Above right image from WNBC, below photograph of 58 Remsen Street from the Daily News Yesterday we mentioned that a cache of weapons - including a number of pipe bombs - were found in a Remsen Street apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Now it turns out the apartment was shared by an ex-con and a professor at Columbia University! Ivaylo Ivanov got the attention of police around 1AM yesterday morning, claiming he was shot in......

For better or worse, talk of NYPD detective James Zadroga's death continues to linger. For the past two weeks, the family of Zadroga, who worked hours of rescue and recovery at the pit after the September 11 attacks, and the city's medical examiner's office have been disagreeing about Zadroga's cause of death. Now Mayor Bloomberg has stepped into the fray, discrediting Zadroga's hero status. Two medical experts have supported the family's believe that Zadroga's death......

After receiving a dispensation from city officials last month to remain open until the end of their traditional season, the Red Hook Ball Field vendors are serving up their South and Central American and Mexican fare today and tomorrow for the last time this year. Whether they will return next spring is an open question. This summer the Parks Dept. proposed opening bidding for vending concessions at the fields, which would push most of the......

Earlier this week, Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health released a study that shows New Yorkers who "reside in densely populated, pedestrian-friendly areas have significantly lower body mass index levels compared to other New Yorkers." In other words, those people who rely on their feet, rather than other New Yorkers who live in the more spacious parts of the outer boroughs, tend to be thinner. The study also implies that living near mass transit......

Columbia University released some more results from its World Trade Center Evacuation Study, and the Daily News translates the findings' recommendation as "Don't wait, don't ask, just go." We found this slide from a presentation (here's the PDF) Mailman School of Public Health Principal Researcher Robyn Gershon gave that has stats on what 2000 people did before leaving the World Trade Center - and many of them waited a few minutes before actually leaving......

Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health says that your daily subway commute can be hazardous to your hearing. Dr. Robyn Gershon announced the findings of a study which found that noise from the platform and inside cars exceeds safe limits. We suppose that listening to intense jackhammering and construction while waiting for weekend subway service also puts us at risk. Here's some interesting news from the study:Average and maximum noise measurements were made using......

- High school students slash each other on the Upper West Side, and local residents and business owners confirm that the kids are scary - The Brian Lehrer Show on the need for more public accountability from city agencies like the MTA - The tourist kids who threw paint cans at the police in Midtown were reprimanded by Virginia high school (one was expelled)... - ...and the Bronx high school kids finally got to......

Numbing the Pain We mentioned yesterday that teens most affected by the 9/11 attacks drank and smoked more than their peers after that day. The study, conducted by Columbia's School of Public Health, said that high school students directly exposed to the tragedy were almost twice as likely to abuse booze and cigarettes than those not “severely” affected. But the trend was also seen in firemen who worked at the site, showing a 30% increase......

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[Ed: Gothamist is happy to introduce Jay Parkinson, in his first weekly post about NYC health issues. He practices Pediatrics in a large hospital in downtown Manhattan and is pursuing a career in Public Health making sure that all the children of the world get their shots. Plus, he has a photoblog.] The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene released a warning yesterday saying two New Yorkers have been diagnosed with a......

A more reason why people who live in NYC put up with living in NYC: Quite frankly, living in the suburbs can make you sick. Or at least that's the implication from a study the Rand Corporation did. The study found that "suburban sprawl is linked to the incidence of many chronic health ailments," such as high blood pressure, arthritis, headaches and breathing difficulties. Roland Sturm, a Rand economist, said, "This is the first study......

A study in Denmark says that if you have more 14 or more drinks a week, you raise your risk of rectal cancer. "But what a person drinks does have some influence on risk, the authors note, for people who included wine in their menu of alcoholic beverages had a lesser increase in risk than those who stuck mainly with beer and spirits." They also reason that heavy drinkers ought to lower their intake anyway.......

The Transit Transport Workers Union is telling its subway conductors and workers to "cut and run" in the event of a terrorist event (chemical, biological, etc.) according to the Daily News: "What they expect our members to do in the event of a nuclear, biological or chemical incident would be to ... get out of your cab and leave the public behind," said Jimmy Willis, the union assistant to the president. "My question to them......