The city housing authority offered a new concession to 24 elderly tenants who are holding up a contentious $1.2 billion plan to raze and rebuild several dilapidated Manhattan public housing developments, giving the holdouts the option of transferring to senior housing similar to their current home.
Two-dozen residents at Chelsea Addition, ranging in age from their late 60s to mid-90s, have balked at a plan that would force them to move out for three years and return when the new building is expected to be complete. They say they’re not going anywhere.
The housing authority’s signature plan — backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani — involves demolishing 18 NYCHA buildings in the Fulton, Elliott and Chelsea Houses and Chelsea Addition, and replacing them with six new towers for the residents of those developments, while erecting nine additional buildings that would include 2,500 market rate apartments and 900 affordable units…