Not Just Hot Air: NYCHA Starts Swapping Out Steam Radiators for ‘Greener’ Pumps
New units were developed specifically for NYCHA as part of a 2021 challenge to companies to build a better heater for the city’s public housing.
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Radiators are on the way out at a Queens public-housing complex — where the first wave of a project to modernize how 10,000 apartments are warmed in the winter and cooled in the summer is taking shape.
The New York City Housing Authority this month installed electric-powered heat pumps at 12 apartments inside the Woodside Houses, where residents lost heat and hot water for months in 2021 after boilers at the 20-building complex were damaged by flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.