Residents at a Manhattan building are demanding answers after learning two tenants were diagnosed with Legionnaires\u2019 disease within the last 12 months.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of fear right now, rightfully so, among the members of our community,\u201d Councilmember Shaun Abreu said.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Residents at 3333 Broadway in Manhattan are demanding answers after learning two tenants were diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease within the last 12 months
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The concern also comes in the shadow of the Harlem outbreak this past summer, which killed at least seven people and sickened more than 100
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The city is evaluating towers A and B because they share the same water supply<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not here to place blame. We are here to demand accountability,\u201d Heaven Berhane, a\u00a0tenant at 3333 Broadway, said.<\/p>\n
Residents gathered outside the building ahead of a meeting with health department officials, pressing for clarity.<\/p>\n
They say the guidance from a meeting with management last week wasn\u2019t clear, and that\u2019s left them frustrated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are asking for all towers to be tested,\u201d Berhane said.<\/p>\n
The concern also comes in the shadow of the Harlem outbreak this past summer, which killed at least seven people and sickened more than 100.<\/p>\n
But health officials say the situation is not connected to that community cluster, and they stress this is not being treated as an outbreak.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no cooling tower at this building. We are looking specifically at the hot water supply,\u201d Assistant Commissioner at the New York Health Department Ricky Wong said.<\/p>\n
According to Wong, there is no risk to the surrounding community.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s still unclear how those two tenants were exposed. But the city is currently evaluating towers A and B because they share the same water supply. Sampling is still underway.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the science and the evidence point us to a commonality like a shared address, we focus on that particular building,\u201d Wong said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the management company says it\u2019s fully complying with the health department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents at a Manhattan building are demanding answers after learning two tenants were diagnosed with Legionnaires\u2019 disease within…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99770,"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":{"0":"post-99769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-app-health","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-louis-finley","12":"tag-manhattan","13":"tag-manhattan-headlines","14":"tag-manhattan-news","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99769","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=99769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}