Innovative, Environmentally Friendly Heating/Cooling Coming to Beach 41st St. Houses

The City is investing $38.4 million to install deliver clean, reliable heat pumps at Beach 41st Street Houses in the Rockaways, delivering modern heating and cooling to 712 homes as part of the City’s Clean Heat for All initiative.   

Beach 41st Street Houses will be among the first NYCHA developments to receive the custom-designed heat pumps, which will replace an aging gas boiler system that has exceeded its useful life.   

Once installed, the heat pumps will provide more consistent and reliable heating, efficient cooling in bedrooms and living rooms, individual temperature controls for residents, and greater hot water reliability. The project advances the City’s goal of expanding Clean Heat for All to more than 10,000 NYCHA apartments by 2030.   

“This investment shows how smart policy can address our housing crisis and climate crisis at the same time,” said Leila Bozorg, Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning. “These heat pumps will be cheaper and more efficient, cut emissions, and improve residents’ lives at Beach 41st Street Houses. The Clean Heat for All program is proof using the City’s investment and purchasing power creatively can drive progress across the city, and that is the creativity that we will bring to bear to address the housing crisis for all New Yorkers.”  

“We are so pleased to be bringing the Clean Heat for All heat pumps to the residents of Beach 41st Street Houses,” said NYCHA Chief Executive Officer Lisa Bova-Hiatt. “These cutting-edge heat pumps will not only provide clean, reliable heat during the winter, but cooling during the summer months as well. We’d like to thank Mayor Mamdani for his support of this program and for his dedication to improving the quality of life for the residents of Beach 41st Houses. We look forward to a continued partnership with his administration as we work to scale up Clean Heat for All and install 30,000 window heat pumps over the next several years.”  

Photo credit: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office