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A NYCHA program that empowers staff to assist residents in navigating stairs during elevator outages is seeking new volunteers.   Residents who use wheelchairs or have mobility challenges may need to rely on the use of stair climber equipment to safely get to and from their apartment during both planned and unplanned elevator outages. Stair climbers are portable… Continue Reading Become a Volunteer for NYCHA’s Updated Stair Climber Program  

NYCHA’s Runners Club teamed up for the 45th running of the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge race in Central Park on May 29 and May 30.    Runners Club colleagues at the Authority joined thousands of runners and walkers from across the city for New York’s version of the Corporate Challenge, billed as the world’s largest corporate… Continue Reading Runners Club Takes On 2024 Corporate Challenge 

Close to the heart of Chinatown sits LaGuardia Houses Addition, a NYCHA senior development where a large majority of residents are ethnically Chinese.  Among the more than 180 residents who call the 16-story building home, over 78 percent are of Asian ethnicity. The strong representation of Asian culture at this Lower East Side development is… Continue Reading Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month: Meet the Resident Leaders at LaGuardia Houses Addition 

By the time many NYCHA colleagues are about to head home for the day, most employees serving in the Emergency Management and Services Department (EMSD) might be just getting started with their duties.   That’s par for the course when you’re tasked with managing or assisting with nearly any type of emergency at NYCHA’s hundreds… Continue Reading Mission: Emergency at NYCHA – Meet the EMSD Team 

March was National Social Work Month and, in recognition, the Family Partnerships Department hosted a ceremony for all of NYCHA’s social workers and social service coordinators on March 28 in the 90 Church Street Ceremonial Room. This year’s national theme – Elevate Social Work – provided an opportunity to highlight the vital role social workers… Continue Reading Elevating Social Workers

Sudari Freeman is a heating superintendent in Brooklyn. She’s also a native of the borough and a former resident of Sumner Houses. NYCHANow spoke with her to learn more about what she does. What does a heating superintendent do? I make sure that heat and hot water are maintained throughout the 24 developments I’m responsible… Continue Reading Turning on the Heat

The last Thursday of the month has a familiar routine for NYCHA’s executive team. That’s a day designated each month when senior leadership visits developments to speak with managers and frontline staff. The monthly visits launched with little fanfare in March 2016. Each senior team member chooses a location to visit from a group of… Continue Reading Senior Team Keeps a Fresh Perspective on Developments