A news conference Tuesday, April 14, celebrated the arrival of new stoves to residents of Yonkers’ 415-unit Palisade Towers public housing complex, part of a $35-million project to shift the eight buildings to electric service from gas.
The three-phase project aims to deliver new appliances, air conditioning, and other benefits that will be healthier for residents as well as energy efficient and better for the environment, according to a news release previewing Tuesday’s event.
Gas service at the apartment complex was shut off on Aug. 30, 2024, after pipe corrosion was discovered while Con Edison crews tried to repair a reported gas leak. Residents have been without gas since that time, using temporary boilers for hot water, the Journal News/lohud.com reported. They’ve been utilizing temporary burners and convection ovens since.
‘A monumental effort’ to restore services at Palisade Towers
“This is a monumental effort to restore services to our tenants here” at Palisade Towers, said Wilson Kimball, president and CEO of Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers, adding: “Since then, every single person I have talked to has said to me, ‘How can I help?'”
Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins said, “We all came together to invest in what is the long-term, permanent solution.”
City Council President Lakisha Collins-Bellamy thanked the residents for things including their understanding and, most importantly, their patience through a trying time.
As word of the gas shut-off emerged in 2024, dozens of restaurants and local businesses donated food, money and appliances such as microwaves to the residents, including Stew Leonards’ grocery store, P.C. Richard and Sons and St. Joseph’s Hospital, which gave temporary relief.
In July 2025, the Journal News/lohud.com reported that the Municipal Housing Authority of Yonkers said a bid was awarded to an Armonk-based contracting company to convert the buildings to electric power by October 2026.
The city’s municipal authority had sought to convert the buildings to electric well before the gas leak, the housing authority’s president and CEO has said.
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Yonkers’ Palisade Towers complex gets electric stove delivery
Reporting by Michael P. McKinney, Rockland/Westchester Journal News / Rockland/Westchester Journal News
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