At Haven Plaza in the East Village, residents say the building\u2019s name no longer matches their reality.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve always had water issues: browning water, no water, no hot water. But this?\u201d resident Lisette Alejandro said.<\/p>\n
Two cases of Legionnaires\u2019 disease within a year led the city\u2019s Department of Health to test the complex and find Legionella bacteria in its water system.<\/p>\n
For nearly two months, many residents say the DOH\u2019s guidance has kept them from showering normally.<\/p>\n
\u201cYesterday, I did a little workout, and that\u2019s where I did my shower,\u201d resident Janet Sibarium said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people can\u2019t bathe. I don\u2019t have the knees. I\u2019m not going to bathe and not be able to get up,\u201d Alejandro said.<\/p>\n
A written notice advised residents 50 years old and older, and others at high risk, not to shower.<\/p>\n
But Manhattan Council Member Harvey Epstein said residents heard broader instructions at a meeting.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn writing, they talked about only people with compromised health issues shouldn\u2019t shower. Then in the meeting, they said everyone shouldn\u2019t shower,\u201d Epstein said.<\/p>\n
A notice taped to the entrance warned of a water shutdown as remediation began on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Catholic Homes and Wavecrest Management told NY1 in a statement: \u201cManagement is fully committed to the health and safety of the residents and is providing regular updates to the tenant association.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe communication or the lack of communication just compounds the situation,\u201d Dana Cruz, the president of Haven Plaza Tenants Association, said.<\/p>\n
According to the DOH, it\u2019s held multiple town halls, met with residents as recently as Tuesday and the building remains under evaluation.<\/p>\n
Testing must show that the bacteria is under control before that evaluation ends.<\/p>\n
Until then, residents say Haven Plaza still has a long way to go before it lives up to its name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Haven Plaza in the East Village, residents say the building\u2019s name no longer matches their reality. \u201cWe\u2019ve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2952,25,2953,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,27,200],"class_list":["post-309395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-health","tag-app-top-stories","tag-health","tag-louis-finley","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309395","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=309395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}