Posted inImpact
Harvey Weinstein Sent Back to Rikers After THE CITY Exposed VIP Treatment
Doctors evaluated the disgraced media mogul and found he had no need to be in Bellevue Hospital.
Health
Posted inHealth
No ‘Forever Chemicals’ Worries for NYC’s Drinking Water — But Environmental Agency Is Making Extra Sure to Be Safe
Levels of 29 PFAS compounds are below detectable levels in the city reservoir network, as tougher standards spur hunt for potential risk sources.
Posted inHealth
Why The Bronx Has No Birth Center
Advocates are struggling to get a holistic maternal care facility eight years after passage of a state law intended to create alternatives to hospital labor and delivery.
Posted inHealth
South Bronx Group Nabs $2M Grant for Diabetes Self-Management Education
The disease disproportionately affects residents in The Bronx, especially in the borough’s southern neighborhoods.
Posted inBudget
Kids ‘Eating More’ Blamed for School Cafeteria Cuts, NYC Budget Boss Says
Jacques Jiha, director of the Office of Management and Budget, offered the surprising explanation at a City Council budget hearing on Monday.
Posted inLabor
Medicare Advantage Feud Looms Over Union Takeover of City Retiree Group
AFSCME seizes control of DC37 Retirees Association, a leader in lawsuits seeking to block the cost-cutting health plan.
Posted inFAQ NYC
LISTEN: Trump’s Trials and NYC’s Plague Year
Hosts Chrissy and Katie discuss the $364 million former President Trump was ordered to pay to New York in a fraud case, as well as his brand-new sneakers and the FBI’s investigation into the FDNY. Plus, there’s a Vital City interview between physician and epidemiologist Jay Varma and Sociologist Erik Klinenberg, author of the newly […]
Posted inFAQ NYC
LISTEN: ‘We Were the Child’s Family, So We Had To Organize the Funeral’
Guest host Richard Kim, THE CITY’s editor in chief, talks to journalists Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner about their Blindspot podcast digging into the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and focusing on overlooked populations including intravenous drug users, incarcerated people, and the pediatric patients separated from their families “who lived and died their entire […]
Posted inBudget
Empty Cases, Hungry Kids: School Cafeteria Cuts Send Shockwaves
The effects of the cuts are spreading beyond school cafeterias. Manufacturers were shocked by New York City’s decision to yank major menu items midyear.
Posted inHealth
Legionnaires’ Disease Kills NYCHA Resident, Puts Brooklyn Public Housing Complex on Alert
The city’s health department urged vulnerable tenants in Brownsville’s Langston Hughes Houses not to shower as it studies a possible cluster of the bacterial illness.