Rainwater left untreated in cooling towers atop city-owned Harlem Hospital fueled the Big Apple’s deadliest Legionnaire’s disease outbreak in a decade, the Rev. Al Sharpton charged Tuesday.

A Harlem man sickened in the recent Legionnaires’ outbreak is planning to sue New York City Health + Hospitals for $1 million, according to his lawyer.  Lawyer Ronald

Two construction workers who claim they contracted Legionnaires' disease while working at or near Harlem Hospital Center are suing contractors they allege failed to safeguard water cooling towers at the building against contamination by the bacteria that causes the illness.

Ninety-two people have been diagnosed with Legionnaire's disease since July 25 when the cluster of cases was first identified in Central Harlem, according to the latest numbers from the New York City Health Department.

Eight 375ft-tall cooling towers crashed to the ground yesterday in the largest simultaneous demolition of its kind. Hundreds of people watched the structures’ tumble at Cottam Power Station in