CUNY staff and local leaders rallied on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall Wednesday to sound the alarm about unsafe conditions at their buildings.<\/p>\n
Staff members say they deal with things like holes in the ceiling, mold, leaks and more.<\/p>\n
The group is calling on CUNY and the city to provide funding to fix the issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a risk of a tile, I’ll fall on my head. Squirrels or raccoons inside the campuses, or, as you see, exposed plumbing and black mold,” said Arturo Enamorado, a lecturer at Kingsborough Community College.<\/p>\n
Associate Professor Jean Grassman says something needs to change.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople don’t realize that they have the right to have a safe workplace. And so, we’re wanting to make that a reality,” said Grassman.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso was at the rally. He says the conditions are a distraction to students.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re more worried or you’re distracted by mold or leaky roofs, than you are being able to pay attention to your teacher. It’s a problem,” said Reynoso.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for CUNY issued a statement to News 12 about the situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe health and safety of our students, faculty and staff is CUNY\u2019s top priority. That\u2019s why, over the past two years, the University has invested $850 million in our facilities, completing or advancing more than 100 projects. In the coming year, our goal is to allocate another $400 million for repairs and maintenance, ensuring our colleges continue to provide a high-quality learning environment,” the spokesperson wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CUNY staff and local leaders rallied on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall Wednesday to sound the alarm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-206913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206913","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=206913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}