DAUGHTER PAYS A PRICE

Speech therapists used to come e

to Javonne Carl’s apartment in the

Smith Houses to work with her 8-year-old daughter, Janae, who has s special needs.

“They don’t come me (now) because of the mold,” said Carl, 41.

But she gets other visitors, thanks to sewage backups that she believes helps the spread of mold: “Maggots, roaches, mosquito infestation.”

Carl said she’s joined an ongoing lawsuit to force NYCHA to fix plumbing problems at the 61-year-old lower Manhattan development, named for Alfred E. Smith, the former New York governor and first Catholic presidential candidate.

“The plumbing,” she said, “is awful.”