He had to be backed into a corner by this newspaper and the Department of Justice, but Mayor de Blasio is now correctly having the city use standards set by federal health experts to protect children from lead-paint poisoning.
City Hall’s assurances that only 19 children living in the Housing Authority have been poisoned by lead was devastatingly misleading. Health Department records obtained by the Daily News show 820 NYCHA kids since 2012 ingested quantities of lead sufficient to cause neurological damage. Citywide, nearly 28,000 children did.
They and their families have to live evermore with the tragic reality: lead poisoning in NYCHA, and beyond, is a far greater public health menace than the mayor has been willing to admit or act on, leaving it to special ed teachers to administer to minds forever stunted.
The coverup consists of two sins, one in the headlines and one behind the scenes.
Shouldn't this be a criminal investigation at this point? The FBI has been investigating a payment made to a porn star for more than a year but no one is sinking their teeth into this?
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This is on par with Flint Michigan poisoning of the water. So where is the major outrage by both people and the media, just like the Flint Michigan disaster.
Trump and deBlasio, flip side of different coins. They feel they are both above the law, both criticize the media when they provide actual facts and both seem to get away with so much shit. UNBELIEVABLE.
What do expect in a deep blue Democratic controled shit hole like NYC?
Plan your exit strategy.
Really?
To blame this on Trump is just ridiculous and exposes your rampant Trump Derangement Syndrome. That is just sad.
He wasn't even a politician before 2016 and never at the local/city level. To include him the the entrenched Blue State career politicians is pure folly.
That being said, if this was a private company doing this there would be trials and jail time. Why is it not the same when it is career city employees?
The only good part? Another nail in the coffin of the hopes of DeBlasio for President!
It seems like a cliche, but if the kids were white people would care.
What is routinely tolerated in the black and minority community, crime, litter, bad schools, lack of services, etc. would never be tolerated in a largely white (middle class or affluent) community.
I actually heard some clown on WBAB over the weekend claiming that charter schools in minority communities are not the answer and why can't minority area schools have the same standards as majority white area schools? That we don't put charter schools in white communities because we only feel comfortable experimenting with teaching methods on minority students. That sort of ridiculous nonsense is why it is so hard to get minority students out of failing schools. Their lifeline out of generational poverty is an education and a charter school significantly improves their options but runs afoul of the Democrat party and the teachers union who want their students uneducated and poor so they rely on the government.
"You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die.' - Old Folk Wisdom
Not surprising in the least. It was evident that he had no managerial skills, only empty rhetoric. For all those who stayed home on voting day, be mindful that elections gave consequences. We are living (or dying) with those consequences now.
Federal E.P.A. should prosecute them all.
'Shouldn't this be a criminal investigation at this point? The FBI has been investigating a payment made to a porn star for more than a year but no one is sinking their teeth into this?'
Doesn't that just about sum it up? This problem got the Hillary email scandal treatment. Move along, nothing to see here. Cleared before the investigation began.
Too bad Preet is gone. He would have everyone cleared already.
People in public housing only vote Democrat. They let the politicians do anything to them. Why complain now?
The 1%ers don't care about these people in "the projects". Their purpose is to work hard wiping the asses of the 1%ers, then die. In the meantime they are warehoused out of sight and out of mind in shit conditions.
While the dope from Park Slope laps up the perks of his office.
As tragic and disgusting as this is, the press conference and DeBlasio's oblivious and deceitful answer's were worse.
Where was this before the past Mayoral election? It didn't start this week.
Sycophantic media at its worst finally having its feet held to the fire.
'City Hall’s assurances that only 19 children living in the Housing Authority have been poisoned by lead was devastatingly misleading.'
Only 2,000 kids have been separated from their parents at the border (the rest came without their parents) and those 2,000 have great healthcare!
Only 19 were poisoned? And even that was a lie?
Where are the other democrats lining up to attack? Is Stringer the only one who will stand up for the kids? And then only when forced to?
What a party of useless assholes. As useful as a nipple on a bull.
Stories like this make we wish I could move out of the city.
As soon as I retire, if I ever can afford to, I am out!
Our tax money goes to this. Our tax money will go to fixing this. Is there no end?
And where is Governor Cuomo not even talking about what he will do!!! Nothing!!
