NYCHA in the hot seat at City Council hearing over arsenic scare
NYCHA was in the hot seat at a City Council hearing Friday afternoon over the recent arsenic scare at a Manhattan housing complex. CBS2's Lisa Rozner reports.
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NYCHA was in the hot seat at a City Council hearing Friday afternoon over the recent arsenic scare at a Manhattan housing complex. CBS2's Lisa Rozner reports.
The City Council is holding an oversight hearing to find out what led up to the testing confusion. CBS2's John Dias has the details.
The hearing was moved to City Hall after so many people showed up and they couldn't fit in the original room.
The New York City Council is holding a hearing today on the recent arsenic scare in the drinking water at the Jacob Riis Houses. CBS2's John Dias has the details.
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A Bronx woman says she's living in hell, her apartment ceiling leaking so badly, she's got buckets of water everywhere. The family living there says NYCHA's given them the run-around for two years. Lisa Rozner has the story you'll see only on CBS2.
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People who live on the floors directly above it say they're now experiencing health issues.
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Greg Russ, who was hired by former Mayor Bill de Blasio, is out as CEO of the public housing authority.
The mayor announced NYCHA CEO Greg Russ is out just days after tenants at the Jacob Riis Houses faced fears of arsenic in their water.
A lawyer for tenants at the Jacob Riis Houses announced a lawsuit Monday over this month's drinking water scare.
The lawsuit seeks damages for both illness or fear of illness from the scare, and also demands on-site health testing.
In a major about-face, city officials now say the water at the Jacob Riis Houses is safe to drink after a contamination scare that lasted a week. Mayor Eric Adams went there to try to reassure residents, but as CBS2's Dave Carlin reports, some still don't trust the turn of events.
The city now says test results finding arsenic in the water were not accurate, and the testing company is to blame.
The city now says there's no arsenic in the water at an East Village housing complex and that bad testing is to blame. As CBS2's Thalia Perez reports, a meeting about the issue held Friday night got heated.
The mayor's spokesperson said Friday that the lab issued a full retraction and released revised results.
The mayor's office says the lab that provided the initial tests claiming there was arsenic in the water at an East Village NYCHA complex now says the results were incorrect.
There are more water problems at an East Village NYCHA housing complex. After the discovery of arsenic, they're now worried about Legionnaires' disease. As CBS2's Thalia Perez reports, residents are exhausted and frustrated and want answers.
Days after traces of arsenic were discovered, a lab found traces of the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease.
The mayor's office put out a statement overnight, saying the latest test results show "no discernable amount of arsenic" in the water.
First, it was positive, then negative. Jacob Riis Houses tenants have no idea if their tap water contains arsenic.
New York City's public advocate is blasting Mayor Eric Adams and NYCHA for their handling of arsenic found in the water at the Jacob Riis Houses in the East Village. Tenants told CBS2's Jessica Moore they share his frustration.
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