The bustling Metropolitan Museum of Art and several pricey Manhattan prep schools are among dozens of new buildings to test positive for the bacteria behind the growing Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on the Upper East Side.
The buildings are among 76 that the New York City Health Department has ordered to thoroughly clean and disinfect their cooling towers after they tested positive for Legionella bacteria, as the outbreak has sickened 63 people and counting.
The Met, along with 19 other properties, has been ordered to remediate its tainted water-cooling towers by Thursday, New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Alister F. Martin said in a statement Tuesday.
Multiple posh Upper East Side private schools have also been ordered to remediate their bacteria-infested cooling towers, including the all-girls Chapin School at 100 East End Ave., whose tuition boasts a hefty $68,250 price tag per year…