Though the level of lung-aggravating particulate matter in NYC air has mostly declined, air over the Cross Bronx Expressway still contains high levels of PM 2.5. We wrote about how this affects resident health, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

thecity.nyc/2020/9/28/2149… Preliminary research suggests exposure to air pollution is associated with higher COVID-19 death rates. Nationally, this link is most apparent in The Bronx, according to a new peer-reviewed study out of SUNY’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry and ProPublica.

OMG I TOOK A CLASS JESS KRUG TAUGHT ONCE vscjkvkfbklsbkdfscda was trying to remember where I knew her from lmao

The fact that the findings on U.S. journalism that came out of the Kerner Commission — convened to examine the unrest happening in American cities in the 60s — are still relevant more than 50 years later is massively disappointing:

historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6553/ (Journalists: Can we please keep this in mind as we report on what's happening in our cities? Will we refuse to "uncritically accept" and publish information we can't vet independently, like damage estimates? How hard are we gonna work to get the literal receipts?)

Twice I've applied for — and been denied — a NYPD press pass. I still don't understand why the police department is responsible for credentialing journalists.

https://twitter.com/ClaytonGuse/status/1268196423444639744

Protests are intense for virtually every reporter at this point, but it worries me that I could be out trying to do the work and have problems with the police because of this.

Three days after posting this, Amber Isaac, 26, died during delivery.

Her partner said she raised concerns about her care with doctors for weeks. Among them: She learned she was high-risk in February, he said, but she didn't have any office visits in March because of COVID-19.

https://twitter.com/Radieux_Rose/status/1251153973886676994

Doctors opted to hold video calls in place of those office visits that month, her partner said. He told THE CITY was not sure whether she had any bloodwork done in March.

Amber "knew she needed to be seen," though, and called and emailed doctors for an in-person visit, he said.

In no other NYC borough are residents more likely to die from COVID-19 than in The Bronx, where those infected have died at a rate double that of the city, @THECITYNY's analysis of city data shows. New from @annjychoi + me, with help from @yoavgonen:

thecity.nyc/2020/04/bronx-… Of the confirmed cases, those who've contracted COVID-19 here die at a rate 3X higher than those who live in Manhattan. Public health experts say it’s likely The Bronx’s elevated death rate is connected to the borough’s high rates of diabetes, asthma & hypertension.

INBOX: Effective immediately, the state Office of Court Administration has imposed a one week moratorium on evictions in NYC This is from a Friday memo to state court personnel from Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence K. Marks.

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Y'all I lost my monthly metrocard whoever has cursed me, please stop. I have learned my lesson

excuse me, ORANGEADE is the best-selling Snapple flavor in the Bronx? we need a recount ASAP @Snapple

https://twitter.com/LongIslandPress/status/1161261701355974656

A gift from @JMartinezNYC (purchased in Manhattan, of course)

my building caught fire last night i am exhausted and disoriented but fine

At @rubendiazjr's hearing tn on the mayor's jail plan. @CrimJusticeNYC is in the building, as is the CEO of Diego Beekman, which sued the city regarding the proposal. @nonewjails_nyc and @JustLeadersUSA are here too, along with Rev. Wendy Calderon of @BronxConnect, among others. The BP says he hopes to hear from every person here who wants to speak. Started exactly on time (thank you) anticipating a long list of speakers.

.@MrMikeBlake is at CB 1's jail vote meeting tonight. He opposes the city's current plan to put a jail in Mott Haven, suggesting the city first see the results of criminal justice reforms passed on Albany this year. He's now going back and forth with people in the audience. My hand is a little shaky, sorry, but here y'all go

In an email with the subject line “Problems with our Local Councilmember,” a Banana Kelly executive said a Bronx elected was “actively seeking" to rescind his approval of $90k in funds for a tenant-organizing program. Employees there had recently participated in a zoning protest.

https://twitter.com/Jere_Hester/status/1126102214852976641

Councilmember Salamanca says the allegation is not true, that "there was no threat of removing funding."

In a statement to @THECITYNY, the @BrooklynDA's office said: "We are fully committed to holding these defendants accountable by vigorously pursuing the charges in this case that can be proven with independent and reliable evidence... 1/

https://twitter.com/AshAgony/status/1103386778357108737

@THECITYNY @BrooklynDA "We believe--as the newly-created statute recognizes--that any sexual conduct between police officers and a person in their custody should constitute a crime. However, that was not the law at the time of the incident.... 2/

I'm at Bronx Borough President @rubendiazjr's State of the Borough Address today, follow along with me? Diaz is expected to announce the founding of "Camp Junior" today. The free program, developed by his office, the Fresh Air Fund, and the NYS parks dept, will bring 100s of BX kids upstate each summer, the BP's office says, and activities will include an anti-violence curriculum.

I went to see a nyc apartment and the bathroom sink was IN THE SHOWER in it!

Hi please keep all k***e w**t tweets off my timeline Before you ask, yes, he is muted

please keep sending me that video of that guy smashing that bus, it gets better with each watch My Christmas gift to y'all: amp.gothamist.com/amp/articles/c…

I don't have a very articulate or arresting way of saying this, but I'm so sad about this #MercyHospital shooting (This isn't about me covering it as a journalist, that's actually my job)