BY AIDAN GRAHAM
City housing honchos were
hard at work on Thursday as
they rushed to meet State Sen.
Zellnor Myrie’s 24-hour deadline
to clean up the fi re-ravaged
housing projects in East
Flatbush.
Myrie, a fi rst term legislator,
had threatened “hell
to pay” if city offi cials failed
to quickly remedy the decrepit
conditions inside the
William Reid Apartments,
which were partially engulfed
in a fi re in late August.
“No one should be living
in these conditions,” said
Myrie in a late Wednesday
tweet-storm . “If you do not
give us a satisfactory response
in 24 hours, you will
have hell to pay.”
Myrie — speaking on
camera from the second fl oor
of the Maple Street building
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between Troy and Alabany
avenues — pointed to the
remnants of an inferno that
ravaged the housing complex
seven weeks earlier, and
demanded immediate action
to clean up the ash-covered
hallways.
“There was a fi re here
a couple of weeks ago, and
nothing has been done. Look
at the conditions that they
have our seniors living in,”
he said. “We don’t know what
type of air they’re breathing
in.”
Despite nearly two
months elapsing, the New
York City Housing Authority
— which oversees the city’s
public housing stockpile —
had done seemingly little to
clean up the aftermath.
“These are our most vulnerable
constituents and we
will not accept this treatment,”
wrote Myrie.
On Thursday morning,
hours after Myrie’s social
media tirade, the Housing
Authority dispatched a team
of maintenance workers to
comply with the legislators
demands.
“Staff are washing and
repairing the damaged
space and will be done painting
tomorrow. We are looking
into the delays and will
take appropriate action,”
said agency spokeswoman
Barbra Brancaccio.
In a separate statement ,
the spokeswoman took an
apparent shot at the public
forum which the freshman
senator chose to make his
demands.
“We hope moving forward,
the senator will contact
us directly about issues
concerning his community
to ensure that residents receive
accurate information,”
said Brancaccio.
Myrie threatened “hell to pay” if
NYCHA failed to clean up the Reid
Houses within 24 hours.
Sen. Myrie’s offi ce
Zellnor Myrie watches as NYCHA offi cials clean up the fi re damage.
Sen. Myrie’s offi ce
NYCHA rushes to meet Senator’s ‘hell to pay’ demands
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