New York City issued no cooling tower violations in the three ZIP codes covering the Upper East Side during four separate months of this year, City Council Speaker Julie Menin said at an oversight hearing on the outbreak Wednesday, months before a Legionnaires' disease cluster in those same ZIP codes killed 11 people and sickened 94.
Citing reports, Menin said that "the department issued no violations in the three zip codes covering the Upper East Side" in January, March, May and June of this year. She said enforcement surged after July 2, when the outbreak began, but that there was almost no enforcement in the first half of the year.
