The contaminants in Hudson River waters include PCBs, mercury, cadmium, various insecticides, and dioxins and furans – which can come from incinerator smoke and car exhaust.
As the next round of charter revision hearings looms, Borough President Scott Stringer has issued a comprehensive to-do list for the panel reviewing the city’s constitution.
Almost three quarters of the 2,422 women in New York state prisons are mothers. In Part 3 of a series, several moms take a crucial step toward going home.
The state’s high court allowed foster children to pursue claims that they were denied services and boosted a case challenging the state’s indigent defense system.
