Mayor Eric Adams made the announcement Friday at Ronald McNair School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn — a neighborhood with above average asthma cases.
“No more burning dirty fuel, no more contributing to asthma,” Adams said.
“The system is electric heating now. So it eliminates all the soot pollution that would be caused by the combustion, the burning of that fossil fuel,” said Kizzy Charles-Guzman, from the Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice.
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