The deadly Legionnaires’ outbreak gripping Harlem has city officials in hot water — as locals accused them Friday of dropping the ball on life-saving inspections and needlessly slow-walking revealing exactly where the disease hit.

Harlem Hospital Center and a public health clinic are among the buildings with cooling towers that tested positive for Legionella, the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease, during an outbreak in Harlem,

NEW YORK -- A fourth person has died in connection with a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City, health officials disclosed Thursday as they revealed that some cooling towers that tested positive for the bacteria are in city-run buildings.

Eight 375ft-tall cooling towers crashed to the ground yesterday in the largest simultaneous demolition of its kind. Hundreds of people watched the structures’ tumble at Cottam Power Station in

Spanning Cottam and two other former power stations, plans could deliver 6,800 homes, 15,500 jobs, and £930m in economic growth