A promising $1.5 billion plan to demolish and rebuild two projects in the heart of Chelsea is an important test for local leaders.
from an outside faucet in order to bathe and flush their toilets.
The scene infuriated Eric Adams, Brooklyn’s borough president at the time. “It should not take public pressure to increase the goddamn water pressure!” he shouted at aWe need more of that impatient, in-your-face Eric Adams, who has yet to name a permanent CEO of the Housing Authority and whose chief housing officer, Jessica Katz, recently. “I am excited that the residents of Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses have seized their opportunity to plan their own future,” the mayor said in a statement.
It’s great to see that Adams, Levine, Representative Jerry Nadler, State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Assemblyman Tony Simone, and the presidents of the relevant tenant associations are all in support of the project. The danger is that political calculations, unlike real-estate math, can change.
That’s enough time for a worthy idea to get ensnared in the 2025 municipal elections, the 2026 statewide races, and other places where ambitious office-seekers will be counting votes and staking out positions. That democratic reality means Adams, Levine, and other key stakeholders should expect blowback from skeptics and critics.
To believe in the promise of public housing means pressing forward with the urgency the situation demands. New York’s stock of public housing, our main source of permanently affordable dwellings and home to 5 percent of the city’s population, is on the verge of collapse and needs new dollars and fresh thinking before more people are harmed by failing elevators,
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