Sentences with phrase «nycha chairwoman»

NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye, far right, speaks to Councilman Benjamin Kallos, far left, and Councilman Ritchie Torres (Photo: Will Bredderman for Observer).

«A year and a half later, 18 months later, I'm here to tell you that not only have things not improved as it relates to vacancies, it's actually gotten worse,» he told the Observer, though had kind words for Shola Olatoye, Mr. de Blasio's NYCHA chairwoman.

They asked NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye to provide the City Council with specifics on the value of the FEMA contracts.

NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye tries to defend her policies from residents.

When asked whether she holds de Blasio responsible given a lead paint scandal under NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye and 323,000 public housing residents being deprived of heat and hot water during the winter, she said everyone is responsible.

Embattled NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye returned to the scene of the crime Tuesday, appearing before the same City Council members she'd misinformed about lead paint inspections during a prior hearing under oath.

NYCHA Chairwoman and CEO Shola Olatoye flanked by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Senator Charles Schumer (Photo: Facebook).

Nixon also criticized the mayor's timeline for fixing New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) heaters and boiler systems and NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye's handling of the lead paint scandal.

NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye sent the list to the state April 10, promising to match the funding for roof repairs at an additional 66 buildings.

And on Tuesday Public Advocate Letitia James demanded that the authority do the right thing, writing to NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye: «I strongly urge you to comply with the demands made by your residents and the Legal Aid Society without forcing the need for legal action.»

NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye faced a hostile City Council Tuesday over lead - paint inspection lies.

Speaking to NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye, Cumbo, a Democrat, asked why «certain ethnic groups come in» to a NYCHA development «in blocs.»

«We heard NYCHA Chairwoman Oyatole talk about «deplorable» conditions at a City Council hearing — and we agree.

Shola Olatoye, Mr. de Blasio's NYCHA chairwoman, thanked the mayor for also baselining the $ 70 million the authority formerly paid to the NYPD for protection into his executive budget and for eliminating NYCHA's $ 30 million annual payment in lieu of property taxes.

NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye attends a NYCHA budget hearing in the New York City Council Chambers on Wednesday and spars with Councilman Ruben Diaz Sr. (with cowboy hat).

We found deplorable conditions in many buildings operated by NYCHA and we want to help NYCHA Chairwoman Oyatole fix these problems,» said Senator Savino.

NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye told PIX11 she believed the agency was doing the work.

He also took a clear shot at his political nemesis, Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has refused calls to fire NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye over scandals including falsified lead - paint inspections, broken boilers and rampant drug dealing.

And she has criticized de Blasio's timeline for fixing New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) heaters and boiler systems, as well as former NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye's timeline over a lead paint scandal.

NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye is under fire for the citywide public housing heating issues.

The hearing — which will be co-chaired by Ampry - Samuel and Councilman Ritchie Torres, who heads a new investigations committee — comes as NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye is under fire for not only the heating woes, but a lead paint scandal that has led to the departure of many of her deputies.

At the end of March, she blasted the mayor's timeline for fixing New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) heaters and boiler systems and former NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye's handling of the lead paint scandal.

At 10:30 a.m. Assembly members Steven Cymbrowitz and William Colton and NYCHA Chairwoman and CEO Shola Olatoye announce the delivery of new stoves and refrigerators for tenants of Marlboro Houses, Marlboro Senior Center, 2298 W. 8th St., Brooklyn.

NYCHA chairwoman Shola Olatoye did not tell the truth during her sworn testimony about lead paint inspections before the city council last month, a letter from the Department of Investigation obtained by the Daily News reveals.

Pressed by the Daily News, the mayor's office admitted that NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye told de Blasio in 2016 that her agency was widely violating both a local law and federal regulations governing lead inspections.

At 10:30 a.m., NYCHA Chairwoman and CEO Shola Olatoye and Trees New York honor of the life of Susannah «Miss Susie» Mushatt Jones with a tree - planting ceremony on the grounds of the Vandalia Senior Center, where Jones spent the last 30 years of her life, 47 Vandalia Ave., Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Councilman Robert Cornegy and Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, co-chairs of the BLAC, penned a letter to NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye requesting she weigh rechristening eight or more complexes currently bearing the appellation of a historical figure who possessed slaves or facilitated the slave trade.

«The primary complaint from presidents of the various tenant associations was the incompetence and poor management style of NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye,» Malliotakis said.

Also at 10 a.m., NYC Councilman Andy King and NYCHA Chairwoman and CEO Shola Olatoye, joined by state Sen. Ruth Hassell - Thompson, lead a tour of the authority's Boston Secor Houses, as King discusses nearly $ 1.5 million in funding for projects to install security cameras and renovate the public housing development's senior center and track and field; 3475 Bivona St., the Bronx.

NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye had earlier come under fire for blowing off mandatory lead paint inspections, then lying to the feds about it.

Recently - ousted NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye and her colleagues admitted that the outages were «staggering» and «unacceptable.»

The NYC Council wants beleaguered NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye in the hot seat talking about cold apartments Tuesday — but she might be too busy with jury duty, though she plans to seek a postponement.

Embattled NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye testified before the New York City Council about the collapse of the authority's heating systems during a recent big freeze, with tenants booing and interrupting her testimony.

Not exact matches

Shola Olatoye remained firmly ensconced as chairwoman even as de Blasio announced the second shake - up of the bungling agency, exactly one week after The Post revealed how NYCHA neglect led to a ceiling collapse that injured a tenant and his girlfriend in Brooklyn.

Mr. Torres, who chairs the public housing committee, pressed Mr. Couch and Shola Olatoye — Mayor Bill de Blasio's Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer for NYCHA — on why the infamously underfunded authority had not converted the units.

«You have the chairwoman of NYCHA acknowledging that NYCHA has been lost in the shuffle, and we'd like to hear from the deputy mayor in charge of affordable housing why that is.»

City Comptroller Scott Stringer and New York City Housing Authority Chairwoman Shola Olatoye announced today that an audit of the financially strapped public housing landlord found it had mismanaged and misplaced hundreds of thousands of dollars in building materials and supplies, and that NYCHA had agreed to overhaul the administration of its warehouses as a result of the study — a shakeup the Observer first reported last month.

NYCHA's chairwoman, Shola Olatoye, has faced calls for her resignation.

«NYCHA has a chairwoman whose credibility has sustained irreversible damage,» Committee Chairman Ritchie Torres (D - Bronx) said in his opening remarks.