NYCHA lost 100 boiler repairmen months before heating fiasco

Just months before NYCHA’s problem-plagued heating systems suffered from periodic outages amid a sub-freezing cold snap, the agency lost roughly 100 boiler repairmen, officials said. The departures left the public housing agency with just 243 heating technicians as of December 29 — down from the 347 positions that were allocated in the agency’s budget. “We...

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