Come to a free screening of “Pomonok Dreams,” a new documentary about the early days of Pomonok Houses by filmmakers Terry Katz and Alan Stark, who both grew up and lived at Pomonok from the 1950s through the 1970s. A Q&A with the filmmakers will follow the screening. WHERE: 90 Church St. 5th floor Ceremonial… MORE
Read moreThis year’s application filing period for the Automated Transfer List System (ATLS) for employees in District Council 37 represented titles runs from January 25, 2016 through February 28, 2016. (The filing period for Teamsters covered employees usually begins in November.) Once a year, eligible employees are allowed to select up to six locations in ATLS… MORE
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Savings in commuting costs available through the popular Commuter Benefits Program have increased in 2016. The amount you can deduct from your taxable income for commuting costs for MTA, LIRR, N.J. Path and other mass transportation expenses will change as follows: The Transportation Fringe Benefit Monthly Pre-Tax Limit will increase from $130 per month to… MORE
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With New Year’s resolutions fresh in our minds, here’s one that everyone should add to their list: Don’t forget to update your beneficiaries. We are fortunate to have a variety of monetary and other job-related and union-related benefits that we must keep track of as our families grow and change. Every employee should complete a… MORE
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On December 7, the first day of the eight-day festival, Batei Tsibur, the Housing Authority’s organization of Jewish employees, held its Chanukah party. As Batei Tsibur president Alan Pelikow noted, this most widely celebrated Jewish holiday commemorates the unlikely military victory in 138 B.C.E. of a vastly outnumbered band of Jews, the Macabees, over their… MORE
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On December 2, the NYCHA Family Reentry Pilot Program celebrated two years of successful reentry and family reunification, at an event co-hosted with the Vera Institute of Justice at the Fortune Society, in Long Island City, Queens. The program has admitted 54 individuals in its first two years, enabling them to live in their families’… MORE
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Good news! Managers at the final Senior Leadership Meeting of 2015 spent the afternoon on December 8 learning and practicing how to convene shorter and more productive meetings. The workshop session began with a show of hands indicating that the senior managers strongly agreed that most meetings were too long. And the training ended with… MORE
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The final Senior Leadership Meeting of 2015 held on December 8 was designed to provide managers with a key competency to meet NextGeneration NYCHA’s challenging goals: collaborative leadership. The training—previously suggested by the managers—included group exercises on planning effective meetings, stakeholder analysis, and task delegation. “The possibilities for how you can creatively apply these tools…are… MORE
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The “I am NextGeneration NYCHA” campaign continues to bring to the attention of the public outstanding employees, residents, and supporters of NYCHA who embody the commitment to service that’s required to transform our NextGeneration NYCHA vision of safe, clean and connected communities into a reality. The December issue of NYCHANow featured Technical Resource Advisor Denise… MORE
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Dear NYCHA Employees, 2015 has been a year of tremendous change for NYCHA. Last spring, we launched NextGeneration NYCHA, our 10-year strategic plan to fundamentally change how we do business. With unprecedented support across the City, we’ve focused on getting our financial house in order to improve NYCHA for today’s residents and future generations. It’s… MORE
Read more“I absolutely love the ASK HR line,” wrote Wagner Houses Secretary III A Joy Tynes to the ASK HR feedback email account. “It helps me get quick answers to questions we have at the field office,” she said. “If no one else tells you this, I truly appreciate all that you do and your kind… MORE
Read moreVolunteers are needed to assist the NYC Department of Homeless Services in conducting its annual Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE) on Monday, January 25, 2016. Three thousand volunteers will help count the number of New Yorkers living on the City’s streets by canvassing parks, subways, and other public places. Training sites are located throughout the… MORE
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Chair Shola Olatoye welcomed Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores as NYCHA’s newly appointed Executive Board Member, effective December 23, 2015, at the Executive Board meeting held on that day. A scholar of housing policy and design, urban planning, and community inequality, Dr. Dinzey- Flores is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology and Latino & Hispanic Caribbean Studies… MORE
Read moreKerri Jew, former Deputy Commissioner at the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS), has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, effective January 4, 2016. Ms. Jew oversees major components of NYCHA’s organizational redesign, labor relations, and agency-wide process improvements. While Deputy Commissioner at SBS, Ms. Jew oversaw the City’s Minority and… MORE
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As NYCHA continues to fundamentally change the way it does business as part of NextGeneration NYCHA, the Authority released an end-of-year report detailing NYCHA’s responses to emergency events in 2015 and other preparedness updates. The NYCHA Office of Emergency Preparedness, which was created last year, has taken major steps to overhaul NYCHA’s planning for major… MORE
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