Fresh Fridges For Farragut
The corner of Sands and Gold Streets was full of new refrigerators this morning. According to one of the workers onsite, every unit at the Farragut Houses is getting a new fridge. Wonder how long they’ve had their current ones? Are Whitman and Ingersoll getting similar upgrades?
The corner of Sands and Gold Streets was full of new refrigerators this morning. According to one of the workers onsite, every unit at the Farragut Houses is getting a new fridge. Wonder how long they’ve had their current ones? Are Whitman and Ingersoll getting similar upgrades?
There was a recent story somewhere about people’s electricity usage when they receive free electricity and the numbers were stagering as to how much they abuse it.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
fellow residents might be pains in the behinds but betcha NYCHA is way better landlord relationship than most landlords one deals with their rentals. the parking, green space, kiddie playground,…. – projects are pretty good (if residents aint that bad)
Not disagreeing with you MM, perhaps I worded it badly, but where rent has remained the same for the past few years, and energy costs have skyrocketed, project residents have no incentive to curtail energy use, and I’d safely say, most don’t. From their point of view, the electricity is “free” since they don’t receive a separate bill and the rent does not increase month by month or even year by year to reflect energy usage.
also -as in many other buildings where electric is not separately metered and included in rent – there is an monthly fee for having each a/c (and I think in most cityprojects tenant limited to 2 a/c units)
Those don’t look like particularly energy efficient refrigerators, just cheap ones. Ptobably don’t have a designated space to chill a nice white bordeaux either. 🙁
Gas and electricity MAY be included in the total rent, as it is in many other non-public assistance buildings all over the country. I don’t know for sure about NYCHA, so I am saying MAY. Large building complexes often get special rates from utilities for the whole complex, so electricity and gas are often just factored into the rental amount. There is no such thing as “free” utilities, and tenants in NYCHA housing are paying a sliding scale percentage of the rent, depending on their income.
@Benson – didn’t know that, thanks. Adding ‘effects of breathing coal emissions from con ed plants’ to the list of psychosomatic illnesses…
It’s true; project residents get free electricity all year round, which is why you’ll see A/C units running 24/7 from April through October.
Another perk – parking spots that cost around $25-35 a year, that can be “sublet” out for much, much higher. I would never trade places, but the living isn’t all bad.
Correction:
Like all NYC and NYS governmental entities, it purchases electricity from the New York State Power Authority, which generates its own electricity (they have a huge plant in Astoria).