A UN employee and his spouse are suing Roosevelt Island's Rivercross Terrace and others for negligence, claiming nobody informed them that a transformer was on the opposite facet of their bed room wall.
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A United Nations employee claims he got here down with most cancers after residing subsequent to a radiation-spewing electrical transformer outdoors his Roosevelt Island house, in keeping with a lawsuit.
Dragan Micic, 48, and spouse Lidija Bubanja are suing Rivercross Terrace and others for negligence, claiming nobody informed them after they purchased their dwelling at 531 Fundamental St. that the transformer was on the opposite facet of their bed room wall.
“For the subsequent 17 months, [the couple] slept lower than one foot away from the transformer and their higher our bodies, extra particularly their heads and necks have been uncovered for six to 10 hours a day to ranges of radiation that exceeded beneficial requirements,” in keeping with the Manhattan Supreme Court docket litigation.
Micic, who works for the UN Workplace for Undertaking Companies, says he developed Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma and tumors in his nasal passage and ocular area, the expansion of which was accelerated due to his “fixed day by day publicity” to the transformer, he stated in authorized papers.
The couple, who's searching for unspecified damages, have been pressured to promote the house at a loss and now reside in Westchester.
A supervisor for the co-op declined remark.
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