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Featured NYCHA News Sustainability Top Story 

NYCHA Completes Solar Installations at Queensbridge Houses

April 22, 2021March 29, 2022 Vincent Echavaria

On Earth Day, NYCHA announced the substantial completion of 1.8 megawatts of rooftop solar arrays on 27 buildings across Queensbridge North and Queensbridge South Houses.

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Communities Sustainability Top Story 

NYCHA, Green City Force Inventory Thousands of Trees Across 18 Campuses

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 Vincent Echavaria

Equipped with tape measures and a mobile app, a group of current and former NYCHA residents were on a mission

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Education Sustainability Top Story 

Former NYCHA Resident Awarded $200K Grant for Sustainability Activism

October 28, 2020October 30, 2020 Vincent Echavaria

As a young man growing up at NYCHA developments across all five boroughs, Domingo Morales never used to think about the best

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Featured NYCHA 2.0 Sustainability 

A Healthy Diversion

January 22, 2020January 31, 2022 admin Baruch Addition, Meltzer Tower, Sustainability Programs Department, Two Bridges, Waste Management Plan

As part of the NYCHA 2.0 Waste Management Plan and related efforts to better manage waste across the Authority, NYCHA’s Sustainability Programs

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Sustainability Youth 

Richmond Terrace Resident Wins Award

February 28, 2019February 11, 2022 LaToya Farms at NYCHA, Green City Force
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Sustainability 

Championing Energy Efficiency for NYers

December 3, 2018October 22, 2019 LaToya

Daphany Rose Sanchez is passionate about ensuring that all New Yorkers have access to energy efficiency. She even quit a

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Sustainability 

Piloting a New Way to Recycle at Brownsville Houses

November 26, 2018October 22, 2019 LaToya

Brigitte Vicenty gets excited when she sees bags full of recyclables collected outside the Brownsville Houses Community Center, because her

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Sustainability 

Energy Upgrades For 15 NYCHA Developments

November 5, 2018October 22, 2019 LaToya

As part of NYCHA’s Energy Performance Contact (EPC) program, $104.6 million in upgrades are coming to 15 developments in the

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Sustainability 

Rooftop Solar Gardens Coming to NYCHA

September 27, 2018October 22, 2019 LaToya

Rooftop solar gardens will be built on 189 NYCHA buildings at 28 developments across the city to increase New Yorkers’

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Sustainability 

It Takes a Village to Save the Neighborhood

March 12, 2018October 22, 2019 LaToya

NYCHA Supports Resident- and Community-Led Sustainability Initiatives The Ideas Marketplace is an online platform that connects resident- and community-led sustainability

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