The New York City Housing Authority announced an historic plan Wednesday to tear down and rebuild two Manhattan complexes, the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses, in a $1.5 billion plan to revamp the crumbling public housing stock.
The decrepit, decades-old buildings of the two NYCHA complexes, both in Chelsea and containing 2,055 public housing apartments with 4,500 residents, will be replaced with brand-new NYCHA buildings. A far cry from the sorry state of NYCHA’s current housing stock, the new apartments will all have dishwashers, laundry machines, and heating and cooling controlled by residents.
