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Sanit Commissioner Garcia Asked To Clean Up NYCHA

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 2/11/19

Mayor de Blasio announced Feb. 5 that Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia would become Interim Chair of the New York City Housing Authority, a move that the leader of the union representing NYCHA employees said signaled that finding permanent leadership to run the embattled agency would be a tall task.

A deal reached six days earlier between the city and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development meant to address longstanding problems including lead paint exposure and broken elevators at NYCHA gave officials 30 days to come up with a list of candidates to replace the agency’s Interim Chair, veteran municipal “fixer-upper” Stanley Brezenoff. Ms. Garcia will step in until city and Federal officials appoint a permanent leader.

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