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Dangers In City-Run Building: Falling Ceilings, Lead

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A city-run apartment building for homeless families has put a Bronx toddler in danger—twice this week. Five days after Dymond Salgado and her family were forced to leave one apartment in their Grand Concourse building because the two-year-old was suffering from lead poisoning, a ceiling collapsed in their new apartment, covering the child in "debris and plaster teeming with water bugs and centipedes."

"I don't want to stay here another day," her father, Ralph Salgado, told the Daily News. "I can't even protect my own family from the unknown, from the invisible here." The ceiling fell at around 9 a.m., as Dymond played ball with her four-year-old brother Donte. "We were in the living room and I heard, 'Bam!'" said her father. "I froze up at first, and then the yell came, which was my daughter. I ran inside and she was covered with rubble and debris."

Dymond escaped the ceiling collapse—which was reportedly caused by a leaky radiator—with only minor injuries. But she and her brother remain on medication after being exposed to lead in their first apartment at 1410 Grand Concourse, and according to WPIX, Donte has "delayed speech" that his mother attributes to the toxic conditions. City officials say they will re-inspect every apartment in the 35-unit building. The Salgado family has been relocated to a Department of Homeless Services building in Morris Heights.

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  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    Blommberg, what a lousy mayor.

  • Wza

    Homeless families? Bronx? Grand Concourse? Shocked?

  • ProudLiberal1947

    Okay folks I smell republiCANT lets make a deal here.

    Understanding the average New Yorker is pretty sharp and hard to fool this one diffinetly needs to be looked into.

    I suggest first you look at the projected Land Use and sales for the last 15-20 years. Next check the political affilliation, yeah,yeah I know there all crooked but nobody is more crooked then a republiCANT.

    Next check ALL Contractors and SUB Contractors again run this back to Party affilliation.

    That done now start checking the land and CONDO developers and projected future sites, this here is THEFT and engineered from City Hall down.

    If you have any doubts please check Washington D.C., the developers are running rampent in that City, the Kick back is Hugh as they are buying Multi Million Dollar property for Pennies on the dollar and the ruin was Purposely brought on for PROFIT.

    There are a lot of other places to start looking like title searches and who conducted them and when and who are they working for.

    Last but not least get your self a INDEPENDENT Counsel and prosecute the Bastards till they die.

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