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Ex-NYCHA super gets 18 months in prison for accepting bribes

BY CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 5/16/25

A former superintendent at the city Housing Authority has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for demanding $30,000 in bribes in exchange for granting $400,000 in contracts.

Hector Colon, 47, who worked as a superintendent at several NYCHA developments across Manhattan, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman and ordered to pay $30,000 in restitution. He was also sentenced to two years of supervised release.

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