When we have heard from city officials, they have been low level people who called to tell us they don’t have access to information. Rather than working with us, New York City Department of Health officials have refused to provide us with any information. “Since we first learned about the potential that our clients may have contracted Legionnaires’ disease at our hotel, we have cooperated fully with public health officials and taken proactive steps to cure any problems. The following is the statement released from The Opera House Hotel:īronx, NY…The Opera House Hotel today issued the following statement by Glenn Isaacs, Vice President of The Empire Hotel Group. The words released by The Opera House Hotel are that of the community when it comes to city and state officials, specifically those at the respective Department of Health offices not providing sufficient information on the ongoing health crisis in The South Bronx. In many stories in the media, The Opera House Hotel has been cited as one of the epicenters of this outbreak but the hotel has broken its silence issued harsh words to government officials.
The Opera House Hotel also claims that NYC DOH has yet to tell the hotel that their water cooler tested positive. “The next one did the same thing.The Opera House Hotel in Melrose, The South Bronx, one of the sites identified as having had a Legionella contaminated cooling tower in New York City’s largest outbreak of Legionnaires’ in city history, issued a statement today which slams New York City Department of Health due to officials who, “…have refused to provide us with any information.”
“I told him the address and he just said no and sped off,” he said. Redding, who had come to New York with his girlfriend, a lawyer who was teaching at a conference in the Bronx.Īround 2:30 a.m., he said, he hailed a cab after a night out in Harlem. “That happened to us just last night,” said Mr. Which is good, given that a cab won’t necessarily take you there. “There’s tons of people getting off the train at 1:30 in the morning,” he said. Bolton, 53, said he had taken the subway to the hotel well after midnight several times on his last visit and found the Hub bustling enough to feel safe. A dollar bought a bunch of organic Chiquitas. Passing vendors hawk goods: a woman selling dollar soaps and deodorants, two for $5, from a bag on her shoulder a scrawny man pushing a stroller crammed with random objects and topped with a box of fruits and vegetables. Around the corner, rolls of concertina wire quietly signal the presence of a juvenile detention center.
Across Brook Avenue is a Peruvian restaurant, a steamed fish place and 99-Cent Papa, that rare discount store that sells fresh meat.
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