Seeking Refuge, Poisoned By Lead

WNYC News | Apr 23, 2019

According to the most recent data, nearly 5,000 children in the New York City were shown to have elevated lead levels last year. But as Mayor Bill de Blasio and other elected officials have renewed the city’s commitment to ending lead poisoning in New York City, Gothamist/WNYC has found that, in one case, a family was placed in a dangerous apartment with aging lead paint through a program for survivors of domestic violence. And nearly three months since the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene ordered the landlord to remove the paint, repairs still haven’t been completed.

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