'Toxic' dust-up at Midtown apartment building

By DAREH GREGORIAN

Last Updated: 5:53 AM, February 2, 2010

Posted: 4:27 AM, February 1, 2010

Shoddy construction work at a luxury Midtown building left residents with apartments covered in a dust that had higher levels of a carcinogen than what was found at Ground Zero, a report says.<p> </p><br>Crystalline silica, a toxic substance found in mortar, permeated many of the apartments at L'Ecole, at 212 E. 47th St., during the facade work, said Steven Wagner, a lawyer for tenants who are now suing the building.<p> </p><br>Microecologies Inc., an environmental-testing firm, reported finding "highly elevated levels" of the toxin in Steven Rosenhaus' 20th-floor apartment last May, seven months after he says he came home to find it blanketed in dust from the work.<p> </p><br>"It was like there had been a snowfall," said Rosenhaus, a 53-year-old work-at-home consultant who suffered breathing trouble and eye irritation.<p> </p><br>Calls and e-mails to the building's managing agent weren't returned. A rep for Extell, the developer overseeing the construction, did not return calls, nor did the lawyer for the building's ownership group. Building management, in court papers, has denied any wrongdoing.<p> </p><br>
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Thanks Blue Eyes

I'll forward the attorney's name and any additional information that I can find on him for those tenants in Mid-Town to those residing near dump-n-run.

The families in that area are really hurting physically, mentally & financially thanks to doris and her team of CORRUPT self-serving thieves