Our Health is worth more then $20 million, and is more important then repainting the Williamsburg Bridge.

After the city stopped sandblasting to remove toxic old lead paint from the Williamsburg Bridge in 1996, because of a lawsuit of outraged residents claiming it posed a health hazard, the contractor filed nine lawsuits alleging breach of contract.

Now the city ended up cutting the check to the bridge contractor, in the city’s largest legal payout this year, bringing the settlement to about $20.2 million.

Brooklyn Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, said “I don’t care how many millions of dollars it cost the city. People’s lives are more important,” he said.