City officials are close to finalizing a deal to demolish two public housing campuses and replace the apartments in Chelsea. Some NYCHA tenants are making a last attempt to stop the wrecking ball.
Tenants at a pair of public housing campuses in Chelsea are making a last-ditch push to block the city’s plan to demolish their current homes and replace them with new apartment towers.
The Chelsea plan's supporters say this proposal is different. All tenants will be guaranteed places in the new buildings, and just 6% of households will have to move out of their homes before the new apartments are complete, according to aThe two campuses slated for demolition are home to around 4,500 tenants in 2,055 apartments — 1,111 at Chelsea-Elliott and 944 at Fulton.
Related and Essence took over operations at the two campuses through a program that converts NYCHA campuses to private management in 2019. They revived the tear-down plan early last year, after tenants previously rejected a similarthree years ago. But Adams told Gothamist his company assessed the extent of the needed repairs and determined the price tag could equal or outpace a complete rebuild.Miguel Acevedo, tenant association president at the Fulton Houses.
Public housing residents elsewhere in the city say they are watching what happens at the two Chelsea campuses. Miguel Acevedo, the tenant association president at the Fulton Houses, said those fears are misguided. Deteriorating conditions are the real threat to NYCHA residents, he said.
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