Brooklyn
Video: Brooklyn Hospitals Facing Critical Test
Jarrett Murphy |
BK Live takes a look at the challenges facing private and public hospitals in the city’s largest borough.
CityPlate: Food Policy in NYC
Saving NYC’s Food Waste From Both Landfill and Compost
Guglielmo Mattioli |
While composting food waste is better that simply burying it in landfills, both techniques have their costs, and both involve a fundamental failure: The food could have been eaten.
Health and Environment
Seeing Risk to Teens, Some Want a Ban on Alcohol Ads in the Subway
Bob Kirsch |
Seeing a threat to teens and disparities in where the ads appear, some are calling for the MTA to follow Boston’s lead and get ads for wine, beer and booze out of its system.
Health and Environment
Do New York City’s Calorie Counts Actually Make Us Eat Better?
Batya Ungar-Sargon |
The posting of calorie counts at chain restaurants, which New York pioneered, is going national. But it’s unclear that knowing the numbers guides consumers to eat less or healthier.
Bronx
Video: Make a Park Bench Your Gym This Spring
Jarrett Murphy and Lizzie Ford-Madrid |
Two of the young athlete-advocates from the Bronx’s Mary Mitchell Center demonstrate how a simple park bench can be the key to your plan to get in shape—and talk about their broader work to make the Bronx a healthier place.
CityPlate: Food Policy in NYC
Have City Subsidies to Supermarkets Made NYC Healthier?
Batya Ungar-Sargon |
A city program of tax and zoning incentives for new or revamped supermarkets has provided shoppers in several neighborhoods with more options, although its impact on health outcomes is unclear so far.
Health and Environment
NYC Health Commish Highlights Death Disparities
Jarrett Murphy |
Residents of Brownsville die 11 years earlier, on average, than their counterparts in lower Manhattan.
Cuomo
Will New Cuomo Energy Fund Help or Hinder Low-Income New Yorkers?
Jarrett Murphy |
The Clean Energy Fund sets aside millions to bring energy innovations to low-income people. But advocates are skeptical that market-based solutions can be made to work for those with less to spend.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
City Council Members Move to Improve Tampon Access
Gotham Gazette |
The proposed legislation would make them readily available for free in public schools, shelters, and correctional facilities across New York City. It’d also support an ongoing effort to eliminate taxes on such products.
Green Jobs Gone Missing
Video: Inside a Green-Jobs Training Program
Olivia Leach |
Go inside the classroom and hear from an instructor who’s helping to train the new green workforce.
