- NYCHA nightmare: More than 800 kids tainted by lead, de Blasio administration finally concedes – New York Daily News, June 30, 2018
- Missing water tank reports at many NYC hospitals – City & State, June 18, 2018
- NYC Styrofoam Ban Begins January 2019: Mayor – metro New York, June 13, 2018
- New York City Doesn’t Have a Comprehensive Plan; Does It Need One? – Gotham Gazette, May 16, 2018
- NYCHA exec admits dangerous lead inspection deadline missed – New York Post, May 16, 2018
- Cuomo Announces Bill to Ban Plastic Bags in New York State – New York Times, April 23, 2018
- City finds 83% of NYCHA units pose ‘severe’ health risks – New York Daily News, April 2, 2018
- Bronx Groups: Plan to Scrap the Sheridan Could Create a New Injustice – City Limits, March 27, 2018
- City Downsizes Plan For UES Marine Transfer Station – Harlem Patch, March 15, 2018
- Judge denies NYCHA tenants’ request for monitor on lead paint – New York Daily News, March 9, 2018
- Big Data Suggests Big Potential for Urban Farming – City lab, February 15, 2018
- State’s health department now investigating lead paint in city public housing – NY 1, February 13, 2018
- Local Nonprofit Finds Evidence of Pathogens in Bronx River – NYC Lens, February 12, 2018
- Rats in the Hallway – The Indypendent, February 5, 2018
- The Curse of ‘Green Gentrification’ – Nexus Media, January 25, 2018
- Brownfield Cleanup Program Application and Draft Investigation Plan for Site at 3rd Ave. and E. 125th St., Manhattan – NYC DEC, January 18, 2018
- City Hall announces free blood-lead tests for kids living in public housing – New York Daily News, December 15, 2017
- NYCHA finds potential lead paint hazards in 81 percent of apartments inspected in 2017 – NY 1, December 14, 2017
- Painted into a corner at NYCHA – New York Daily News, December 7, 2017
- Public Advocate Letitia James starts her own probe into NYCHA’s lead paint scandal – New York Daily News, November 28, 2017
- Embarrassed NYCHA will break locks to remove toxic lead paint after failing to inspect thousands of homes – New York Daily News, November 27, 2017
- NYCHA tenant and mom of boy with high blood-lead levels furious Mayor de Blasio concealed violations – New York Daily News, November 22, 2017
- Mayor de Blasio knew NYCHA had been failing to perform lead-paint inspections for over a year – New York Daily News, November 19, 2017
- NYCHA falsely claimed it did lead paint inspections at thousands of city apartments – New York Daily News, November 14, 2017
- Is NYC Ready For The Next Hurricane Sandy? – Gothamist, October 26, 2017
- Community Group Boosts East Harlem’s Disaster Readiness – The Uptowner, October 19, 2017
- Hurricane Maria causes worry among local Puerto Rican community – WPIX, September 20, 2017
- New Yorkers fear for safety of family members affected by earthquake in Mexico – New York Daily News, September 19, 2017
- Regular floods of raw sewage plague homeless shelter locker rooms on Wards Island – New York Daily News, August 17, 2017
- NYCHA lied about inspecting thousands of homes for toxic lead paint, federal probe finds – New York Daily News, July 27, 2017
- Cancer-causing compounds overflowing in New York tap water – metro New York, July 26, 2017
- City Anti-Rat Initiative Will Forbid Leaving Trash on Curb Overnight – DNAinfo, July 12, 2017
- 24 Lenox Hill Cooling Towers Had Traces of Legionella Bacteria – DNAinfo, July 11, 2017
- 2nd NYPD Officer From East Harlem Precinct Contracts Legionnaires’ Disease – DNAinfo, June 23, 2017
- Second East Harlem NYPD cop diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease – New York Daily News, June 23, 2017
- Legionnaires’ Disease Bacteria Found at Harlem NYPD Precinct, Officials Say – DNAinfo, June 12, 2017
- Bacteria Behind Legionnaires’ Disease Found at New York Police Station – New York Times, June 11, 2017
- Legionella Traces Found in East Harlem Police Precinct Water Samples – NY1, June 11, 2017
- East Harlem NYPD stationhouse tainted with traces of Legionnaires’ disease, cop hospitalized – New York Daily News, June 10, 2017
- NYPD Investigating Possible Legionnaire’s Scare At Precinct In East Harlem – CBS, June 10, 2017
