NYCHA Fire Safety Symposia Coming to All Five Boroughs
Throughout this summer and continuing into the fall, NYCHA’s Fire Safety Department is joining forces with the Public Housing Community Fund, NYCHA’s Resident Engagement and Healthy Homes teams, the FDNY Education Unit, and the New York City Fire Museum to present a series of entertaining and informative events supporting a vital mission: fire safety education for NYCHA residents.
NYCHA’s leadership has worked for many years to improve fire safety and prevention for the NYCHA community and its developments. As NYCHA’s Director of Fire Safety Joe Terranova puts it: “The best kind of fire to have is the one that never happens in the first place.”
this summer and fall, a series of them will build on that success in all five boroughs.
“When I came on board in August of last year, there wasn’t yet an educational program in place for NYCHA’s residents,” said Mr. Terranova. “But then I saw that some of our partners were putting a program together, and it looked really strong. So I suggested that we join forces – and collaborating with them has led to the creation of a really great program.”
The Inaugural Fire Safety Symposium took place last October at the New York City Fire Museum. “We put the whole thing together in about six weeks,” said Mr. Terranova. “We hosted a great dinner, we invited the leaders of all of NYCHA’s resident associations to come – and all in all, about 70 people showed up. The event was a big hit!”
The Inaugural Symposium’s success inspired Mr. Terranova and his colleagues to expand the opportunity citywide. “We saw the success of that first event and had to ask ourselves: ‘Why don’t we just take this to the boroughs?’ And that’s exactly what we’re doing now, through this summer and fall.”
The first event of this new series took place on July 15 at the Bronx River Community Center; five more are coming up:
August 13 – Queensbridge Community Center
10-25 41st Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101
(718) 784-7447 ext. 35
5pm – 8pm
August 27 – Beach 41st Street Community Center
426 Beach 40th Street
Far Rockaway, NY 11691
(718) 471-5453
5pm – 8pm
September 16 – Stapleton Community Center
230 Broad Street
Staten Island, NY 10304
(718) 448-5000
5pm – 8pm
September 23 – Carey Gardens Community Center
2315 Surf Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11224
(718) 996-5893
5pm – 8pm
October 2024 – Manhattan venue to be determined
For more information about NYCHA’s 2024 Fire Safety Symposia Series or to register to attend, please email the Resident Engagement team at resident.engagement@nycha.nyc.gov.