Mark Levine
New York City
What’s safe now? A City Councilman tries to answer.
Mark Levine, the Health Committee chairman, releases a guide on the risks of different activities.
Kirsten Gillbrand
The hardest names to pronounce in NY politics
The hardest names to pronounce in New York politics.
Manhattan
Mark Levine has 1.7 million handshakes to go
The New York City councilman wants to meet every Manhattanite during his run for borough president.
New York City
Who’s for and against banning menthol cigarettes in New York City
It’s Al Sharpton vs. the NAACP, with Corey Johnson stuck in the middle.
New York City
Mark Levine wants to bail out taxi drivers
"Those folks got the carpet pulled out from under them.”
New York City
New York City taxi drivers need debt relief, but not from taxpayers
A New York City Council bill that likely will include public money to pay off taxi medallion owner debts would set a bad precedent. The city does have a role, though, in helping to facilitate the collective private-sector action that will get lenders to negotiate, writes Nicole Gelinas.
New York City
What do you do if you’re not allowed to buy insurance?
What do you do if you’re not allowed to buy health coverage?
New York City
How New York could respond to the taxi medallion lending crisis
Since Sunday, when the New York Times investigation into predatory lending practices for taxi medallions was published, calls for action sprang forth from elected officials, but the proposals wouldn’t necessarily help cabbies who already lost everything.
New York State
No state Senate single-payer vote before 2020
New York won’t be passing a state-level single-payer health care system this year, but that hasn’t kept the sparks from flying as proponents clash with industry critics who say such a proposal is unworkable.
New York City
New York City to pass water tank reforms
In a rebuke of city health officials, the New York City Council plans to pass seven new laws tightening oversight and regulation of thousands of rooftop drinking water tanks, citing evidence of contamination, widespread neglect, and lax oversight by agency officials.
Mark Levine
Mark Levine on marijuana, e-cigarettes and the need to vaccinate
Mark Levine, New York City Council Health Committee chairman discusses marijuana, e-cigarettes, and the importance of vaccinations.
New York City
NYC failed to enforce water tank law, council health chair finds
After neglect in New York City water tank inspection was exposed, seven reform bills weighed.
New York City
Updated: Categorizing the candidates to be NYC’s next public advocate
Categorizing the candidates to be New York City’s next public advocate.
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Health Care
Public health is more than just doctors and hospitals
Key New York City officials on the social determinants of health, community-based nonprofits and medical care in the Trump era.
Corey Johnson
Bellevue homeless shelter’s neglected water tank
Homeless men at Bellevue homeless shelter were being served drinking water from a neglected wooden water tank that, until a few days ago, had never been cleaned, inspected or tested – in violation of city law and the health code.
NYCHA
Council speaker calls emergency meeting on NYCHA’s water tanks
New York City elected officials and tenants’ advocates denounced the deteriorating condition of the rooftop water tanks that supply drinking water to New York City Housing Authority tenants, following a report by City & State which revealed dozens of cases of contamination – including birds, rodents, and insects in the tanks – that were never reported to city health officials, as the law requires.
New York City
DOI to investigate 'city’s failure' on water tanks
Councilman Torres to trigger official investigation of the city’s rooftop drinking water tanks, while he and Levine craft legislative response.
New York City
Lawmakers criticize city for water tank neglect
Mark Levine, Ritchie Torres and Corey Johnson list fixes for “broken” drinking water oversight
Corey Johnson
NYC looks to San Francisco as a model for universal health care
New York City officials are looking at implementing single-payer health care, although the model they're looking at is San Francisco, which enacted a program that is actually neither a single-payer system nor health insurance but rather universal access to health care.
Mathieu Eugene
