Nearly 20 years ago, New York City laid out a goal of eradicating childhood lead poisoning here by 2010. Now, with thousands of kids still showing unsafe lead levels per year, the City Council is considering a new package of laws. TimMcNicholas reports.
When 9-year-old Carter Nunez smiles, his mother Sakia Colon cherishes the moment because she's also seen his pain from the challenges of being autistic and non-verbal, and on top of that, he's suffered lead poisoning.
Children can suffer brain damage or stunted development from ingesting paint chips or dust containing lead.But last spring, the city again found hazardous amounts of lead in the apartment after Carter's blood tests showed even higher levels, about 15 times the average amount for a child.
Sanchez is sponsoring a bill that would require landlords who get lead violations to show records proving they've inspected for lead hazards in the past and worked to fix any hazards. "We keep on passing laws, but we don't do the follow-up and the follow-through. Laws are great. They have to be enforced," Frankel said.
In emails, the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development told CBS2 they did issue hundreds of thousands of violations for peeling paint even before 2019 and, between 2004-2018, spent over $42 million trying to fix lead-based paint hazards.When she moved in in 2013, about a year before Carter was born, her landlord was BN Realty Associates.
"Parkash swiftly responded to the May 9, 2022 notice by retaining the same third-party lead abatement company, which performed the curative work from May 19-24. However, the dust-wipe analysis paperwork that would've closed the violation could not be submitted because the tenant inexplicably denied the independent inspector entry to the apartment. It wasn't until last month that the tenant allowed entry to the inspector, who then submitted the paperwork to the Health Dept.
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