[Photo from yesterday]
The temporary boilers that arrived shortly after Superstorm Sandy remain rather permanently on Sixth Street at Avenue C outside the NYCHA-owned building.
In September 2014, Sen. Schumer and Mayor de Blasio announced that $108 million in federal funding would be used to replace temporary boilers in NYCHA buildings damaged by Sandy. Apparently they haven't been able to get over here these past three years. (The Daily News once reported that a temporary boiler costs $5,000 a month to rent.)
Anyway, a look back at the boilers that have roughly cost the NYCHA $600,000 to rent these past five years.
October 2014...
October 2013...
April 2013...
Early 2013...
If it wasn't so sad, you have to laugh. 5 YEARS?! And the money's available. What can you say. There are tree pits that still aren't filled from Sandy. WHERE ARE OUR POLITICIANS. I knowIknow! Plotting and planning how to screw the people they represent. And the voters keep electing them. Besides laughing, you have to scratch your head. God.
ReplyDeleteIt smells like graft and general corruption to me.
ReplyDeleteThey are probably leaving the boilers in place there so that when the next big flood happens they won’t have to turn around bring them all back. So in reality, this is just a smart pre-emotive cost-saving strategy.
ReplyDelete@Giovanni
ReplyDeleteIt's like they are utilizing these temp boilers the same way that scaffolding remains on buildings for years.
This is a goddamn disgrace. An expensive goddamn disgrace. Vote de Faustio out, he is a failure.
I suppose the contract for whatever they were doing will now to the a Whitefish, Montana company. Why would we expect anything like an efficiently run government from Mayor Bill? Yet watch he will win by 80% of those few who will vote. Of course there is no viable alternative and he knows it.
ReplyDeleteThis thing STINKS, and it's not just the fumes from the leaking diesel fuel
ReplyDeleteSOME people are making a bundle here, including from over-priced rental and kick-backs. FOLLOW that money and see where it leads.
Bids for boiler replacements would have gotten this resolved more than 4 years ago for a FRACTION of the 600k they've blown....
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ReplyDeleteThis is a goddamn disgrace. An expensive goddamn disgrace. Vote de Faustio out, he is a failure.
I agree, he's a failure: a corrupt, preoccupied failure. But who to replace him with...? Wish it were so easy. You think Sal Albanese can beat him?
what chris flash said
ReplyDelete@ Scuba
ReplyDeleteI support Albanese but he doesn't have a chance, the small amount of democrats rejected him in the primary.
Wait for the next debate on CBS as he tries to continue his denials about his dealings with Joan Rechnitz and his bullshit affordable housing plan, which is to place the potentially displaced in shelters.
Nicole can beat him. I didn't like him, but Giuliani managed to appeal to all voters to get two terms and the city didn't die, although it got more expensive.
Someone is making a lot of money off renting these boilers to the city. Probably charging too much as well.
ReplyDeleteFollow the money to find out who is really at fault and why. If you were renting these boilers to the city, would you want it to end? Who are they talking to at the city agencies? Is there some shady deal here?