A residential meeting was expected to be held Sunday afternoon after dangerous levels of arsenic were found in the tap water at a NYCHA complex in the East Village.
More than 2,500 people living at the NYCHA complex have been told not to drink or cook with water from their taps."To cook or to drink, if they keep giving us water, that will be good," said Josefina Reyes.
The mayor's office says NYCHA started testing the water last month at the Lower East Side complex after reports of the water looking unusual - that is when they discovered the high levels of arsenic. They said while there does not seem to be a connection between arsenic and cloudy water, it has since taken action to provide safe water while doing more testing to find the source.
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