HELPING FLOOD-DAMAGED NYCHA TENANTS
Myself, Assemblyman Michael Blake and City Councilmember Vanessa Gibson are working with the New York City Housing Authority to help tenants after major flooding at the Morrisania Air Rights Complex on Park Ave. by E 158th St. in Melrose.
Water pipes burst there on Sunday and Monday, sending water cascading down from the 20th and 17th floors, flooding tenants’ apartments.
Service on the 20-story building’s two elevators was also knocked out, forcing tenants, many of them elderly and infirm to use the stairs.
We hope to see the city quickly begin repairs and provide compensation to tenants to help them replace destroyed furnishings.
We also need to make sure there is a thorough examination of the building’s other water pipes to make sure this was only a one-time occurrence.
I, along with Assemblyman Blake and Councilmember Gibson toured the building on Monday, and I returned the next day to survey cleanup efforts and personally pitched in to mop floors in some elderly tenants’ apartments.
We all want to help in any way we can to see these tenants return to their normal lives as quickly as possible.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF CECILIA HERNANDEZ
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