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BRONX TIMES REPORTER, APR. 22-28, 2022 BXR
For tenants of the Marble Hill Houses, calls for reliable heat and hot water service had been at the
source of frustration since 2015. Photo | Jason Cohen
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
Charges are pending against a man accused
of slashing an NYPD school safety
agent at a Bronx elementary school on
Thursday morning.
Police said the incident happened at
about 7:40 a.m. on April 14 at P.S. 69, located
at 560 Theriot Ave. in Clason Point.
According to law enforcement sources,
the perpetrator entered the building and
got into an argument with a teacher in an
apparent attempt to remove a child from
class.
Authorities said the school safety
agent, a 55-year-old man, attempted to
break up the argument. That’s when the
suspect pulled out a sharp instrument
and slashed the agent in the neck.
Following the attack, cops said, the assailant
fled inside a black Toyota zip car,
but was apprehended a short time later.
EMS rushed the injured agent to Jacobi
Hospital for treatment of injuries not
considered life-threatening.
A police source told the Bronx Times
the assailant and the teacher allegedly
knew each other and were involved in a
domestic dispute. A source from Jacobi
Hospital said the teacher had filed an order
of protection against the suspect yesterday.
-additional reporting by Jason Cohen
BY ROBBIE SEQUEIRA
For the Marble Hill
House tenants who reside
in the Bronx’s northwest
corridor, calls for reliable
heat and hot water service
had been at the source of
residential frustration
since 2015.
Some tenants like
75-year-old Adelaida Marrero
told the Bronx Times
that they had gone more
than four months without
hot water.
“I try to take a bath,
but it’s like you are living
in 1800,” she told the
Bronx Times last January.
“All they NYCHA say is
they’re working on it, but
they don’t fix the problem.”
Now, residents of the
Marble Hill Houses in
Bronx’s northwest corridor
and Berry Houses in
Staten Island are set to receive
energy and heat upgrades
as a part of a $72
million construction plan
by the city’s housing and
power authorities.
Complaints over consistent
hot water and heat
outages were only exacerbated
by the COVID-19 pandemic,
where at one point,
153 apartments in the Marble
Hill Houses’ Building
4, at 2811 Exterior St., had
been without hot water in
their bathrooms since mid-
October 2020, according to
building violation data obtained
by the Bronx Times.
The two projects will
impact more than 2,100
apartments officials from
the New York City Housing
Authority (NYCHA)
and the New York Power
Authority (NYPA) said in
a statement that the projects
aim to reduce roughly
2,200 metric tons of carbon
emission to meet the state’s
climate goals.
For both buildings,
NYCHA and NYPA will be
making energy-efficient
upgrades to the complexes’
low-pressure steam boilers,
a decoupling of the existing
hot water systems
and adding new gas-fired
hot water heaters. Both
projects are expected to
be completed by December
2023, with the Marble Hill
and Berry House projects
totaling $41 million and
$31 million, respectively.
“The heating improvements
being implemented
by the Power Authority at
NYCHA’s Marble Hill and
Berry Houses will provide
residents with more reliable
and energy-efficient
heat and hot water delivery,”
said NYPA Interim
President and CEO Justin
E. Driscoll. “The upgrades
will update and improve
these important systems
and help reduce carbon
emissions, furthering
the goals of Governor Hochul’s
aggressive climate
agenda.”
Driscoll also assured
that that construction projects
will provide more reliability
in hot and heat
water to tenants of both
housing complexes, which
are managed by NYCHA.
“After several seasons
of inconsistent heat,
I am excited to hear that
NYCHA and NYPA are investing
in green heating
improvements for Marble
Hill and Berry Houses,”
said Fordham Councilmember
Pierina Sanchez.
“Modernizing NYCHA’s
building infrastructure is
essential to ensuring families
can safely keep warm,
without the need to opt for
dangerous space heaters
that are also harmful to
the environment. Our approach
to the climate crisis
must take on an equity
framework, and by prioritizing
frontline residents,
we are taking a step in the
right direction.”
Marble Hill Houses to receive
heat, hot water upgrades
Man arrested for slashing
NYPD safety agent
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