NYCHA first received reports of “cloudy water” streaming out of taps at Manhattan’s Riis Houses in May — months before a water supply arsenic scare upended the lives of thousands of ...

Trace amounts of arsenic were detected in the drinking water at NYCHA’s Jacob Riis Houses in Manhattan last week, according to city officials. The federal monitor overseeing NYCHA directed the ...

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 September 4 ...

Unlike other developments where NYCHA has held votes in recent years, residents at the Jacob Riis Houses will choose between only two options: the Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) ...

Mando Martinez, a lifelong resident of the Jacob Riis Houses, holds a can of water provided by the city after NYCHA warned tenants not to drink or cook with their tap water. In the aftermath of ...

It asked for NYCHA to turn over documents related to several line items of questions by Sept. 20. Regarding the investigation into the Jacob Riis Houses water quality, one request they’re making ...

EAST VILLAGE, Manhattan (WABC) -- More than 2,500 people living at a NYCHA complex in the East Village ... Residents of the Jacob Riis Houses filled up carts on Saturday night with free cases ...

The residents of Jacob A. Riis worked hard this past year—and that hard work paid off.” NYCHA spokesperson Michael Horgan, after the vote, told AN about concerns moving forward related to ...

Residents at NYCHA's Jacob Riis Houses are still being told to use bottled water to bathe, cook and drink despite the city saying the lab responsible for detecting arsenic has issued a retraction ...

Residents are saying "enough is enough." NYCHA residents protest living conditions outside Jacob Riis Houses Outside the Jacob Riis Houses on the Lower East Side, residents protested with a list ...