Health & Environment
Health & Environment in New York
Hospitals, heat, flooding, air quality, and the long resilience fight, plus the health stories that hit neighborhoods unevenly. The science under the headline, with the source named, never a brand’s press release.
Desks we analyze here: STAT News, amNewYork (Health), Grist.
Health & Environment, explained
The questions New Yorkers actually ask.
Where do you go for care if you can’t afford it here?
NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public health system in the country, runs the safety-net hospitals and clinics that treat anyone regardless of ability to pay or immigration status. It is chronically underfunded and politically fought over, which is why its budget is a story that keeps coming back.
Why does New York flood so badly now?
A mix of more intense rainfall and a drainage system built for a different century. Low-lying, often outer-borough blocks take the worst of it, and the long fight over coastal resiliency and the state climate law is really about who gets protected and who pays for it.
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