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New York has closed dozens of hospitals in the last few decades, the result of larger healthcare trends, policy shifts and cost-cutting efforts. But that downsizing has been “called into question” by the coronavirus pandemic, experts say.
Over the past few weeks, advocacy groups, veteran volunteers, and everyday residents across the five boroughs have stepped up to form groups and projects that assist vulnerable New Yorkers.
Thousands of New York City students spend at least two hours in transit to and from school each day, raising questions about how school quality and school distance combine to affect learners.
The city uses a patchwork of social services and subsidies to keep elders aging in place, but they can be difficult to qualify for and their funds are limited.
The CRA, a crucial but flawed tool intended to give communities leverage over banks, is up for reform—and though community advocates have long advocated for substantive changes to the law, they are currently worried about conservative moves to hobble it.
In his State of the City speech, Mayor de Blasio announced a new NYPD Vision Zero Unit to crack down on dangerous driving behavior, like failure to yield. But data shows many drivers who get summonses for that offense face no penalties.
Brokers predicted that the kind of investments the tax incentive could attract would create an entirely new borough. But a year later, the fervor around opportunity zones in the Bronx has shrunk from a clap to a whisper.
Bronx Senator Luis Sepulveda has made headlines for big campaign loan he received from a dentist friend. Turns out he wrote dental legislation soon thereafter.
When Mayor de Blasio in 2017 announced a plan to end the use of hotels as homeless shelters by 2023, there were about 7,500 homeless people in hotel rooms paid for by the city. Today, there are 11,750.
In New York City, the number of fatal opioid overdoses among people ages 55-84 has been increasing for the last four years, reaching 29 percent of the total opioid overdose deaths in 2018.