{"id":368638,"date":"2026-10-09T05:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T05:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368638\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T05:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T05:56:32","slug":"im-scared-to-take-a-bath-residents-react-after-legionella-found-at-staten-island-apartments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368638\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m Scared to Take a Bath\u2019: Residents React After Legionella Found at Staten Island Apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Residents at Castleton Park Apartments on Staten Island are worried about water safety after two tenants were diagnosed with Legionnaires&#8217; disease. The New York City Health Department confirmed Legionella bacteria in the building&#8217;s water system and is investigating its hot water system. One resident said &#8220;I&#8217;m scared to take a bath,&#8221; while another described how safety guidance has disrupted daily routines for elderly tenants. Remediation is underway. Health officials say residents can drink cold tap water, and there is no risk to the surrounding community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents at Castleton Park Apartments on Staten Island are worried about water safety after two tenants were diagnosed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-368638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368638","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=368638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}