Speaker Menin Criticizes Mamdani Administration's Response to Legionnaires'
Council leaders want a hotline, stricter tower oversight and more public guidance after the outbreak sickened at least 76 people and killed four.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani hits back at NYC Council Speaker Menin’s charge of mishandling Legionnaires’ outbreak
NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani hit back against City Council Speaker Menin’s attacks over his administration’s handling of the Legionnaires’ outbreak — saying he was putting public health over politics. Menin has criticized the mayor for not ordering more…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani hits back at NYC Council Speaker Menin's charge of mishandling Legionnaires' outbreak
NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani hit back against City Council Speaker Menin’s attacks over his administration’s handling of the Legionnaires’ outbreak — saying he was putting public health over politics. Menin has criticized the mayor ...
POLITICS: How Mamdani’s minions failed New York in deadly Legionnaires’
Last year, soon after a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem infected 118 New Yorkers and claimed seven lives, the City Council took action. We voted to triple the frequency of required testing for Legionella in building cooling towers, increasing it from quarterly to monthly, because we believed that this city owes New Yorkers better protection. Less than a year later, another outbreak has swept through Manhattan’s densely populated Upper …
NYC Council to weigh Legionnaires' hotline, other responses to UES outbreak
Julie Menin, speaker of the New York City Council, at a Memorial Day ceremony May 26, 2026, at Intrepid Museum. The City Council speaker called the Mamdani administration's response to the outbreak "insufficient." [ more › ]
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