There are 788 playgrounds in New York City Housing Authority's (NYCHA) developments. According to a new audit by City Comptroller Scott Stringer, many are unsafe.

"Nearly 1 in 10 playgrounds pose a direct threat to our kids," he said at a press conference Wednesday.

Stringer said his auditors inspected all 788 NYCHA playgrounds over 17 months and found that 70 percent of them were in dangerous or unsatisfactory condition. 72 of the playgrounds were in especially bad shape, posing an imminent danger to children.

But Stringer said NYCHA often whitewashed the problem, filing inspection reports that made no mention of dangerous conditions, or lacked the required supervisory review. Many times, no reports were filed at all.

For example, the audit documented a broken piece of play equipment at the Riis Houses on the Lower East Side. It was fixed by the time NY1 visited Wednesday, but twins Kiara and Tiara Jones, who grew up in the complex, said the playground problems are longstanding.

"Me and my sister used to play here all the time, but it's really old now, it's rusted," Kiara Jones said near the playground.

"The safety — I think, the conditions are really bad, and they should, like, update them," Tiara Jones said.

The audit found exposed jagged metal edges, broken play equipment, damaged surfaces, and more.

NYCHA said it addressed many of the worst conditions documented by the audit, but Stringer is demanding that NYCHA re-inspect all playgrounds and remedy outstanding problems immediately.

"I am furious that we are sending 100,000 kids into playgrounds that we know are not safe," said Comptroller Scott Stringer. "Here is the evidence, here is the audit that we did, and I am calling on NYCHA right now to drop everything they're doing and you make sure that as the weather turns, that our children are safe."

NYCHA said it had an external auditor review all its playgrounds and will address any hazards within 90 days.

But after a winter plagued by faulty boilers that left many apartments without heat, and the head of NYCHA certifying that lead paint inspections had been conducted in units over a four-year period, even though they had not, some residents said they do not believe NYCHA's pledge of a quick playground fix.

"They slack around, they're just very lazy," Kiara Jones said.

One more frustration for NYCHA residents, after a winter of discontent.