Can't understand why everyone is so incensed about illegal alien children being separated from their mothers when crossing the border illegally, yet our children (mostly American citizens) who have broken no laws are being poisoned by a legally government- run housing institution. The illelgals are being fed, clothed and housed to be made comfortable. Our poor city kids get not comfort and are sick. No demonstrations, no empathy. What the hell is wrong with everyone? There should be demonstrations in front of all NYCHA buildings, as well as city hall. Mayor DeBlasio and everyone involved in NYCHA should be held accountable. Most should be fired. Why do politicians coddle lawbreakers, while the innocent, law-abiding kids and their parents suffer?
Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn't know because they might reflect badly on Democrats.
-Jim Treacher
This should never have gotten this far. The problem with the city is that they build build build but yet in 20 or 30 years, their infrastructures fall apart and are never kept up. This will probably be the same fate as the stupid "affordable housing" they keep building. If you cant keep up with the ones you already have, then more should not be going up. It's like if a couple has one baby that they are already struggling to afford, then should they really consider having a second baby? Same concept applies here. Thank mayor dumbdumb and Bloomberg and Giuliani and every mayor who FAILED to upkeep city housing and infrastructures and roads.
FIRED?
They should be ARRESTED!
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Really?
To blame this on Trump is just ridiculous and exposes your rampant Trump Derangement Syndrome. That is just sad.
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Do some of you on here actually FUCKING READ AND COMPREHEND SENTENCES. I never said that Trump was to blame for this. Of course he had nothing to do with this. I was just comparing one Republican asshole with a Democrat asshole and how much the two are similar.
LEARN TO READ.
The New York fakenews Times is completely ignoring the criminality and deception of those directly responsible for this poisoning of American children.
'The only good part? Another nail in the coffin of the hopes of DeBlasio for President!'
Amen to that.
Investigate? Jail time?
Please...
Not one of these clowns will even lose a cent from their fat city and taxpayer provided pensions.
God Bless the taxpayer and every cent we can wring out of him!
Hello Trump suck up.
Trump hates brown and dark people!
Think that's fake news, huh?
Out of his own mouth he convicted himself. "Mexicans are rapists" etc.
However he was not directly responsible for this shit. BUT his climate of anger and hatred has not solved any problems in our country nor helped our diminished position in the eyes of the civilized world.
Got a problem with that?
Then, FU!
"Make America Hate Again" was the real hidden campaign slogan.
Government should not be in the housing business in the first place.
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The New York fakenews Times is completely ignoring the criminality and deception of those directly responsible for this poisoning of American children.
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First off the New York Times has written many articles on this subject (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/nyregion/lead-paint-nyc-de-blasio-olatoye-nycha.html).
Second, when assholes like you and Mr. Trump continue to paint the media as "fake news", then there is no center on what is truth anymore, meaning that 2 + 2 can now be 5.
You know who does this besides assholes like yourself and Trump, dictators. This is their first strategy, to discredit the media. Once the media is discredited, anything fucking goes and then the country as a state sponsored media, where only the powers that be determine what is news and what is real. How fucking UNPATRIOTIC you and the others assholes that constantly state "fake news" are. Completely UNPATRIOTIC and AMERICAN ASSHOLES. And you talk about illegal immigrants as the enemies. The REAL ENEMIES are assholes like you, Trump and any other followers of him who constantly chant "fake news" and undermine our democracy. Well here is a suggestion, move to RUSSIA then. Bask in all the glory that is Russia along with their state sponsored news.
There is no doubt and should be no argument about it. de Faustio must be impeached and removed from the mayor's office and that includes his co-mayor wife.
Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen also should resign immediately also. She is heavily complicit and is the engineer for the NYCHA cover-ups involving the sickened children and the budgetary assessments.
De Faustio is just like Stronghead Trump. You wanna know why, because they have committed so many ethical and criminal offenses while holding office that it is hard to keep track and will take years to settle them out until indictments come. Although de Faustio's comeuppance will come sooner, because of his party affiliation. I come to this conclusion because of what just happened to that tech asshole that worked for Debbie Wasserman Shultz who just got indicted (yes, he deserved it).
The majority of the people and the goddamn mainstream corporate news media don't give a shit about the working poor tenants and their children in NYCHA because it's not as much of a cause celebre as what's going on with the human rights violations going on with Trump's zero tolerance immigration policy.
You know the real reason this got ignored for so long while letting kids get sicker and the buildings get more dilapidated is that the HUD commissioner under Obama, I think his name was Castro, obviously was too trusting of Bloomberg then de Blasio that he and his agency did not give a shit because of party affiliation.
Enough with the Trump Derangement Syndrome bullshit too. The only ones that have that psychosomatic disease are the ones projecting it.
Lead poisoning makes them dumb enough to vote for him
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