Residents of a NYCHA complex in Queens have been without heat and hot water as temperatures have dropped, according to tenants and elected officials speaking in front of the Woodside Houses on Wednesday.
The entire housing complex has been without heat since at least Tuesday, Councilmember Julie Won said at a press conference. Officials said reports of outages started trickling over the last few days, as daytime temperatures dropped below 55 degrees Fahrenheit — the city-mandated threshold for landlords to keep homes heated at a minimum temperature.
“They don’t want us to put our ovens on. They don’t want us to have heaters. All I want is heat to keep my bones warm!” said Jean Chapel, who is the recording secretary of the board for the tenant association and has cancer.
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