As a
community-based study of cancer rates in Southeast Queens gets underway, city
officials say a company that sells high-end water filtration systems is
preying on local residents’ fears — and posing as city workers to get
into their homes, and their faucets.
After enduring years of rat infestations
and broken elevators, hundreds of tenants in two Hamilton Heights
apartment buildings last week finally got the message they’d been waiting for
— their homes are theirs, to own.
Infants are more likely to live to be
toddlers today than they were a decade ago, but they’re also more likely to
live in poverty, according to a report released last week.
A DOH report details the cost, in lives and in dollars, of heart disease in New York.
Child care is at the frontline of the TANF reauthorization fight, now in its final stages on Capitol Hill.
The city has scrapped plans to build a strip mall on a parcel of the fragile Jamaica Bay waterfront.
State Attorney General Spitzer is trying to put new legs on an old savings plan: municipal consolidation.
Missing services are part of why Asian American seniors face higher rates of poverty and depression than thier peers.
The public advocate wants to make sure people hear about new streamlined food stamp applications–with media giant Vivendi’s help.
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