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The Future of Gifted Education in the Bronx Bronx acupuncture center for addiction fighting to survive How HIV outreach is tackling an “invisible crisis” in The Bronx Prescriptions lag as Bronx battles opioid epidemic
 

The Future of Gifted Education in the Bronx

A recommendation that Mayor Bill de Blasio phase out all New York City gifted programs has left the fate of gifted education in the Bronx uncertain. If implemented, the programs, which are comprised predominantly of black and Latino students, would come to an end.

Bronx acupuncture center for addiction fighting to survive

The Mott Haven Lincoln Recovery Center was once a popular therapeutic refuge for drug addicts, but where have the patients gone?

How HIV outreach is tackling an “invisible crisis” in The Bronx

While New York celebrates declining HIV rates, healthcare advocates in the Bronx narrow their focus to where services aren’t reaching people.

Prescriptions lag as Bronx battles opioid epidemic

Prescriptions of life-saving buprenorphine lag in the Bronx. A legacy of bureaucracy and stigma are to blame.

Families Suffer Under City-Led Housing Subsidy

22 October 2019

Laura Collar fidgeted in place outside the fourth-floor courtroom in the Bronx Housing court on a Friday morning in September. The 34-year-old tenant waited to inform her landlord’s lawyer that she’d been granted another 12 days extension before they evict her from the Morris Heights apartment in the West Bronx where she lives with her […]

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Behind the Badge

22 October 2019

It takes a “weird personality” to be a New York City Marshal.

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Bronx Tops Charts in Heat and Hot Water Complaints

Bronx Tops Charts in Heat and Hot Water Complaints

22 October 2019

October begins the official eight-month “heat season,” in the city, when the city requires landlords to maintain indoor temperatures at 68 degrees during the day when it’s 55 degrees outside, and 62 degrees at night, regardless of the outside temperature. Last year, the Bronx recorded the most housing code complaints per capita of any other […]

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HP Actions Debatable Recourse for Landlords and Tenants

22 October 2019

Mice, roaches, leaking pipes, and bulging walls — one of these alone could be a tenant’s nightmare. Andrea Daniels, a long-time Bronx resident, lives with all of them. Daniels has lived in her rent-regulated Mott Haven apartment for 16 years. When she needed repairs to her apartment, Daniels put in requests with her landlord. But […]

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Leveling the Legal Playing Field: Tenants Fight for Homes with the Help of Right to Counsel

22 October 2019

More than half of eligible tenants at the Bronx Housing Court don't know they qualify for a free lawyer, but whether they face rent disputes or maintenance failures — a lawyer gives a tenant a voice in the outcome.

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The Door of Angel DeJesus's Mt. Hope Apartment

Without Legal Aid, Bronx Residents Are Lost at Housing Court

22 October 2019

Angel DeJesus was certain that the pictures of the black mold growing on the ceiling of his apartment, or the massive holes in the walls would make the Housing Court reverse the eviction that left him and his family out on the street.  But the lack of legal aid resources in the Bronx, coupled with […]

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Finding a Place in New York with a Rental Voucher

22 October 2019

In New York City's market only 2% of studios and 3% of three-bedroom apartments are in the price range established by the voucher CityFHEPS

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A-Z of Common Housing Court Terms

17 October 2019

The most common housing jargon BronxInk came across in court.

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