NIMBYs living in million-dollar pads are trying to derail the planned massive overhaul of one of Manhattan’s largest NYCHA apartment complexes.

The city’s first-of-its-kind public-private partnership with prominent social-driven real-estate firms Related Companies and Essence Developments aims to create an entirely new neighborhood in place of the dilapidated Fulton & Elliott–Chelsea Housing projects.

But some well-heeled locals are pushing back against the touted trail-blazing type of public housing. 6

Lydia Andre, a leader of her Chelsea neighborhood block coalition, has been knocking on the NYCHA tenants’ doors, warning them of the project’s dangers since it was announced.

She is the first to admit she doesn’t want to deal with the noise and pollution of a 16-plus-year local co

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