New York Daily News

UNFINISHED JOB, PROBLEMS BREATHING

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When a hot water leak from the apartment above turned her bathroom walls and ceiling black from mold, Sandra Rosado complained for nearly two years before NYCHA came to fix it.

In May, plumbers broke open her bathroom walls and stopped the leak. But so far, they haven’t returned to close up the walls, said Rosado, 51, who’s lived in the Castle Hill ill

Houses in the Bronx since she was 6. Now, Rosado said, spiders, mice and roaches crawl out from the gaping holes.

“Every day I take a shower I have . . . plaster, cement falling on my head,” she said. “I’ve never had problems breathing until now. Now I can’t walk two blocks. I have to stop.”

A neighbor taped up the holes to keep the critters and debris at bay. On Nov. 25, NYCHA workers came to “inspect” the damage, but didn’t make any repairs, she said.

Her next appointmen­t isn’t until March.

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