Some new Yorkers in all five boroughs report that they are freezing in apartments without heat. Most often it is at home, the heat which supplies the company with NYCHA.
Friday was another sleepless night for Cecilia Quinones and her seven-month-old daughter in Soundview, Bronx. A mother and child tried to sleep, wrapped in blankets and surrounded with heaters.
NYCHA said АВС7 that the technicians just went to this address to fix the heating, but on Saturday afternoon and Cecilia Quinones, and her roommate, Michelle Torres, said they have not noticed any improvement. «On Saturday, about 12 hours I received a reply that the heat restored, but it’s not,» added Michelle.
According to inspector of new York Scott Stringer, NYCHA boilers company broken five times more often than the national average.
«If you live in the house, which supplies heat in NYCHA, 40% that it is a building with a faulty boiler. For other houses the chance is only 7%. This is outrageous,» said stringer.
The inspector said that his office is currently beginning a new audit of NYCHA’s heating systems, to change the situation from within.
In turn, the company NYCHA released a statement which said that its employees work 24 hours, 7 days a week, fighting a cold, which covered new York.
«We will fully cooperate with the inspector Stringer because they want the same things: safety and comfort for all new Yorkers,» said NYCHA in.
