The phrase "new boilers" refers to recently manufactured or newly installed heating devices that produce hot water or steam for heating purposes. Full definition
The Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed this weekend to pay $ 100 million for new boilers at dozens of public housing developments damaged by Superstorm Sandy after Councilman Ritchie Torres, chair of the Council's comittee on public housing, held a Public Housing Committee hearing in a Coney Island NYCHA development last month to raise awareness of the issue. (thebronxchronicle.com)
The nine housing projects on track to get new boilers in the next five years are Baruch and Two Bridges houses in Manhattan; Pelham Parkway, Jackson and McKinley in the Bronx; and Gowanus, Marcy, Pink and Tilden in Brooklyn. (nypost.com)