NYCHA demolition in Chelsea must stop

NYCHA demolition in Chelsea must stop

Last April, on two warm evenings, more than a hundred Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea residents filled public hearings to deliver an unequivocal message, through grief, questions, and defiance, that they opposed NYCHA’s demolition plan, with only two voices offering lukewarm support. Yet NYCHA marches ahead. In a stunning reversal of public promises and community planning, NYCHA is moving to demolish all 24 buildings across the two campuses in prime …