Todd Maisel/New York Daily News
A police car sits outside the Cypress Houses in East New York. Under Mayor de Blasio’s preliminary budget, the housing agency would no longer have to pay the NYPD for police services. 
There’s good news for perpetually cash-strapped NYCHA in Mayor de Blasio’s preliminary budget.
The agency that runs the nation’s largest development of public housing will no longer have to repay the NYPD for police services at its facilities, permanently ending a controversial practice that critics said left it unable to pay for building repairs.
De Blasio picked up NYCHA’s roughly $70 million NYPD tab last year and will now announce that the policy has officially been made permanent.
Under the preliminary budget he’s set to unveil Monday afternoon, the mayor will announce $72.5 million in baseline funding for NYCHA to pay for NYPD patrols.
