This is a real problem, a search of city records showed several such contracts have been awarded for a total of $63 million since 2016 alone. “Whenever we find a bird in the tank, 9 times out of 10, it’s NYCHA,” said a tank company employee in 2014 Several other tenants in the building said they had similar experience with brown water.
| Tenants | Complaints | Building |
|---|---|---|
| 178,895 apartments | 75,873 | Lexington |
| 178,895 apartments | 3,713 | Martin Luther King Jr |
| 178,895 apartments | 145,740 | Douglass I & Douglass II |
| 178,895 apartments | 95,437 | Drew-Hamilton |