An annual vigil honored the New Yorkers who died on the streets and in shelters while highlighting the lethal impact of chronic homelessness. “We should be clear that these outcomes…
The majority of the city’s designated bike lanes are unprotected: basically nothing more than around thee-feet wide stretches of asphalt marked by strips of paint and an occasional bike lane…
Surveys show people in neighborhoods hit hard by health disparities are full of ideas of how to solve them—at a time when the healthcare system is embracing some experimentation. Will…
For families living in poor neighborhoods, more hospital closings have put greater pressure on the surviving facilities, and they have also stretched the distances people have to travel to receive…
Diabetes and assaults, HIV and asthma, sicken or kill people in low-income areas at higher rates. Often, it isn’t that there’s no method or money to address the problem –…
The question isn’t whether economic alienation and housing pressure are as risky to health as smoking or poor diet. It’s whether the political will is there to do something about…
