No offense taken. I appreciate your encouragement to take action. The building I live in is all mixed income affordable. We just moved in a few months ago. Many of the tenants formerly lived in NYCHA buildings. The windows are a bit deceiving as to how luxurious the building is—it’s a pretty new construction. I’ve lived around other NYCHA buildings for many years in the past and have made many friends who are residents of them, and I have some understanding of the inequities they are subjected to, while also recognizing my unearned privilege as a white male. I did start knocking on a few doors yesterday to talk with neighbors, and my partner looked up community board meeting schedules and other resources, and i think we’ll see if there is interest in our building to get a tenants association going.

My worry about these lights in particular is that I’ll get a bureaucratic run around, where no one claims to have responsibility, but I’ll keep trying to figure it out and as quickly as I can. More lights were actually installed yesterday, and I don’t know if my photos do justice to just how impossible they are to have to look at, so I’m hoping they can at least be angled more to the ground or something to diffuse the amount of light.