The Housing Authority is scrambling to restore power by this weekend to 11 developments in Queens and Brooklyn that went dark more than a week ago.
It doesn’t look promising.
NYCHA Chairman John Rhea on Wednesday said he hoped to accomplish this, but a day later Mayor Bloomberg was saying, “I’m not sure we can make it.”
At the Coney Island Houses, where there’s been no light, heat or hot water since the Sandy surge hit Oct. 29, residents weren’t holding their breath.
“Three days ago, they told us the lights would be back on,” said Adela Ramos, 64, who lives in a second-floor apartment a block from the pounding surf.
The storm knocked out scores of NYCHA developments in low-lying areas along the Brooklyn waterfront in Red Hook, Gowanus and Coney Island several projects in Far Rockaway, Queens, and a handful on the lower East Side and Chinatown.
NYCHA was able to get electricity to nine buildings, leaving 71 buildings housing 13,000 residents still in the dark on Thursday. The mayor said heat should arrive “sometime early next week.”
