Residents at a Bronx NYCHA development say safety inside their building has spiraled out of control, putting families at risk.<\/p>\n
News 12 has an exclusive look inside Mitchel Houses, where residents say stairwells have become unsafe and unsanitary. A man was found inside one stairwell getting dressed, a moment residents say reflects a larger issue they\u2019ve been dealing with for months.<\/p>\n
Several residents described people sleeping in stairwells overnight and leaving behind bedding, food, trash and drugs.<\/p>\n
Residents also pointed to disturbing conditions inside the stairwells, including dried blood smeared on walls and floors and blood-stained needles. One resident said they\u2019ve witnessed people injecting themselves with needles and dropping them on the floor.<\/p>\n
Many residents say they avoid the stairwells altogether, only using them when elevators are not working, citing strong odors and debris that make it difficult to walk through.<\/p>\n
While residents say cleaning crews do come through, they believe the cleanups are temporary and fail to address the root of the problem.<\/p>\n
The concerns come months after the complex made headlines in October when a chimney collapse left residents without gas. Some residents say they are still dealing with unresolved issues, including gas outages and water problems, while new safety concerns continue to emerge.<\/p>\n
NYCHA says staff monitors stairwell conditions daily and are working with law enforcement to address trespassing. NYCHA says residents should report concerns to 311 or NYPD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents at a Bronx NYCHA development say safety inside their building has spiraled out of control, putting families…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[21710,128,20995,28647,452,9,24,63,305,9952,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-84749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-apartment-conditions","tag-bronx","tag-homeless","tag-mitchel","tag-mitchel-houses","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nycha","tag-nycha-complex","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84749","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=84749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}