Q&A
Discussion on vacant NYCHA apartments and their impact
0:52:21
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Council Member Brewer raises concerns about thousands of vacant apartments in NYCHA buildings and their impact on pest and mold issues. She seeks information on what can be done about these vacant units.
- Brewer mentions there may be around 6,000 vacant apartments citywide
- She highlights a specific complex on the Upper West Side with 40 vacant apartments
- The vacant apartments are noted to have pest and mold problems
Gale A. Brewer
0:52:21
One of them is just a vacant apartments.
0:52:24
There's thousands of vacant apartments, and some of them maybe need too much, but how do we that's question number 1, because they do have pests.
0:52:31
They do have mold.
0:52:32
They do have all these things in them.
0:52:33
So I wanna know what if anything we can do about them.
0:52:36
I I do have no idea.
0:52:37
I know one building I have a lot of on the upper west side, a lot of nights.
0:52:41
And one complex has 40.
0:52:43
The management told me 40 vacant apartments, and I don't know how many citywide, 6000.
0:52:49
That's the number I've heard.
