Brooklyn NYCHA residents frustrated with cold apartments on Christmas Eve

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Brooklyn (PIX11) -- PIX11 News got results for residents of public housing in Brooklyn this Christmas Eve.

Neighbors at the NYCHA Stuyvesant Gardens senior living facility in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood said drafty windows combined with minimal heat being produced from their floor vents make keeping warm difficult.

“There are drafty windows,” said Elsa Saliva, one of a dozen seniors who intercepted PIX11 in the lobby to express concern and share stories about being cold.

PIX11 observed apartment after apartment where neighbors had done their best to tape up plastic or blankets over the drafty windows inside the more than 100-unit senior living development.

Most were also making hot cups of tea or running their ovens, not to cook Christmas dinner, but just to keep warm. More had turned to space heaters.

PIX11 got a spokesman for NYCHA on the phone. He confirmed all heating equipment was operational and that staff would be coming to help better seal windows.

Shortly after PIX11's call, a group of workers arrived.