Encarnación asks how NYCHA defines neighborhoods; Greene describes 28 geographic portfolios

Thank you, Chair.

Hello, everyone.

I'm Councilmember Elsie Encarnacion.

I represent District 8, East Harlem and the South Bronx, the most concentration of nature developments in a district.

I have a few questions.

In your opening statement,

in regards to work order reform.

You talked about decentralizing the skill trades and assigning skill trades to each neighborhood.

How do you define a neighborhood?

Thank you, Council Member, for your question.

So when the transformation plan took effect in 2022, 2023,

Nightshade was moved into about, currently now it's 28 neighborhoods, so it was originally 30.

We've since gone down to 28.

It's geography, really.

So geography, so for example, neighborhood five in Manhattan includes East River, Wagner, Jefferson, and Wilson.

So all neighborhoods in close proximity to one another, which reduces travel time amongst the trades.

So that was the predominant factor.

Some neighborhoods, given where they are located, are a little bit larger than others.

But generally, we try to group things as geographically connected as possible.

Are those the ones that you just named because they're all mine?

Are they all in...

Are they the only ones in that neighborhood?

Yes.

So that is Neighborhood 5 in Manhattan.

And I'll just use that as an example.

So Neighborhood 5 has a neighborhood administrator who oversees the neighborhood.

And then each of the four property managers at those properties report to the

the neighborhood administrator.

The neighborhood administrator also has, who reports to him, a neighborhood planner and a neighborhood planner secretary.

So they are responsible for scheduling all of the skilled trade work for that neighborhood.

Do they all have the same amount of developments per neighborhood?

Roughly, yeah.

We try to have about 5,000 units altogether in each neighborhood.

So each neighborhood has, some neighborhoods have three developments, some neighborhoods have five.

I think our largest neighborhood is neighborhood four in Brooklyn, which is Hughes, Van Dyke, Brownsville, Woodson, Southwood.

Because everything is so close together.

So, yeah.