After a second resident in the Cheroke Apartments in Yorkville neighborhood tested positive for Legionnaire’s disease recently, city officials are probing the building’s plumbing system.

26 Jan 2026 | 07:38

Two people who are residents of the Cheroke Apartments in Yorkville tested positive for Legionnaires disease within the past 12 months prompting a health department investigation after the second person was diagnosed.

A deadly outbreak of the respiratory illness in Harlem last summer killed seven people....