The city's lead law, passed in 2003, requires landlords to inspect any pre-1960 apartment where children live for lead and fix the problem if any is found. As more young families move to aging Brooklyn brownstones, more landlords are facing the $10,000 repair fees for taking care of lead in apartments. New York Mag finds that neither landlords nor tenants are happy about this! But on the plus side, the city's lead poisoning rate has fallen by 92 percent since 1995. [NYM]
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