City councilmembers will hear testimony from city health officials for the first time since a deadly Legionnaires’ outbreak in Harlem this summer killed seven people and sickened 114.
Representatives from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and NYC Health and Hospitals are scheduled to answer questions about the outbreak, though officials from Health and Hospitals abruptly canceled their planned attendance at a public land use hearing on Thursday.
The city pinpointed cooling towers at two sites as the origin of the outbreak: Harlem Hospital — where another cooling tower had been linked to a previous outbreak in 2021 — and a construction site for a public health lab owned by the city and managed by the construction firm Skanska USA…