Wave of no-heat calls floods city phones

THE MAYOR insisted Friday NYCHA was doing the best it could to tackle heating system breakdowns all over the city, but tenants at more than a dozen developments said otherwise.

By noon, public housing residents at 13 developments from Brownsville, Brooklyn, to Far Rockaway, Queens, had deluged the Public Adovate’s office with no-heat complaints.

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer tracked heat problems at another 10 from the Lower East Side to Harlem.

And as tenants shivered in frigid apartments, a growing number of elected officials demanded that NYCHA get its act together.

Controller Scott Stringer planned to announce Saturday he’s launched an audit after his staff this week discovered an alarming number of boiler breakdowns.

And Councilman Ritchie Torres, (D-Bronx), chairman of the public housing committee, on Friday demanded the mayor steer more funds to fix the aging boilers that have been increasingly breaking down as the mercury plummets.

On WNYC, de Blasio was asked how NYCHA was handling its pervasive heating glitches, and downplayed the issue.

“As the problems have been occurring, we've been getting the heat back on in each development. There are still a few, for sure, that we have more work to do,” he said.

The mayor conceded there were “some developments right now that need heat restored,” but that usually NYCHA can fix the problem in a few hours.

But over the holiday weekend and throughout the frigid week, entire developments across the city found themselves without heat, some for days at a time.

NYCHA set up a command center Thursday, opened warming rooms at some of the affected projects, and added staff to restore heat. As of 4 p.m., NYCHA spokeswoman Jasmine Blake said nine developments housing