#Another step toward saving NYCHA

#Another step toward saving NYCHA

“#Another step toward saving NYCHA” Hopes for the city’s beleaguered public housing agency brightened after Real Estate Weekly reported that Related Cos. and NYCHA struck a deal to manage 2,054 apartments in Manhattan, complete $366 million in renovations and construct a new 100-unit building on unused land. Instead of demolishing the Fulton and Chelsea-Elliott Houses,…

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#NYPD graphic video shows fatal shooting at NYC housing complex

#NYPD graphic video shows fatal shooting at NYC housing complex

“#NYPD graphic video shows fatal shooting at NYC housing complex” Shocking footage released by police early Wednesday captured part of a shooting in a Brooklyn NYCHA development that left a 22-year-old man dead. The medically-masked gunman was caught on footage pumping bullets at two apparently unsuspecting men inside the lobby of the Albany Houses in…

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#Man fatally stabbed inside NYC public housing complex

#Man fatally stabbed inside NYC public housing complex

“#Man fatally stabbed inside NYC public housing complex” A 25-year-old man was fatally stabbed inside a Brooklyn public housing complex on Tuesday night, police said. Alex Colon was found with neck and back stab wounds inside an apartment at the Cypress Hills houses in East New York at about 9:20 p.m., according to police. He…

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#Kathryn Garcia failed NYCHA, she’ll fail again as mayor

#Kathryn Garcia failed NYCHA, she’ll fail again as mayor

“#Kathryn Garcia failed NYCHA, she’ll fail again as mayor” Kathryn Garcia frequently touts her administrative talents as reasons for voters to elect her mayor. But a group of tenant-association leaders are calling a foul on her handling of the New York City Housing Authority’s lead-paint crisis when she served as interim NYCHA chief. In an…

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#Man fatally shot outside of Brooklyn NYCHA complex

#Man fatally shot outside of Brooklyn NYCHA complex

“#Man fatally shot outside of Brooklyn NYCHA complex” A 23-year-old man was fatally shot outside of a Brooklyn public housing complex on Wednesday night, police said. The victim was shot in his face in front of a building at NYCHA’s Marlboro Houses in Gravesend at about 10:45 p.m., cops said. He was unconscious and unresponsive…

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#NYPD housing cop dies from COVID-19

#NYPD housing cop dies from COVID-19

“#NYPD housing cop dies from COVID-19” A 42-year-old NYPD housing police officer in the Bronx died of COVID-19 on Sunday, the city’s largest police union wrote on Twitter. “One year into this pandemic, COVID has claimed the life of another PBA member, PO Angel M. Santiago of @NYPDPSA7,” the Police Benevolent Association said. “The sacrifice…

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