Residents of NYCHA Jacob Riis Houses were seen filling bottles from NYC DEP water stations or collecting bottled water at Avenue D and East 10th Street in Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. - Theodore Parisienne/New York Daily News/TNS
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams questioned Monday why members of his own administration didn’t inform him sooner about arsenic being discovered in the drinking water at a massive New York City Housing Authority complex in Manhattan. According to a city government official, NYCHA brass first found out this past Thursday that elevated levels of the dangerous chemical had been detected in the water at the Riis Houses in the East Village. But, speaking to the Daily News on Monday morning, Adams claimed he wasn’t told of the arsenic until the next day, suggesting a communication breakdown may be to bla...