- Proposed East Harlem Sanitation Depot Stirs Question of Fairness – Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2017
- New York City Reinstates Styrofoam Ban – WNYC, May 12, 2017
- Déjà Vu: Debate Over Foam Food Containers Returns To NYC Council – Huffington Post, May 5, 2017
- NYCHA Hopes New Tools Can Help Them Bust Mold in Apartments, but Residents Slam Authority’s Efforts – NY 1, May 2, 2017
- Battle Over Where to Put Sanitation Garages Reaches East Harlem – NY 1, April 20, 2017
- City Using East Harlem as ‘Dumping Ground’ for Sanitation Site, Locals Say – DNAinfo, April 20, 2017
- State Senate Takes Aim at Plastic Bag Fee in New York City – New York Times, January 18, 2017
- NYS lawmakers pushing to block NYC’s plastic bag tax – WABC, January 15, 2017
- Water at New York City Schools Will Be Retested for Lead – New York Times, December 19, 2016
- Time to lead on lead: No more NYCHA excuses – New York Daily News, October 31, 2016
- What does New York do with all its trash? One city’s waste – in numbers – The Guardian, October 27, 2016
- NYC water tests from the last four years show increased rates of lead that exceed 15 ppb – Progress Queens, September 30, 2016
- Rats are Plaguing the Jefferson Houses – The Uptowner, September 27, 2016
- Skeptics Say City’s Environmental Studies Understate Damage from Development – City Limits, September 26, 2016
- New FOIL data from NYCHA reveals borough distribution of asbestos tests – Progress Queens, August 22, 2016
- $360 Million Upgrades Coming to Sewage Treatment Plants After 2011 Fire – DNAinfo, August 3, 2016
- Harlem River Still ‘Impaired’ After Decades Of Improvement, Report Says – DNAinfo, June 19, 2016
- Feds probing questionable NYCHA statistics on lead tainted apartments – New York Daily News, June 12, 2016
- A Timeline Of Trash Lives On In The Sanitation Department’s East Harlem Warehouse – CBS, April 5, 2016
- De Blasio Housing Authority Head Says Preet Bharara’s Probe Goes Way Beyond Lead – Observer, March 28, 2016
- More than 200 children in NYCHA homes test positive for high levels of lead – New York Daily News, March 28, 2016
- U.S. Inquiry Into New York’s Housing Authority Is ‘Very Expansive,’ Its Chief Says – New York Times, March 18, 2016
- U.S. Department of Justice investigating blood lead levels in New York’s public housing – The Guardian, March 17, 2016
- East Harlem residents blast de Blasio administration plan to move sanitation garage – New York Daily News, March 10, 2016
- ‘NYCHA is the city’s worst landlord’: Survey shows public housing tenants wait years for repairs to rotting, mold-infested apartments – New York Daily News, March 3, 2016
- When it comes to environmental justice, communities know best – Mott haven Herald, February 22, 2016
- City Ignores Concerns about Proposed Sanitation Garage, Residents Say – DNAinfo, February 18, 2016
- NYCHA Program to Streamline Maintenance Requests Leaves Pile of Trash – DNAinfo, January 8, 2016
- Judge to Appoint Monitor for Mold Repairs in New York Public Housing – New York Times, December 16, 2015
- NYC councilman pushing mandatory air quality tests near garbage stations through new bill – New York Daily News, November 10, 2015
- De Blasio, Mark-Viverito meet with foes of FreshDirect – Capital New York, November 10, 2015
- South Bronx Unite Meets with Mayor de Blasio and Speaker Mark-Viverito to Discuss Environmental and Health Crisis, Including FreshDirect – SBU, October 13, 2015
- Lincoln Hospital doctor who treated Legionnaires’ patients says he was fired for testing drinking water at patients’ homes – New York Daily News, October 9, 2015
- 7 Sick With Legionnaires’ Disease in Second Bronx Outbreak, Officials Say – DNAinfo, September 28, 2015
- Kids Struggle to Breathe in This Neighborhood on Pope’s Tour – National Geographic, September 24, 2015
- Green Space and Health Linked in Vision for South Bronx – Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2015
- Bicycles, Breathing and Bridges: A Toxic Trio? – WNYC, September 10, 2015
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