NYCHA Tenant Seeks Better Communication About Elevators

Ramona Minor, a great-grandmother who lives in the New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) De Hostos houses on NYC’s Upper West Side, wants better communication from the authority about maintenance and repairs, particularly for the building’s problematic elevators, PIX 11 reports. De Hostos’s 223 apartments on 22 floors are served by two elevators, so when one or both are out, residents become inconvenienced and agitated, Minor said. In response to the news story, NYCHA said staff had been dispatched to repair a faulty elevator brake coil that had caused an outage of one of the units. The authority expected to have that elevator up and running by March 16. The source observed that NYCHA reported 21 developments across NYC that were experiences elevator outages on March 15.