City Housing Authority are getting political, with everyone from the president to the mayor sounding off this weekend.
On Friday, Carson chose Bart M. Schwartz to lead HUD's efforts in making sure NYCHA deals with the poor and potentially dangerous conditions within New York City's public housing units.
Federal housing official Lynne Patton is taking a break from her NYCHA stay Thursday.
Housing and Urban Development official Lynne Patton ran into a little hiccup in her second week living in the nightmare that is the New York public housing system.
A federal housing official is moving into another New York City public housing unit today to continue her up-close look at the state of NYCHA.
The new head of public housing in New York City had a busy first day on the job on Saturday.
Lynne Patton, regional administrator for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, will spend a month in New York City Housing Authority apartments.
