The health department offered five ZIP codes in central Harlem -- 10027, 10030, 10035, 10037, 10039 – that were at the center of the cluster, as officials stressed the disease was airborne and could reach people even outside of the directly affected buildings.

Announcement of the latest death comes just hours after city officials identified 12 cooling towers in 10 Harlem buildings that tested positive for Legionnaires' disease.

The final of 12 affected cooling towers in the Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Harlem was remediated on Friday. All 12 cooling towers in Central Harlem that tested culture positive for live Legionella bacteria have been fully drained,

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.

In the five ZIP codes affected by the outbreak, the number of inspections fell more dramatically than in the rest of the city.

Legionnaires' outbreak in Harlem claims a fourth life, with 99 infected and linked to contaminated water-cooling towers.

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,

A third person has died of the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem that has sickened close to 70 people, Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday — confirming that the source appears to be

Announcement of the latest death comes just hours after city officials identified 12 cooling towers in 10 Harlem buildings that tested positive for Legionnaires' disease.