Raanan Geberer: Red Hook, Coney and the Housing Authority
The news that weeks after Hurricane Sandy, large numbers of apartments in New York City Housing Authority and Red Hook housing projects were still without power doesn’t come as that much of a surprise to me.
A few blocks from where I live are the Chelsea-Elliott Houses, another Housing Authority project. Although Chelsea-Elliott wasn’t hit by the storm, for some reason, one of the buildings once had an emergency boiler van parked outside, with pipes leading into the building.
It took over a year – I’m not kidding – for the emergency boiler van to disappear, probably meaning that it took that long to either fix or replace the boiler.