Residents at 622 East 20th Street in Stuyvesant Town have had unusable tap water for well over a month. Yesterday a resident turned on her water and it came out so polluted, it instantly turned her white washcloth dark brown as pictured. She called management and was told "...you are the only one complaining about brown water." That makes it OK?!?She was also told the DEP was working on the water and said they would blow the line last night. When she called back after still having brown water she was told by management "we will schedule your line to be blown down sometime this week."
On the plus side, slum lord Rob Speyer and his wife, Anne-Cecilie Engell, are enjoying clean water on their honeymoon.
If this isn't a reduction in services and a health threat, I don't know what is! We need the press and the DEP to converge on Stuyvesant Town.
Cold and Miserable,
I guess you are still cold? I have been freezing, but my heat was blasted at 3:45 this morning, to such an extent that it woke me from a sound sleep. (Nothing like going to bed under a down comforter and waking up in a sauna.)
Is this the heating "improvement"? Whatever happened to the idea of just leaving the thermostat on a certain level, providing a STEADY, comfortable temperature? Oh, yeah, I forgot who we're dealing with it. I want to move back in with my parents!
Hi URI, I am not cold today because we actually have heat! However, I was freezing last night and had to put a space heater on in my bedroom (another good reason to check the batteries in the smoke alarm) because we had hardly any heat all day yesterday and none whatsoever during the evening and night. It is so obvious that this heat sensor nonesense is another TishSpy screw-up, but I guess by now we all realize that we are not dealing with intelligence when it comes to our landlord.
If the Brown water is a "city" issue, why do some buildings have clear water and the other side of the building have brown water. All the buildings and all of the apt. lines should have the same brown water in Sty-town yet they don't???
Has anyone checked into anti-siphon valves that "should be" installed on the water irrigation system supply side of potable water?
Very interesting question Stuy Springs.
My water has been running crystal clear. And while I have had brown water on rare occasions, there hasn't been any at all (that I've seen) for a long time.
This Croton aqueduct fish tale doesn't add up at all.