'They need to come down' McBride says of Trenton Kingsbury Towers after air condition out for days
TRENTON — Hell has better accommodations.
Residents of the city's Kingsbury Towers endured scorching heat the last three days while air conditioning was out at the notoriously troubled high-rise.
Moms huddled outside with their kids Thursday afternoon, some in canopied strollers to protect them from the sun, as oven-baking temperatures soared inside the towers, residents said.
City leaders called for state officials to intervene before there’s another tragedy at the towers, which have been subject of intense scrutiny the past few years.
“It’s a Band-Aid operation,” Marge Caldwell-Wilson, the councilwoman of the North Ward and a former member of the tower’s board of trustees, said of the complex.
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