{"id":131867,"date":"2026-02-12T23:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131867\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:04:22","slug":"why-hasnt-clinton-towers-been-fixed-waste-weirdness-andwesties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131867\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Hasn\u2019t Clinton Towers Been Fixed? Waste, Weirdness and\u2026Westies\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1975, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1975\/01\/23\/archives\/the-new-clinton-towers-is-step-in-right-direction-an-appraisal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times hailed Clinton Towers as \u201ca step in the right direction.\u201d<\/a> Today, tenants call it a case study in failed oversight: years of worsening disrepair, spiraling bills, opaque finances and a governing structure they describe as untouchable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/clinton-towers-wide_4761.jpg\" alt=\"Clinton Towers\" class=\"wp-image-128950\"\/>Clinton Towers is a 396-unit Mitchell-Lama development at 790 11th Avenue between W54\/55th Streets in Hell\u2019s Kitchen. Photo: Catie Savage<\/p>\n<p>Clinton Towers is a 396-unit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/hpd\/services-and-information\/mitchell-lama-program.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell-Lama development<\/a> in Hell\u2019s Kitchen, with a high-rise at 790 11th Avenue and a low-rise at 540 W55th Street \u2014 built to house working-class New Yorkers at regulated, income-based rents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to verify and manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>An account was already registered with this email. Please check your inbox for an authentication link.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/joy-bergmann\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-Joy-Bergmann-400px-wide--80x80.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joy Bergmann is an investigative reporter who\u2019s lived on Manhattan\u2019s West Side since 2003. Her work has appeared in West Side Rag, Metro New York, Hell Gate, Chicago Reader and the Chicago Tribune. Netflix, CNN, PBS, NPR and Investigation Discovery have created programs from her stories. W42ST links to source documents wherever possible so other reporters can keep probing; we ask that our original reporting is credited when followed up. Have a tip or an investigation idea? Email tips@w42st.com.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/joy-bergmann\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Joy Bergmann\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1975, the New York Times hailed Clinton Towers as \u201ca step in the right direction.\u201d Today, tenants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-131867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}