Health and Environment
What Would Make Your Bronx Park Healthier?
Jarrett Murphy |
An upcoming march has Crotona youth thinking about how to make the parks a better tool for health in a statistically unhealthy neighborhood.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
Long Before Today's Ebola Scare, City Fended Off Smallpox
Jarrett Murphy |
A small 1947 outbreak was halted when the city vaccinated 600,000 in a week and at least 2.5 million overall.
Health and Environment
Huge Surveys Seek to Understand the Soil and Spirit of City’s Parks
Jarrett Murphy |
Two ambitious, two-year projects are underway to understand the ecological state of the forests and wetlands in the city’s park system—and grasp what those spots mean to the New Yorkers who use them.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Australia's Gun-Control Lesson for NYers
Gerard May |
Mass shootings are happening more often in the U.S., but tighter national gun control seems impossible to achieve. An Australian in New York recounts his country’s response to a massacre.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
In Wheelchairs, They Marched to Stop Climate Change
Sarah Mortimer |
The dangers associated with floodwaters and power outages that come with storms like Sandy are magnified when you use a wheelchair or breathe through a ventilator.
Health and Environment
NYC's Superfund Neighborhoods Are Booming
Emma Turetsky |
In the past five years, three toxic city sites have been enrolled in a federal clean-up program. Early on there were fears the label would inhibit development. Those have proven unfounded.
Health and Environment
Take a Video Visit to the Superfund Site Near You!
Jarrett Murphy |
Beauty and toxins, industry and wildlife mix in Newtown Creek, along the Gowanus Canal and near the old Wolff-Alport Chemical Company on the Brooklyn-Queens border.
Health and Environment
Dig Deep Into Superfund New York
Jarrett Murphy |
Archive articles, federal documents, slideshows and more on the three Superfund cleanups now underway in New York.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
Take a Video Visit to the Superfund Site Near You!
Jarrett Murphy |
Beauty and toxins, industry and wildlife mix in Newtown Creek, along the Gowanus Canal and near the old Wolff-Alport Chemical Company on the Brooklyn-Queens border.
Health and Environment
A Postmortem of NYC’ ‘Undetermined’ Fatalities
Jarrett Murphy |
Each year, nearly 200 deaths in New York City are categorized as “events of undetermined intent.” These are cases in which the city’s medical examiner cannot determine whether the person died of natural causes, accident, suicide or murder.
