Jun. 9, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen The SUNY Downstate Community Advisory Board has proposed a plan to keep the at-risk hospital open with the help of a $1 billion investment from the state. The nine-member board has spent six months analyzing the hospital’s finances, programs, capital needs, and the healthcare needs of its community,…
Jun. 9, 2025 By Megan McGibney Brooklyn residents and leaders from the business, nonprofit, higher education and political sectors gathered last week to tackle a pressing question: What policy ideas can make Brooklyn more affordable and better positioned for future growth? The symposium, held at NYU Tandon School of Engineering at MetroTech Center, was based…
Jun. 5, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen In 1988, the year the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps was founded, locals were regularly forced to wait for half an hour for an ambulance to arrive during a medical emergency. “Brooklyn in the 80s, it was the middle of the AIDS epidemic, the crack epidemic, and Bed-Stuy residents…
Jun. 4, 2025 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil A series of upcoming blood drives in Brooklyn could be a lifeline for New York’s dangerously low blood supply, as the New York Blood Center on Monday declared a blood emergency following a sharp drop in local donations. With less than a one-to-two-day supply of critical blood…
May. 20, 2025 By Arthur de Gaeta NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health is marking a milestone this month: the one-year anniversary of “26 Minutes with Dr. Warren Seigel,” a local health talk show that has quickly become a staple of community-based medical storytelling and education. Since launching last year, the show has recorded…
May. 7, 2025 By Regina Martinez Bradley Gifford grew up in a food desert in Fort Greene, where cheap, convenient meals were the norm and healthy options were scarce. As a child, he struggled with high blood pressure and obesity, often starting his mornings with one of his favorite foods — Quaker’s instant peaches-and-cream…
Apr. 30, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann After performances in Indiana, Florida, and New Jersey, the new play “axes, herbs, and satchels: open the archives” is now on tour in New York City. The play, by theater group The Anthropologist, addresses the Black and Brown maternal mortality crisis while unearthing the erased history of Black…
Apr. 30, 2025 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil More than 130 passionate cancer advocates, including survivors, patients, and caregivers, converged on the state Capitol Tuesday for Cancer Action Day, an annual event hosted by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). Armed with personal stories and powerful messages, they met with state lawmakers,…
Mar. 24, 2025 By Dean Moses Mourning families gathered in Cobble Hill on Sunday to mark the five-year anniversary of COVID-19 and advocate for accountability in the wake of pandemic nursing home deaths. Surrounded by political candidates from across the spectrum, families stood united in their opposition to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of…
Mar. 21, 2025 By Lauren Rapp One morning, Bay Ridge resident Zak Turner noticed his computer screen at work looked blurry. He figured it might be time for glasses. What happened next was something he never expected. Months after first experiencing blurry vision, Turner, 25 at the time, sat beside his girlfriend — now…