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Tenants: Feces Raining From the Wall, Down Stairwell Into Apartments

Tenants at the Ingersoll Houses in Fort Greene say feces raining from the wall and down the stairwell into tenants' apartments is a dire situation -an issue they say has happened before but never this bad. A family tells News 12 they were up at 4 a.

Tenants at the Ingersoll Houses in Fort Greene say feces raining from the wall and down the stairwell into tenants' apartments is a dire situation -an issue they say has happened before but never this bad.

A family tells News 12 they were up at 4 a.m. Tuesday trying to clean up their 61-year-old grandmother's apartment.

News 12 visited multiple apartments in the building and saw feces coming up from the toilet, bathtubs and even coming out of people's ceilings.

They say NYCHA told them the equipment needed to solve the issue was lost in a flood. Water has since been turned off at the houses, but that hasn't done anything to remove the already flooded hallways and apartments.

Tenants at the Ingersoll Houses in Fort Greene say feces raining from the wall and down the stairwell into tenants' apartments is a dire situation -an issue they say has happened before but never this bad.

A family tells News 12 they were up at 4 a.m. Tuesday trying to [...]




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