The report offers a detailed—but still preliminary—look at whether the city needs massive tidal barriers, or other measures, to protect against storm surge and ‘wave attack’ as sea levels rise.
ethnicity
In NYC and Around the Country, Racial Skew Hampers Trials for New Medicines and Treatments
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Adine Usher was diagnosed with breast cancer. She felt upset and worried. Following her surgery, when she had to find a cancer specialist, she learned about a doctor who was conducting a study using the newest cancer medicines. The doctor she found enrolled her in a clinical trial. Now healthy and doing well, she credits the trial with having saved her life.
Albany
NY Support Lags for Sickle-Cell Patients Facing Pain, Poor Treatment, Discrimination
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It’s a disease that causes tremendous pain and disproportionately affects Blacks. Its patients have trouble finding doctors to treat them and insurance to cover that treatment, and are sometimes mistaken for opioid addicts. Could the state be doing more?
climate change
New York’s Sewer Overflows Could be Contributing to Climate Change
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Research suggests that pollutants from untreated sewage reduce the capacity of local wetlands to absorb carbon and mitigate the impact of greenhouse gases.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
In Memoriam: Luis Garden Acosta, Builder of Bridges
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The names of the city’s real builders, who labor for decades in the toughest neighborhoods, are nowhere. Their accomplishments, everywhere. One of the greatest of these, Luis Garden Acosta, died last week at the age of 73.
Investigations
Amid Debate Over Designated Injection Sites, Dwindling ‘Safe’ Options for NYC’s Opioid Users
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A nonprofit that provides clean shooting supplies was evicted from its offices late last year. That deprived its clients of a warm place to visit, and a place where someone would notice if they overdosed in the bathroom.
BRONX BUREAU
Bronx Hospital Faced Potential Federal Sanctions After Multiple Suicides in 2016 and 2017
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Montefiore Medical Center appears to have fought off a threatened loss of federal funding after multiple suicide attempts, several successful, during a two-year period. But the hospital wouldn’t answer detailed questions about whether problems identified by federal inspectors have all been corrected.
barge
De Blasio’s Freight NYC Plan Spurs Optimism, Concerns
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Will building up the city’s barge ports it really get big trucks off the interstates? Will it do so without putting more diesel trucks on Brooklyn streets?
HEALTH and ENVIRONMENT
Planners Looking 25 Years Ahead Say NYC’s Climate and Transit Crises are Increasingly Urgent
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There have only been four regional plans. That’s because each plan—years in the making—is intended to shape policy for decades. But authors see growing need for immediate action on climate and transit.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
Neighbors Monitoring New Development at Tainted Factory Site
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Some in Greenpoint are reassured by the plans put forward by the developer of the former NuHart and Company vinyl and plastics factory, but other neighbors remain wary.
Age Justice
Do NYC’s Seniors Need More Mental Health First Aid?
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The city offers a menu of mental-health services for seniors. But funding and services are uneven at the city’s senior centers and neighborhood resources can determine what mental-health care seniors receive.