The New York City Housing Authority announced an historic plan Wednesday to tear down and rebuild two Manhattan complexes, the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses, in a $1.5 billion plan to revamp the crumbling public housing stock.
replaced with brand-new NYCHA buildings. A far cry from the sorry state of NYCHA’s current housing stock, the new apartments will all have dishwashers, laundry machines, and heating and cooling controlled by residents.
NYCHA claims the whole project can be done within six years, with the project spearheaded by two developers — Essence Development and the Related Companies, which were chosen by a committee of tenant leaders as the “PACT Partners” at the complexes. “Our administration has always put residents front and center in decision-making, and I am excited that the residents of Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses have seized their opportunity to plan their own future,” Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement. “No one knows better than the residents what they and their neighbors need, and they were smart to recognize the potential benefits of completely rebuilding their campus.
The process got the seal of approval from the tenant association presidents at both complexes: Miguel Acevedo at Fulton Houses and Darlene Waters at Elliott-Chelsea Houses.
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