Residents at the Mitchell Houses on Thursday night say there may finally be light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n
The disruption began after a gas explosion in the building\u2019s boiler room in October.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Residents at the Mitchel Houses in the Bronx say they’ve been without cooking gas since Oct. 1
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The disruption began after a gas explosion in the building\u2019s boiler room
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Tenants we spoke with after a closed-door meeting with NYCHA say they were told gas could be restored as soon as two weeks<\/p>\n
It caused a partial collapse of the chimney, forcing cooking gas to be shut off across the public housing complex.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did find out in Building 5 that gas should be on as by the end of December, or the beginning of January,\u201d tenant Janine Rabenau said.<\/p>\n
Tenants that NY1 spoke with after a closed-door meeting with NYCHA say they were told gas could be restored as soon as two weeks, something many say they desperately need.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s great news. That\u2019s great news,\u201d Rabenau said.<\/p>\n
For others, frustration is still front and center.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt took too long. Outside food is expensive, and I\u2019ve been spending money on outside food,\u201d tenant Nakia Williams said.<\/p>\n
NY1 reached out to confirm the timeline residents were given.<\/p>\n
In an earlier response, the agency didn\u2019t provide a specific date, but said gas restoration involves structural repairs, inspections and safety clearances before service can be turned back on.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is what it is, and we just got to take it one day at a time. Try not to stress too much,\u201d tenant Marie Rafael said.<\/p>\n
For now, tenants are waiting to see whether this timeline holds and what the next phase of repairs will bring.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been holding it down. That\u2019s all I can do. I\u2019m a New Yorker. What do you expect?\u201d Rafael said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents at the Mitchell Houses on Thursday night say there may finally be light at the end of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[387,25,128,388,9,24,12,63,308,129,131,130,27],"class_list":["post-61459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-louis-finley","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61459","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=61459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}