Species like oaks and sweetgums, which make up a large share of the city’s treescape, emit a chemical that generates a toxic gas when it comes into contact with fossil fuel pollution, researchers say.
NYC Health + Hospitals says it’s found permanent homes for more than 1,200 of its patients and their families, both through supportive housing placements and in affordable apartments on its own land. The marker comes as the mayor directs all city agencies to examine their property holdings for places to build new housing.
New Yorkers are taking notice as the city’s aging subway system battles with more downpours and the threat of Sandy-like floods.
“How do we keep people safe from extreme heat in an age of ever-increasing temperatures? One solution may be right in front of us: we need to plant more trees in the most heat-vulnerable areas and take better care of the ones we’ve got.”
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
The rate increase, National Grid argues, is necessary for maintaining service as safe and reliable for customers. But environmentalists question adding gas hookups and revamping the system when New York is supposed to be phasing out polluting fossil fuels, as mandated by the state’s landmark climate law.
Si bien los expertos advirtieron de que las bajas cifras de 2020 debían tomarse con cautela —probablemente debido a un subconteo por la pandemia, y en contraste con un descenso a largo plazo de nuevos casos—, la tendencia al alza en 2021 y 2022 ha causado alarma entre investigadores del VIH y defensores. NYC Council/John McCartenUna rueda de prensa en 2019 frente a la alcaldía sobre la sensibilización sobre el sida en la comunidad latina. Este artículo se publicó originalmente en inglés el 29 de julio. Traducido por Daniel Parra. Read the English version here.
While experts cautioned that the low numbers in 2020 should be taken with a grain of salt—likely an undercount due to the pandemic, and at odds with a longer term decline in new cases—the upward trend in 2021 and 2022 has caused alarm among HIV researchers and advocates.
“Before adding an energy consumption mandate with indeterminate costs and unknown impacts on the environment, infrastructure and affordable housing market, there should be a cool-down period for the city, state and federal government to study how—and even if—this can be achieved.”
New York City firefighters responded to more gas leaks than any other city in the nation, a new study found.
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