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?
Lalaland;
The NYCHA does not purchase its electricity from Con Ed. Like all NYC and NYS entities, it purchases electricity from the New York State Power Authority, which generates its own electricity (they have a huge plant in Astoria).
Neither Con Ed nor the NYS Power Authority burn coal, nor have they done so for years. They burn oil and natural gas, which is one of the reasons electricity is so expensive in NYC.
People in the project get free gas and electric? I thought some of them paid, just like most people living in housing projects pay some type of money for rent.
Lalaland- great post! And very funny to boot. 🙂
free = free to residents but not to taxpayers or the environment. Coal still gets burned to cool all that ‘junk food’, and we’re still going to breathe the emissions.
You want more, not less, of your tax dollars going to Con Ed and Big Coal? not me…
I’m sure what Rob is *trying* to say is the residents of those projects lack access to affordable, healthy alternatives to the junkfood found at the bodegas that surround their homes.
“yes all those fridges will be filled with fresh veggies from whole foods.”
See? He’s pointing out that fresh, organic food is only available to the upper classes since an EBT card won’t buy jack squat at Whole Foods (who wants to spend their whole monthly allowance on a pound of heirloom string beans?).
It’s imperative to make healthy food more accessible since not only would it improve the way poor people with no access to good food feel, but would also lower their health care costs, which taxpayers are also footing the bill for. If we could lower the rate (and public costs) of diabetes, high blood pressure, etc by providing healthier food, by simply making better food available, why wouldn’t we? Better yet, we know it works from the Greenmarkets set up by Woodhull Hospital and other locations around the city where access is a problem.
So good looking out Rob, you are so misunderstood here, er, right?
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part of making public housing more energy efficient
oh that is good to know considering people in the projects get free gas and electricity!
*rob*
I’m sure I’ll appear all work and no play by saying this, but it’s safe to assume this is part of making public housing more energy efficient, not some lux upgrade for the public housing cohorts
Rob, as usual, you take it to the extreme. I stand by what I said, and if you want to sound like….. well, like you usually sound, have at it, all by yourself.
yes all those fridges will be filled with fresh veggies from whole foods.
i am totally wrong that poor people like to eat junk food.
*rob*