{"id":219991,"date":"2026-05-04T23:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219991\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:47:10","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-just-plain-horrible-coney-island-mother-grapples-with-lead-exposure-inside-her-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219991\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Just Plain Horrible Coney Island Mother Grapples With Lead Exposure Inside Her Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Coney Island mother says she is fed with the conditions of her apartment, which include lead exposure.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12&#8217;s cameras on Monday captured broken tiles, fractured flooring, and cracked walls line in Sandra Leon&#8217;s apartment in the Coney Island Houses.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She has repair tickets dating back to 2023, and NYCHA report from January 2025 found lead-based paint in her bathroom.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She also says she has been told the cracked tile also contains lead. Still, she says nothing has been done to repair the issues.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just plain horrible. This is three years in the making.&#8221; Leon said. &#8220;They know that there&#8217;s lead, but nothing is getting done.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In a statement to News 12, NYCHA responded:<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;NYCHA staff will work with the resident to schedule the necessary abatement and expedite the carpentry, plastering and painting work. NYCHA provides lead abatement to all residents through its groundbreaking <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nycha\/residents\/lead-safety\/tempo-program.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TEMPO<\/a> abatement program. Residents in need of assistance are encouraged to call the Customer Contact Center at 718-707-7771 or submit work tickets through the MyNYCHA application.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Coney Island mother says she is fed with the conditions of her apartment, which include lead exposure.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-219991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219991","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=219991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}