“All of this month we’ve been drinking this water. On Saturday morning, she found a letter from NYCHA revealing the arsenic finding and advising tenants not to drink the water. She said she had to inform her elderly neighbor about what was going on. Mitchell was furious that she only learned of the arsenic finding from the news. “I’m really trying to find out what’s going on because they’re not telling us anything.” “We’re not getting no information until the mayor came here last night,” said tenant Shaquane Mitchell, 49, who’s lived in Riis for 18 years. Many didn’t realize that Adams had been there until seeing news reports about his appearance the next day. Tenants complained on Saturday that they had been kept in the dark about the testing prior to the mayor’s appearance. After midnight, the mayor’s office tweeted photos of him handing out water - but did not mention that arsenic-tainted tap water was the reason he’d been doing that. That came after NYCHA began trucking in cases of bottled water for drinking and cooking, with Mayor Eric Adams paying an emergency visit to the development after 10 p.m. Members and sponsors make THE CITY possible. On Saturday, the city housing authority began advising the 2,600 tenants of Riis not to drink or cook (though they can still bathe) with the water coming out of their taps. Attorney in 2016 documented that NYCHA management had for years covered up squalid conditions endured by so many of the city’s 400,000 public housing residents. The monitor was appointed after the Manhattan U.S. “We are concerned and the monitorship is investigating,” said Montieth Illingworth, a spokesman for the monitor, Bart Schwartz. On Saturday, the federal monitor who has jurisdiction over NYCHA announced he would be looking into the circumstances surrounding the testing at Riis. But NYCHA sat on those results for 24 hours, and there was no public acknowledgement or warning until City Hall confirmed the arsenic finding on late Friday - after THE CITY began asking about it. detected arsenic, which the earlier test had not checked for.
And on Thursday those results - from the private water management company LiquiTech Inc. NYCHA then decided, for reasons not yet explained, to retest the water. Two weeks ago, after reports of cloudy water from residents, NYCHA received results declaring the water drinkable. The discovery of arsenic in the tap water of a Lower East Side public housing development, first reported by THE CITY on Friday evening, has raised questions about how NYCHA handled the testing and triggered an investigation by the federal monitor overseeing the authority.
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