"More than 700 homes at the Beach 41st Street Houses in Rockaway will switch to electric heating and cooling, which officials say will reduce pollution and offer more reliable service than NYCHA's aging, fossil fuel-powered boilers. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the $38.4 million project at the Queens housing complex on Wednesday-where, ironically, all five buildings were without heat and hot water because of a leak in the existing steam heating system during an unusually cold stretch of weather."
"All 712 units at the campus will receive custom-designed heat pumps that will allow tenants to control the temperatures in their own apartments for the first time. It follows a pilot program last year that installed the eco-friendly devices in a building at the Woodside Houses, where they got positive reviews from residents and cut down on energy costs, officials said."
The $38.4 million project will retrofit all 712 units at Beach 41st Street Houses with custom-designed heat pumps over the next two years. The retrofit will allow tenants to control apartment temperatures individually for the first time and aims to reduce pollution and improve reliability compared with centralized fossil-fuel boilers. A leak in the existing steam system left all five buildings without heat and hot water during an unusually cold stretch. A prior Woodside Houses pilot installed similar devices, produced positive resident reviews, cut energy costs, and performed in cold weather. Additional installations are planned at Woodside and Bay View Houses as part of broader renovations.
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