As Hurricane Ida dumped record-breaking rainfall on Queens last September, officials at the New York City Housing Authority’s Woodside Houses made a calculated decision.
Rather than allow the quickly pooling water to flood the complex’s first-floor apartments, where a number of seniors and people with mobility issues lived, they’d divert the water to the Woodside Houses’ boiler room, effectively ruining the heavy machinery that generates heat and hot water for the nearly 3,000 residents who live there.
In the aftermath of the storm – which killed 11 people in Queens – NYCHA placed several mobile boilers throughout the complex and promised to have the permanent machines up and running by April 2022.
Read the full report here: https://queenseagle.com/all/2022/10/5/heat-and-hot-water-woes-continue-at-woodside-houses
