Staying Alive
Public health in a city that might be trying to kill you.
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After a Bruising, Freezing Month, the Nurses Strike Is Ending
Nurses have seemingly won agreements that will give them a lot, but not all, of what they were after.
Doctors-in-Training Picket With Nurses as Strike Enters Third Week
"As a resident really nothing you do is possible without the nurses that you work with."
As Hospital Bosses Drag Their Feet, Bernie and Zohran Give Striking Nurses a Lift
Mayor Mamdani and Senator Sanders braved the cold—briefly—to drop in on a picket line outside Mount Sinai West.
A Model for Mamdani's Affordable Grocery Stores Might Reside in Woodside
Connected Chef, a food nonprofit, just opened a market with fresh groceries on a sliding scale.
Manhattan's Anti-Trans School Sports Resolution Is Finally Dead
But why did Borough President Mark Levine just hand control of the council back to the people who backed it?
Will Your Insurance Company Cover Your COVID Booster?
Unlike Massachusetts and Connecticut, New York has not mandated that insurers cover the updated vaccine.
New Yorkers Are Scrambling to Get a COVID Booster This Year: 'It's All These Hoops We Have to Go Through'
Thanks to RFK Jr.'s new restrictions, you may have a tougher time getting a COVID vaccine. Here are your options.
Adams Administration Will Close NYC's Last Remaining Free COVID Testing Site
The closure of the rapid testing site in Crown Heights marks the end of an era in New York—not the end of COVID, but of the City's official effort to detect and contain it.
I Walked Around NYC With a Luigi Mangione T-Shirt And This Is How That Went
"He took a stand and was sacrificial, obviously, of himself and someone else—which was not—again, I don't condone murder, right? And it doesn't hurt that he's so hot."
Fighting Transphobia Every Month at Manhattan's District 2 Community Education Council Meeting
A local parent's advisory body passed an unpopular anti-trans resolution. A year later, the movement to repeal it is big and beautiful.
Mount Sinai Has Also Been Canceling Gender-Affirming Care Appointments for Trans Youth, According to Parents
The hospital network, citing the ‘political climate,’ began canceling consultations for gender-affirming surgeries for minors in December, parents said.