"Chelsea Addition, a New York City public housing building for seniors, sits just blocks from Hudson Yards. Built in 1968 and framed by evergreen shrubs, a wispy curving pine, and London Plane trees that dot the surrounding campus, it's home to a diverse and tight-knit community of older adults, many of whom have lived in public housing their whole lives. In the lobby, flyers advertise game nights and dance lessons in the Elliott community center housed in the same building."
"For some tenants, however, these everyday rhythms will soon change. In late July, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) sent notices that residents will have to move out of their apartments within three months. Chelsea Addition is the first of 19 buildings slated to be demolished and replaced at the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses (FEC), part of a years-long, contentious redevelopment project meant to preserve the public housing complex in Manhattan's wealthy Chelsea neighborhood."
Chelsea Addition is a senior public housing building near Hudson Yards with a diverse, tight-knit community and on-site social programming. NYCHA issued notices requiring residents to move out within three months as the building becomes the first of 19 slated for demolition and replacement under the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses redevelopment. Most of the roughly 3,400 FEC tenants will remain in place while new towers are built, but about 120 households will be temporarily relocated and later returned. Approximately 79 of those households are seniors. Residents worry the moves and an off-campus community center relocation will disrupt critical support services and social networks.
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