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Days after Thanksgiving in 2019, Mark Prescott and his mother, Barbara, were forced to evacuate their house after a raw sewage flood made it uninhabitable.
Their home was one of 127 in South Ozone Park, Queens, to be immersed in rivers of raw sewage. The Prescotts moved into a motel, while other families slept in cars. And some lost most of their possessions.
Raw Sewage Flooded Their Homes. Theyâre Still Waiting for Help.
New York City accepted responsibility for a collapsed pipe that flooded 127 homes in Queens in 2019, but it has been slow to pay homeowners. âThis is a problem of environmental racism,â an expert said.
Janice Harmon joined a lawsuit against New York City over raw sewage. âItâs like someone spitting in your face,â she said.Credit.Jackie Molloy for The New York Times
April 15, 2021Updated 9:02 a.m. ET
In a Queens neighborhood near John F. Kennedy Airport, many middle-class families of color have found something that eludes most New Yorkers: homeownership.