The city is spending $38.4 million to put heat pumps in the 712 units at the Housing Authority’s Beach 41st Street Houses. No need to get your calculators out. I got you. That’s $54,000 per unit. Mayor Zohran Mamdani shared the first two numbers, but not the third one, on Wednesday in Far Rockaway as he proudly announced the expenditure. “The need for this infrastructure is urgent,” he said. Mamdani said when he represented Queensbridge Houses in the Assembly, its residents would tell him “of a heating system that was so unreliable that they would have to regulate the heat […]

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