BOOZY NYCHA 'ORGIES'
NYCHA workers transformed a Bronx housing project into their own personal sex club — with wild, boozy orgies inside offices, the groundskeepers shop and empty apartments, sources said Monday.
It happened on “overtime, during working hours, after working hours, any day or any time of the day,” said Throggs Neck Houses Tenant Association President Monique Johnson. “I now understand why work wasn’t getting done.”
Things got so bad this month that the New York City Housing Authority transferred the entire complex staff — roughly 40 people — to another location. None was immediately fired. “There was a lot of people in- cluded,” Johnson told The Post. “Supervisors were allegedly having sexual relations with caretakers. There was drinking and sexual acts going on . . . More playing and less working.”
At any given time, staff members would find up to a dozen people taking part in the orgies, according to sources.
Fed-up workers secretly shot videos and photos as evidence that they offered up to NYCHA management, the sources said.
Complaints were also filed with the Department of Investigation, which on Aug. 15 recommended NYCHA take disciplinary action, according to a city official.
The agency’s general manager, Vito Mustaciuolo, ordered the Throggs Neck staff off the premises Friday and asked everyone to turn in their keys, even the workers who weren’t involved.
“It’s bittersweet,” Johnson said. “It gives us the opportunity to start fresh, start anew. But you have workers that have been here for 20-plus years. They had nothing to do with these allegations, and now they’ve been uprooted. I feel sad for them.”
NYCHA spokeswoman Robin Levine said the agency had “longstanding concerns about management and performance issues” at the Throggs Neck Houses.
“Those concerns, coupled with troubling allegations of misconduct, are why the staff was reassigned,” Levine said.
Councilman Ritchie Torres, who grew up in the Throggs Neck Houses and chairs the council’s investigations committee, hopes more is done to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
“If true, those employees have to be disciplined,” he said. “There needs to be more than reassignments, there needs to be a DOI investigation. Those who feel the need to hold sex parties have no business being employed at the New York City Housing Authority.”
The sexcapades are the latest black eye for the agency.
Mayor de Blasio agreed to pay as much as $2.2 billion over the next decade to settle federal charges that NYCHA neglected and even covered up hazardous conditions at it complexes for years. Agency officials, the feds alleged, hid their failure to conduct required lead inspections and potentially left hundreds of children exposed to the toxin.