Government
Firefighters' Heart Risks Get New Attention
Jarrett Murphy |
Heart attacks are the single largest threat to firefighters’ lives, with everything from stress to heat to noise at fire scenes elevating the risk factors.
Staten Island
Costly Lessons: What We've Learned From Firefighter Deaths
Jarrett Murphy |
A City Limits investigation looked at FDNY fatalities over 20 years, finding common factors and tracking the city’s efforts to address them.
Government
Can a Year-Round Coney Island Succeed?
Neil deMause |
After seven years of legal wrangling, hundreds of millions of dollars in city expense, and the eviction of many of Coney Island’s historic amusement operators, the island is still seasonal.
Economy
Violent Crime Wave: Is It The Heat? Is It A Wave?
Jarrett Murphy |
The murder rate went up this summer. What’s behind the increase in violence?
Bronx
Asthma In New York: Old News, New Battles
Rachel Stern |
Fights over congestion pricing and the city’s sanitation strategy have receded from the headlines. But in North Brooklyn, worry is still in the air.
Heat Wave
BAD AIR DAYS: STUDY LINKS CITY ASTHMA TO OZONE
City Limits |
A new study finds that asthma attacks in New York City can be triggered by pollution.
