More NYCHA Apartments Without Heat After Snowstorm

NEW YORK, NY -- Hundreds of New York City Housing Authority residents are braving the frigid aftermath of Thursday's powerful storm in the cold after losing heat, hot water or both on Friday morning.

More than 15,000 people braved the snowstorm's heavy snow and high winds in the cold on Thursday after six entire NYCHA developments - the Rutland Towers, Pink Houses and Tilden Houses in Brooklyn, the Woodside Houses in Queens and the Patterson and Sedgwick Houses in The Bronx - lost heat, hot water or both at some point in the day, Patch previously reported.

Both have since been restored in all six of those developments, but by early Friday afternoon six more NYCHA developments - one in Manhattan, two in Brooklyn, two in the Bronx and one in Staten Island - had lost heat, hot water or both, according to the NYCHA's online outage dashboard.

The Wise Towers which houses 354 residents on Manhattan's Upper East Side, lost hot water in the storm on Thursday because of low stream pressure entering the building's hot water unit, said Valeria Munt, NYCHA's deputy press secretary.

All 42 residents of the West Brighton II development in Staten Island also awoke without heat or hot water on Friday morning due to boiler problems, Munt said.

In Brooklyn, the Bushwick II development lost heat and hot water at around 9:30 a.m. on Friday morning, Munt said. Red Hook West also reported a heat outage in one of its buildings, according to the online outage dashboard.

The outage dashboard also showed heat and hot water outages in the Bronx's Randall Avenue - Balcom Avenue development and heat outages in its Soundview development by Friday afternoon.

Munt said NYCHA has had additional staff beyond its usual 24-hour team working round-the-clock to restore outages for the last week. A typical outage is restored within 5 hours, she said.

"Our residents deserve safe, warm homes in the winter and our staff is working dilligently to repair outages as quickly as possible," she said. "We must do better for our residents."

This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

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