CBS News: Developers are building a greener future for NYC. Here are some innovative ideas at NYCHA

While new climate-focused construction continues, projects around the city are also addressing the complicated needs of older buildings, like the hundreds of aging New York City Housing Authority properties. NYCHA is now piloting new easy-to-install window units to bring central heat and air to long-time tenants at the Woodside Houses in Queens, who never had their own temperature control.
"I love it," Regina Fred said about her Gradient model.
"Your skin was so dry, and it was either too much or too cold," added neighbor Sandra Ruffen. "You had to be opening the windows all the time or sleep with the fan to get some air, and ever since we have this, the air is so pure. You can breathe."
Data NYCHA is collecting shows successfully sustained temperatures with smaller consumption, helping to achieve the agency's goal to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050.
"We're seeing big improvement in the amount of energy that it takes to heat one of these apartments," said NYCHA's senior sustainability director Soibhan Watson, "and we think it has a lot of potential for being the new solution for heating and cooling."
The Woodside complex is simultaneously seeing newly designed roofs and outer walls as well.
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