13 Upstate New York Towns With Third World Living Conditions
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Calling any part of New York "third world" sounds like an exaggeration. But in 2010, the United Nations declared safe water and sanitation human rights. So why have so many upstate New York towns spent years without them?
There's a city whose only grocery store closed with seven weeks' notice. There's a hamlet whose hospital no longer has a single bed. There's a college village under its ninth boil-water order in about three years, and an apartment complex where tenants went three months without heat. And at number one, there's the village where one man's kitchen tap tested at 135 times today's federal limit for a toxic chemical.
13 towns, based on state and federal records, court filings, and Census data.
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13 Upstate New York Towns With Third World Living Conditions
Hidden America With Marc
6,403 views
Calling any part of New York "third world" sounds like an exaggeration. But in 2010, the United Nations declared safe water and sanitation human rights. So why have so many upstate New York towns spent years without them?
There's a city whose only grocery store closed with seven weeks' notice. There's a hamlet whose hospital no longer has a single bed. There's a college village under its ninth boil-water order in about three years, and an apartment complex where tenants went three months without heat. And at number one, there's the village where one man's kitchen tap tested at 135 times today's federal limit for a toxic chemical.
13 towns, based on state and federal records, court filings, and Census data.
#UpstateNewYork #NewYork #HiddenAmerica #SmallTownAmerica #WaterCrisis #HoosickFalls #ForeverChemicals #RustBelt #NewYorkHistory #AmericanTowns