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In just two of the island’s buildings, there are roughly 1,550 broken cell doors, a high-ranking correction official told The City Reporter.
"If you're a staff member and everybody can get out of their cells at night, that’s scary,” said former Correction Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi, who served under Mayor Bill de Blasio. "That's scary for you, and that's scary for the incarcerated people."
The issue is among the challenges facing Rikers’ federal remediation manager, Nicholas Deml, who has ordered the Correction Department to develop a new security plan. Jail officials must document all broken doors in housing areas by Sept. 1 and then submit a detailed schedule for fixing them.
The department says it’s allocated $23 million to replace cell doors and is “actively” conducting repairs. Still, this isn’t the first time a federal oversight official has cited the jails’ broken cell doors as an urgent concern.
A high near 84 and cloudy, with possible showers and thunderstorms during the day. A low around 64 and partly cloudy at night.
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Midday in Brooklyn, Coney Island-bound N trains run on the D line from 36 Street to Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.
City Council Speaker Julie Menin is calling on the Mamdani administration to “urgently address” critical staff vacancies in the Health Department unit that investigates positive Legionella results in the city’s water supply, as officials tackle a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on the Upper East Side in which five people have died and more than 80 have gotten sick.
As The City Reporter reported this week, more than a third of the agency’s water ecologist positions are currently unfilled. These experts ensure building owners comply with monthly testing requirements showing their water and cooling systems are free of Legionella bacteria, which causes Legionnaires’ disease, a serious form of pneumonia. They also inspect cooling towers flagged for harmful levels of the bacteria.
“We need an answer” on the vacancies, Menin told reporters during a press conference at Lenox Hill Hospital on Tuesday. She announced lawmakers will hold an oversight hearing to probe the department’s handling of the outbreak.
Health officials say they’re working to onboard and recruit more than 20 new water ecologists. They also say recent remediation work on dozens of cooling towers in the neighborhood “likely” eliminated the outbreak’s source.
— Claudia Irizarry Aponte
Things To Do
Here’s what’s going on around the city this week.
Wednesday, July 22: Did somebody say “Looney Tunes?” Watch an outdoor screening of “Space Jam” in Brooklyn. Free, McCarren Park, 8:30-10:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 23: New York City-based singer-songwriter Joanie Leeds performs children’s music on the Upper West Side. Free, Riverside Park Pier 1, 10-11 a.m.
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