As part of Community Board 8's efforts to keep you updated on the Legionnaires' Disease outbreak in our community, we are writing to share this press release from the Health Department identifying 32 cooling towers with positive results for Legionella bacteria and outlining the steps to clean and disinfect all the affected towers.

As of Wednesday, July 8, 2026, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene continues to investigate a cluster of Legionnaires' Disease cases in Yorkville and Carnegie Hill, covering ZIP codes 10075, 10028, and 10128, as well as the east side of Central Park between 76th and 97th Streets.

On Thursday, June 18, there will be ticker-tape parade in Lower Manhattan to celebrate the recent victory of the New York Knickerbockers. More information on how to attend, as well as closures and transit changes, is available at nyc.gov/knicks.

Community Board 8 is hiring a Community Associate to join our dynamic team of municipal government geeks. If you're someone who loves delivering great service for New Yorkers, bringing creative problem solving to government, and learning about how New York City works, this is the place for you.

It's spring! Color is returning to Central Park, flowers are blooming on Park Avenue, baseball is back, and the Department of Transportation is gearing up to resurface 1,150 lane miles of streets across the city, including here on the Upper East Side.

From the Department of Transportation:
Milling is the process of grinding off the top layer of asphalt or surface of a roadway.

Community Board 8 Manhattan (CB8M), which represents the Upper East Side of Manhattan and Roosevelt Island, is seeking a graphic artist to create a logo for the Board. That design will appear on the Board’s website, as well as on materials that publicize the Board’s activities.

When serious winter weather is in the forecast, your city government and its partners have plans in place to manage snow and keep the city safe and functional. Community Board 8 has compiled this information to help you understand what to expect from municipal services and how you can be a good neighbor when snow starts falling.

The Department of Transportation will continue the replacement of the Queensboro Bridge upper deck with nighttime, single lane closures in each direction as per the schedule below until Saturday, November 26th. These lane closures are restricted to the nighttime, however, there will be single-lane, rolling closures in the daytime to drop off material as required.

Rat Academy 10.24 NYC Council Member Keith Powers