These New Yorkers Are Willing To Risk Their Jobs Over COVID-19 Vaccines
For the past decade, Claudia Petrovich has been a technician at Main Street Radiology in Queens and says she loves her job.“The people I work with became like my second family,” she says. “I have a...
View ArticleLonger NYC Commutes, Household Crowding Linked To Higher COVID-19 Rates
Longer commute times and crowded apartments came with higher rates of COVID-19 transmission at the height of the pandemic in New York City, according to a recent study from Cornell University. The...
View ArticleA Brooklyn School Quarantined A Third Of Its Staff, But Parents Weren't Told
A Brooklyn High School was forced to quarantine a third of its staff on the eve of the first day of classes after exposure to a COVID-19-positive colleague at a pair of work events held less than 72...
View ArticleHow This Hudson Valley Town Turned A Defunct Prison Into A Thriving Cannabis...
Just over an hour's drive from New York City, Warwick is one of those Hudson Valley towns perfect for perusing boutiques filled with aromatic candles after a hike to take in the fall foliage. The town...
View ArticleNYC Tried To Remove NYPD From 911 Mental Health Emergencies—But It’s Had...
After launching in parts of Harlem this summer, New York City is planning to expand a pilot program that enables 911 to dispatch teams that are led by social workers to mental health calls instead of...
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New York City allows the nation's 1st supervised consumption sites for...
Updated November 30, 2021 at 3:54 PM ETOfficials in New York City say the first government-approved supervised drug injection sites in the nation began offering services to people with addiction on...
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Why Coney Island and Brighton Beach were hit so hard by omicron
Underneath the Q train, near the intersection of Coney Island and Brighton Beach Avenues, many of the passersby are older and speak in Russian. Last Wednesday, 64-year-old Irina Andreeva was among...
View ArticleWhen Will NJ Get Legal Weed?
New Jersey’s original opening date for recreational sales of cannabis is likely going to get pushed back. Caroline Lewis, reporter for WNYC and the Gothamist, discusses her reporting on what’s behind...
View ArticleNY home care workers awarded $30 million for unpaid wages
For years, New York’s home health aides have been arguing that they have not been fairly compensated for 24-hour shifts. In a landmark decision, an arbitrator ruled Friday that 42 home care staffing...
View ArticleClubhouse for New Yorkers with serious mental illness plans $40 million Bronx...
About 20 or so people piled into Fountain House Bronx on a recent morning, filling the social club’s main hall with a mix of English and Spanish. The members, all of whom must have a mental illness...
View ArticleCannabis equity advocates hail ‘innovative’ approach for recreational weed...
State policy seeking to right the wrongs of the past by prioritizing recreational weed licenses for those with past convictions is a step in the right direction, advocates said this week.New York’s...
View ArticleLocal veterans push back on VA plan to close Brooklyn hospital as part of...
Some veterans in New York City are speaking out against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ proposal to close its medical center in Fort Hamilton at the southern tip of Brooklyn. The agency said...
View ArticleHochul keeps delaying nursing home staffing rules, raising concerns among...
It took years of advocacy and a scandal-ridden pandemic for state lawmakers to pass minimum staffing requirements for New York’s nursing homes last May. But just as those rules were supposed to take...
View ArticleUnlicensed marijuana dispensaries are multiplying in New York City, despite...
On a recent afternoon, a sales associate at Street Lawyer Services, a marijuana dispensary on the Lower East Side, scrolled through the shop’s inventory on a screen as Oliver, a return customer, looked...
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Here's where to buy legal weed in NJ when recreational sales start
Wednesday is America’s unofficial weed holiday, but in an attempt to avoid mass chaos at overrun dispensaries, recreational cannabis sales will start in New Jersey on Thursday, April 21st.Although...
View ArticleChecking In on N.J. Cannabis Sales
Caroline Lewis, reporter for WNYC and Gothamist joins to talk about how the very first weekend of legal recreational cannabis sales in New Jersey went and listeners call to share their stories.
View ArticleNY abortion providers could see influx of out-of-state patients if Roe v....
If the Supreme Court finalizes its leaked draft ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in the coming weeks, New Yorkers will not have to worry about losing their existing...
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