A Coney Island family is concerned after the ceiling collapsed inside of their NYCHA apartment at the Unity Towers. <\/p>\n
Nacobia Williams is now putting a facemask on her 6-month-old daughter because she\u2019s worried about what the newborn is breathing in. <\/p>\n
\u201cI feel frustration,\u201d said Williams. \u201cI feel anger. I\u2019m scared because I don\u2019t know what\u2019s in this [air].\u201d <\/p>\n
Williams said it all started a little over a month ago, when a leak ran along the ceiling of her living room and dining area. <\/p>\n
Then it bubbled and burst onto her, the newborn, as well as her two sons. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was brown water,\u201d said Williams. \u201cIt was plaster. It was pieces of the wall that came down.\u201d <\/p>\n
Pieces were still coming down on Tuesday when News 12 visited the apartment. News 12 crews saw paint chipping and peeling from the walls and a soft spot sat near the windows. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is deployable conditions,\u201d said Williams. \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t have to live like this. We keep getting sick. We\u2019re back and forth from the hospital; and [NYCHA is] like, \u2018We\u2019re going to fix it.\u2019 [And then] nothing.\u201d <\/p>\n
Williams old News 12 that she can\u2019t use the outlets on the wall, and NYCHA turned off her heat about two weeks ago. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey cut off the heat due to the steam leaking out of this hole here, so now it\u2019s been cold,\u201d said Williams. <\/p>\n
She said she is up to date on her rent and is now demanding answers from NYCHA. <\/p>\n
\u201cGet it together,\u201d yelled Williams. \u201cWe need immediate repairs!\u201d <\/p>\n
News 12 reached out to NYCHA on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
A spokesperson said Williams and her family are expected to move to a temporary apartment by Friday. NYCHA will then make repairs and return the family to their home as soon as possible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Coney Island family is concerned after the ceiling collapsed inside of their NYCHA apartment at the Unity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,6521,119,9,24,63,305,9952,3738],"class_list":["post-129433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-ceiling-collapse","tag-coney-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nycha","tag-nycha-complex","tag-taking-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}