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 ...

Built in 1949, the public-housing complex of 1,727 apartments in 19 buildings literally replaced the tenements Riis denounced as unsafe and unsanitary. The New York City Housing Authority started ...

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) ...

Mayor Eric Adams handed out water bottles at the New York City Housing Authority’s Jacob Riis Houses in Manhattan on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. Even brief exposure to arsenic can cause brain damage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 city’s public housing authority discovered traces of arsenic in the tap water at one of its biggest developments in Manhattan, the Jacob Riis Houses in the East Village, THE CITY has learned.

The City Council held a hearing Friday into the recent arsenic scare at the Riis Houses, a public housing development in Manhattan NYCHA offered an apology to residents, who were told by city ...