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In Parkchester and Clason Point, there were 106 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 26.4 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide). [21]: 11 Parkchester and Clason Point has a relatively average population of residents who are uninsured. In 2018, this ...
District 87 is located in The Bronx, comprising portions of Parkchester, West Farms and Castle Hill. A portion of Bronx Park , containing the Bronx Zoo , is within this district. Recent election results
Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) called on the city to stop treating his home borough like “a dumping ground” for shelters, as the Adams administration prepares to move thousands of migrant ...
Bxnews.net posts news from the four newspapers that make up the Bronx group of Hagedorn Communications publications. Bronx News is mailed to subscribers and is sold on news stands. At 35 cents, it remains the least expensive of the Bronx weeklies. Parkchester News is the only newspaper delivered to all the residents within the Parkchester ...
Between 2011 and 2021, the share of South Bronx households below the federal poverty line declined from about 39.7% to 36.3%, according to a New York State Comptroller report on the South Bronx ...
Governor Cuomo endorsed Crowley, as did both of New York's U.S. Senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, as well as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, 11 U.S. Representatives, 31 local elected officials, 31 trade unions, and groups such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the Working Families Party, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Moms ...
After New York Mayor Eric Adams announced plans for a 2,000-bed migrant shelter in the Bronx, Rep. Ritchie Torres slammed the decision, accusing Adams of creating an immigrant “dumping ground."
Parkchester is a low income neighborhood on the fringe of the socioeconomic South Bronx. Although the neighborhood has a lower poverty rate in comparison, poverty is still significant in the area. Between 30-40% of the population lives in poverty according to the US census in the tracts that make up Parkchester. Significant by any standard.