A rough survey of the offerings around high schools in a high-obesity area of the Bronx suggests a critical barrier to improving teen health: the unhealthy food that is cheap and nearby when the final bell rings.
The perception is that yoga is for middle-class white women—and statistics indicate that’s the reality, too. But both are changing in one Bronx neighborhood.
One hospital got tired of treating gunshot wounds and not the conflict that causes them. So it tried a new approach.
Synonymous with crime and blight, the borough is a place of innocence and inspiration in a new peoples’ memoir. Read an excerpt.
Ruben Diaz, Jr. believes new affordable housing must serve people with relatively high incomes—not to attract that crowd, but to keep them from leaving.
An otherwise successful city program hasn’t been able to get one Bronx landlord to get a troubled building back into acceptable shape.
This paid internship is supported by the Simon Bolivar Foundation.
Creating sustainable, thriving communities is about more than buildings. Without access to cultural resources—from libraries and bookstores, to museums and galleries, to concert halls—we cannot create healthy neighborhoods.
A newly elected Assemblywoman says Albany needs to do more to shore up a struggling emergency food system in the Bronx and elsewhere in the Empire State.
State Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr., a Democrat, faces no Republican opposition in his re-election campaign—because he’s the Republican candidate, too. Does that reflect his constituents’ sentiment, or deny them a chance to express it?
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