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The Struggle to Stay Healthy in the Bronx: Wendy's Story
As part of our Prescription for the Bronx project, WNYC asked photographers at the Bronx Documentary Center to tell stories about health in their own communities BY photographing Bronx residents with...
View ArticleWho Will Heal the Bronx?
Try to hold these conflicting ideas in your head, because they are both true: The Bronx is thriving. The Bronx is ailing.For decades, the Bronx was most famous for burning. But now, it's turning...
View ArticleThe Revolutionaries Who Rescued a Hospital
In 1970, Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx was one of the worst in the city. The building was falling apart. Children were getting lead poisoning while hospitalized there. There were rats in the...
View ArticleHome Health Aide Industry in Flux
The Bronx is home to a huge number of home health care aides. As WNYC focuses on health care in the Bronx this week, Carol Rodat, New York policy director for PHI PolicyWorks, Ancil Alexander, a peer...
View ArticleOne Hospital Tells Bronx's Sick: You Call Us, We’ll Call You
Stephen Esan is trying to decide if he should go to the emergency department. He’s 40 years old and suffers from congestive heart failure and end-stage renal disease. He has to go to dialysis three...
View ArticleTake This Apartment and Call Me in the Morning
Lissette Encarnacion lives at The Brook, but she used to live under a bridge beside the Gowanus Canal.Encarnacion has had a tough life. For a while though, most things were great — she was married, had...
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When Jean Met Sonia
As part of our Prescription for the Bronx project, WNYC asked photographers at the Bronx Documentary Center to tell stories about health in their own communities by photographing Bronx residents with...
View ArticleSupportive Housing as Healthcare
As part of WNYC's series exploring health and healthcare in The Bronx, which was recently named the least healthy county in New York State, WNYC reporterAmanda Aronczyk explores whether housing should...
View ArticleThe Bronx's Weight Problem
Two out of three Bronx residents are either obese or overweight. But the borough is not a food desert — in almost all of the Bronx, you can get food within a mile of your home. But it turns out that...
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When Bingo Is More Than a Game
As part of our Prescription for the Bronx project, WNYC asked photographers at the Bronx Documentary Center to tell stories about health in their own communities by photographing Bronx residents with...
View ArticleMeet the City's Health Commish
After her first few months on the job, Dr. Mary Bassett, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, discusses the health department's priorities, including reducing...
View ArticleWill These Ninth Graders Make the Bronx Healthier?
The Health, Education and Research Occupations High School — HERO High — is in the South Bronx, an area with some of the worst health outcomes in the state. But educators want to help change that....
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