{"id":514716,"date":"2026-01-14T04:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/514716\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T04:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:44:13","slug":"residents-demand-answers-after-positive-legionnaires-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/514716\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents demand answers after positive Legionnaires tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of fear right now, rightfully so, among the members of our community,\u201d Councilmember Shaun Abreu said.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Residents at 3333 Broadway in Manhattan are demanding answers after learning two tenants were diagnosed with Legionnaires&#8217; disease within the last 12 months<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The city is evaluating towers A and B because they share the same water supply<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe are not here to place blame. We are here to demand accountability,\u201d Heaven Berhane, a\u00a0tenant at 3333 Broadway, said.<\/p>\n<p>Residents gathered outside the building ahead of a meeting with health department officials, pressing for clarity.<\/p>\n<p>They say the guidance from a meeting with management last week wasn\u2019t clear, and that\u2019s left them frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are asking for all towers to be tested,\u201d Berhane said.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>\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<p>According to Wong, there is no risk to the surrounding community.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>\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<p>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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":514717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,31018,7448,210,21400,5249,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-514716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-health","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-louis-finley","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115891631830016587","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}