New York CIty Council Member Ben Kallos

New York Daily News EXCLUSIVE: NYCHA and Upper East Side tenants clash over plan to turn playground into luxury housing by Greg B. Smith

EXCLUSIVE: NYCHA and Upper East Side tenants clash over plan to turn playground into luxury housing

The Housing Authority insists that tenants of Holmes Towers on the Upper East Side have embraced its ambitious plan to raise cash by building luxury apartments on what’s now their playground.

That’s news to them.

The tenant “stakeholder committee” organized by NYCHA to vet the plan — along with Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and City Councilman Ben Kallos — made clear in a recent letter obtained by the Daily News that they never signed off on it.

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