Park-goers adjust to new syringe disposal boxes
Some South Bronx residents consider the city’s plan to install syringe disposal boxes in their parks a mixed bag. They know something must be done, but not everyone is sure this is the right approach.
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City shoots for safe injection site in Longwood
A prominent Mott Haven business booster agrees that Longwood is a bad place to put the site, and has a suggestion for the mayor: Put it in The Hub.
South Bronx is new home for some hurricane victims
People displaced by extreme weather events caused by climate change have no legal protections, said an attorney at the Sabin Center for Climate Law. In contrast, the captains of industry whose businesses, environmental experts argue, are at the root of these catastrophes in the first place, receive every possible break.
Ad campaign helps bodegas promote healthy food
The coalition’s goal is to prevent obesity and diabetes, two familiar scourges in the neighborhood.
Ground Zero: Health care professionals scramble to keep up with drug epidemic
As the eyes of the nation turn to a troubling wave of opioid addiction in rural and suburban communities, residents of the South Bronx are asking what took them so long.
An antidote in heavy demand
I was assigned to cover heroin use in Mott Haven. As a reporter I’m responsible for learning the ins and outs of the “beat,” the neighborhood and the people that call it home.
Heroin takes a heavy toll locally
According to one officer, hand-to-hand business is vintage, and the “dead drop”—leaving money in one place and drugs in another separately, is the present—and the future.
Clinic prepares public for fight against overdoses
Last year, more people died from drug overdoses in the Bronx, the fourth most populous of New York’s five boroughs, than in any other.