Digna Torres

Built World

Staying in her apartment, waiting for cleaning

NYCHA says it has removed the asbestos that a steam leak spread across the exterior walls of two Marcy Houses buildings in Brooklyn, and that air tests inside affected apartments and at a daycare came back negative. Cleanup crews are still working around the buildings in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and four households are staying in hotels the authority is paying for.

Updated Oct 31