See how public art and infrastructure are reshaping one of NYC’s most storm-impacted neighborhoods. This guided walk—co-led by NYCHA Asset & Capital Management's Senior Vice President for Capital Programs Joy Sinderbrand and Public Housing Community Fund's Executive Director Alex Zablocki—begins in Coffey Park with a stop at the 2024 community-led mural created with Artolution and local youth. From there, cross Red Hook Houses West to East to hear from the design team at Kohn Pedersen Fox about Superstorm Sandy’s impacts and the FEMA-funded resiliency investments that followed—elevated critical systems, flood protections, backup power, and new centralized infrastructure serving both campuses.

Along the way, visitors will encounter Red Hook Dreams (2025), a vibrant resident-co-created mural at Clinton Street & Hamilton Avenue on the façade of the new boiler plant—an artwork that also comes alive through an AR lens developed by neighborhood youth. The tour culminates in a behind-the-scenes hard hat tour inside the brand-new steam plant, the largest of its kind in NYCHA. Attendees will step inside to see the state-of-the-art boilers and flood-proofed systems that now provide reliable heat and hot water to thousands of residents, guided by NYCHA engineers and project leaders.

Why come? OHNY Weekend is about revealing places rarely open to the public—here you’ll experience the city’s largest public-housing resiliency program firsthand, learn how residents helped shape its design, and see how art and engineering come together in Red Hook.

Please be respectful of residents - Red Hook is their home. Do not take photos of people without permission. Visitors must be 18+