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Public housing tenants in O’Dwyer Gardens in Coney Island and Hamel Houses in the Rockaways went without heat or hot water for hours after temporary boilers — put in place after Hurricane Sandy — crashed. Here, Francesco Fernandez sticks it out in his apartment in O’Dwyer Gardens without heat on Nov. 13, 2012.
Nearly 3,000 public housing tenants can thank Hurricane Sandy for their loss of heat and hot water on Friday.
More than 1,000 tenants at the O’Dwyer Gardens in Coney Island and some 1,900 at the Hamel Houses in the Rockaways endured an indoor freeze for hours after temporary boilers crashed, NYCHA officials confirmed.
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The temporary boilers are in use because NYCHA has yet to repair the permanent ones more than a year after Sandy’s floodwaters knocked them out of commission. Two dozen developments rely on the temporary boilers.
At O’Dwyer, heat and hot water went out around 6 a.m. The temporary boilers were still not working almost 12 hours later. The outage at Hamel lasted from noon until 5 p.m. NYCHA shuttled residents, many of whom are elderly, to a warming shelter nearby at Carey Gardens Community Center.
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