Those who live or work in Central Harlem have known for weeks that wide swaths of their community had been designated a cluster zone for Legionella — where recent tests revealed the deadly bacteria had turned up in tests of water cooling towers.

What most didn’t know until Thursday was the precise location of buildings, 10 in all, where Legionella was detected in 12 towers amid a breakout of Legionnaires’ disease that as of Friday had claimed four lives and sickened 101 others. The bacteria is spread through water droplets and vapors emanating from the bulky towers, usually found on rooftops

Many Harlemites said Friday the disclosure of the precise locations by the city — more than two weeks after the outbreak came to light — was unforgivably slow and had denied them opportunity to make

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